Lilies Dancing the Can-Can and Random Things You Didn't Know About Me Until Now

LILIES DANCING THE CAN-CAN

From a distance

the lilies of summer look like flames;

leaping, snapping, burning.

The flower beds are on fire!

Up close

they are flashy showgirl dames;

kicking, shouting, whirling,

objects of desire.

Petals become petticoats

lifted up for twirls and spins.

Pistils and stamens

are dancers' feet 

kicking out the can-can;

heels up,

 up, as high as their chins.




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My friend Paige has passed another award on to me,  because she is sweet like that.  She calls me one of her dear internets.  You have to like someone who calls you that!  She is also quite stylish, and she says I'm stylish too!  I don't know about me being stylish.  I'll just have to take her word for it.

I'm supposed to tell you seven things about myself and then pass this award on to someone else.  I may be stylish, but I don't always follow the rules.  I'm not choosing one or two bloggers to pass this on to, I'm choosing all of you over there in my blog list.  Those of you who are interested can take the award above and put it on your blogs and tell everyone that you are stylish.  You can even tell folks that Daisy said so, because I do!

As for seven things about me, I'm not sure what's left to tell that I haven't already blabbed about here on my blog, but here are seven random things about me.

1.  In college, I was required to take three phys. ed. classes.  The three I chose were aerobic dance, jazz dance, and yoga.  I liked the yoga class so much that I took advanced yoga too as an extra elective.

2.  My brother sent me a birthday card this year that had this picture on the cover.

On the inside it said, "Welcome to the 'One-Frikkin-Candle-on-the-Cake-is-Enough' Club!"  This card made me laugh, a lot!  My brother is very good at choosing cards that make me laugh.  I like that about him.

3.  My favorite flavor of Blizzard from Dairy Queen is Chocolate Xtreme (although I won't turn down a Georgia Mud Fudge Blizzard or a Reese's Cup Blizzard or just about any other flavor of Blizzard if someone offers it).

4.  I saw fat Elvis in the sky the other day.  No really, I did!  I know you don't believe me.  I took a picture to prove it to you, though.  See there he is.

Do you see him there?  What do you mean, you don't see him?  He's right there!  Oh, all right.  I made him bigger and drew lines around him so you could see him.  Here, maybe you can see him now.

OK, so I'm not very good at drawing Elvis, and it looked more like Elvis before I drew lines around him.  Hahahaha!  Welcome to my world.

5.  I've been enjoying seeing all the green of summer these days.  I'm trying to savor every moment of the summer with the green of the grass and the trees because I miss them so much in the grey and white of winter when it comes around.    I took this picture on a walk in the park just because I thought the green all around was so pretty.  The clouds in the sky caught my attention too.

Very peaceful looking, don't you think?  You can click on the picture to make it bigger, and then you can pretend like you're walking on that path with me.

6.  In the sixth grade I made a raised relief map of the state of Utah out of that homemade play-doh stuff kids make out of salt and flour and such.  What a nightmare that project was!  Lugging it in to school and home again on the bus was not much fun either because it had to be kept flat on the piece of cardboard that I built it on.  

7.  In biology class in high school, we had one whole section of our studies on identifying trees.  I really enjoyed that.  We also had to dissect a cat for that class.  I didn't enjoy that part of the class much.

Well, there you have it--seven random things about me.  If you have any random facts about yourself that you'd like to share, put them in the comments.  I know I'll enjoy reading them.