Day 42

A gorgeous sunset!

 No doubt, there are far more stunning locations to capture such a vivid, brilliant sunset but sometimes, "ya just gotta work with whatcha got"... :)

Earlier this evening as I was leaving the nursing home in Olathe, KS where my mom lives,

this is what I saw.....

Maybe someday there will be a sunset in some exotic location just waiting for me to capture it...

But for today, this is what I had to work with...

It truly is "Olathe" ("beautiful" in Native American)

Day 41
I love really old homes.
Even ones is such a sad state of deterioration. I always feel drawn to them....
Like they're beckoning to me..
I wish I knew the history of this old  house...One thing I do know, it's not a very inviting place. In fact, it reminds me of the "mean old neighbor lady" that chases little children out of her yard.
But I still like it!

I'm sure it was a beautiful home in it's day.

I didn't see one single "No Trespassing" sign so there was no hesitation on my part to climb on over the chain draped across the drive entrance. A No Trespassing sign probably isn't needed much around this place, in my opinion anyway. Just driving past the house you can feel the staring eyes of long ago peering out the windows at  passers by...no matter which way you look at it, I feel a sense of "I dare you to come closer."

Although I climbed over the chain I went no closer than my viewpoint in this photo.

Shortly after moving up North, while taking an evening walk, my husband and I did walk all around the house...I truly felt as if I was being watched...I've not been back on the property until today.

From what I hear, the house is supposedly going to be renovated but in the six years I've lived here, I've not seen any signs of it.

Stranger yet is through the Christmas season, whoever the owner is, they always put up a lit Christmas tree in one of the front windows...can you say EERIE...a 100 year old (I'd guess),vacant, abandoned, house with a lit Christmas tree in the window..a broken out window, at that!
Screams eerie if you ask me!

But, as strange as the lit Christmas tree is,  I think it's just as much the tree outside the house that gives the old place it's haunted feel!

I LOVE this big, old, gnarly tree!!!

Day 40

A good portion of my day today was spent catching up on my blog posts. I always manage to take a photo of something but the posting has become somewhat more challenging. I knew it would be if I let it go a day or two...That's just me...let something go and it's so hard to get back to it...I'm sure it's  not just me, probably most people would feel the same...My story (and I'm stickin' to it) is I've just been so unbelievably tired ever since I was sick. And with a day like today, I sure could've napped the day away. The house was quiet, rain falling outside, nice music playing ...for me, all these equal a lazy feeling day. AND I had the house all to myself (no baby "do-da" here with me today.) But, I didn't give in to the lazy feeling! There was enough blogging, housework and taxes to keep me busy for the entire day. And it was all calling out to done...

(housework and blogging, done!!! Taxes? Well, they're started! 

Earlier in the day my little, scruffy Daisy dog came to find me and was begging to go outside. When I got to the door to let her out I realized that Meadow, our Lab, was not right behind her as usual and was nowhere to be seen. I looked in the usual places...no big dog...hmmm, where could she be? I'd looked the house through...OK, time to look again! This time I didn't just peek around the living room doorway but walked all the way into the living room....and looky what I found...

mind you, this is not allowed and she knows it!

I'm guessing the lazy, rainy day was just too much for her and she couldn't resist such a comfy spot to enjoy her nap ...all the while listening to XM radio...

What a life!! Notice how she's not looking me in the eye? That's the guilt! I'm sure she was confused as to why I let her stay there a couple of extra minutes before ordering her down.

She just had no idea how cute she looked laying there on the sofa with guilt written all over her sweet face. I'm such a sucker for my four legged babies!