Thursday Photo Challenge --- Hard

This sculpture recently showed up on the corner of a house in my neighborhood.  

I am linking this post to the Thursday Photo Challenge.
 The theme this week is "Hard" 

To join the fun or check out others interpretation of the word hard, click here.

Country come to town..........

While taking a short cut accross town I happen to go down this street.  Snapped this shot from my car so it is not the best photography but, it does include four things you normally do not find in our small town, plus one hidden surprise. Blow up the shot and see if you can find them.  

Flutter Byes

      Since moving into my current house I have been planting flowers that attract butterflys.

                     I finally managed to get a decent photo of one of the butterflys.  

Cheering for the Blue Jays

      Passed this house while driving through town yesterday.  Given the decorations and the street full of parked cars I figured they were having a graduation party for one of the members of the Blue Jays, the local highschool sports teams.  With all the pom-poms it could have also been a cheerleader. 

Tractor Parade

  Annual Tractor Parade in Union, Missouri going past my daughters door.

Prickly

 Found this cactus bed hidding out behind my

 Aunt's barn in Eufaula, Alabama.   

Nuts

Our neighbor has a bald cypress tree in his back yard. 

Captured this shot of the trees nuts last fall.  

Pig in Mud

Pulled over to the side of the road to reset the GPS, and this muddy gal

 came to the fence and started to talk to us. 

Busted

  In a the small southern town of Eufaula, Alabama 

I captured this fantastic parking job.

God's Blessing

       I live across the street from this cemetary.

     Captured the rainbow after the storm.  

A sign of God's blessings 

Paintings on a wall

          Eureka Springs Arkansas 

Blowing Bubbles

My nephew practicing for the bubble blowing contest 

at the Town and Coutry Fair. 

Memoirs of better times.

                  Once lived in a peacefully setting that had a swing wtih a view. 

  Missing those times today. 

Eureka Springs. a step back in time.

                                                     Eureka Springs, Arkansas is a step back in time. 

Peek-a-boo I see you....

 While I was trying to photograph my nieces soccer game I caught my hubby

 peeking around a post trying to get a shot of me. 

Mural Wall

Today you get a two-fer.  Caught a young man, with his spray can, painting this mural of St. Louis on the wall of the combination thrift store and fireworks stand in Pacific, Missouri.  It took two shots to get the entire scene.

Night Sky

Shot taken from my back door.

The building in shadow is the Baptist Church 

Every Neighborhood.........

     Every neighborhood has one.

Icy Morning

  Given todays 90 degree heat thought I would share some icy trees

This was taken in my sisters back yard last winter

Beach Bum

     Del Mar, California 

2009

Shadow, Shadow....

I love shadows.  

This is one of my favorite shots taken in San Diego in 2009.  

Stairway to .......

Stairway to the lookout point at Bennett Springs State Park. 

Hoping for some lunch.

Captured this lovely guy watching us as we had lunch

 on the pier in San Francisco back in 2009.

Bald Eagle

Just 25 miles north of St. Louis on the Mississippi River, Alton, Ill., has become a winter home to the eagles.

Even the girls.....

Yes, here even girls cut hay. 

Lookout Peak at Branson, Mo.

View from the lookout point off highway 165 towards Branson, Missouri

What a difference time makes

             This is my grandson.  The photo was taken on his tenth birthday.

  He celebrated his 21st birthday this week.  How I miss that sweet boy.