Through The Eyes of Sisters, Topic: Close Up

This was a wonderful theme, I SO enjoyed it because my sister is right, it does kind of make you stop to look at things a little more closely.  Heids, who you will all know by now is a city girl found a fuzzy thingy in her garden and attacked it with a spade (don't you think that's kinda like shooting a goldfish with an oozy Heids?).  Turns out, that the fuzzy 'thing' morphed into something quite beautiful:

Heids, I love these flowers, we get them here too and in fact, I did a painting of them which I will have to take a photo of to share with you.  They smell beautiful too, don't they?  I want one in my garden!!!

I had fun with this theme, here is my photo:

These are of some fungi growing at the base of a birch tree in our garden.  They transported me back in time to when Heidi and I were little girls, we used to go into our garden and find a magical spot where fairies might live, and then make special fairy gardens for them with flowers and treasures and pebbles.  We had such fun doing it, and of course, grownups could never know!  So these look like little fairy steps up a tree, or balconies if you were to watch a fairy play, or maybe they are awnings, a place to hide from the rain!  From the top down . . .

Since I was crawling on the grass for different angles, here is one of a mushroom:

Isn't that sweet, I took another . . .

I am pretty sure you can't eat these mushrooms.  When you touch them or break them they bruise, as in they turn blue where ever it is you offended them, and then the blue turns to a reddy brown and then a dark yellow.  They are fascinating, good fairy magic in them I am sure!

These were taken while I was clearing up outside to prepare for Hurricane Irene, who blew through at a heck of a speed, never get in the way of a lady in a hurry that's for sure.  So while I was dismantling the trampoline, I took this:

That is my take on close up this week.  We survived the hurricane, only a broken window and some damaged trees (poor trees).  The weather is beautiful, it is a magical day here today - which reminds me, I need to go check on the fairies . . .