The porch at Bloom is always a treat for the eye, as yellow brightens it and screams...SUMMER!!!
Brandon has been going crazy making pillows with old and new fabrics...TO DIE FOR...
especially displayed in this wonderful French wash tub painted the perfect grey...
His posies and artwork, always an inspiration, have the ladies pondering their own feats of decorating style...
I LOVE old tables with chippy old paint, so easy to pop in just any ol' place to harbor some special collection...or two!
Wonderful old table...it's HUGE and has great patina to boot...SO FUN...until...
I noticed as I left Sisters' the skies, again, where starting to show signs of approaching storms...so I hustled...
I was driving past Lone Tree, when I noticed this unusual cloud bank forming...
It was really growing fast, so I did the unthinkable...I sped up...for those who don't know me, I never speed, I'm always that person you wish you hadn't gotten behind...hey, I'm enjoying life already...
But these clouds were really taking shape fast and I knew I had a small window to get past them...in theory...
As I entered the town of Nichols, the home stretch, there was rotation starting to form over my head...so again I moved faster to get away from this mass cause it was clear toward Muscatine...NOT...
The storm had rotated 'round and was now chasing me...as I got to the turn off to go to the Candle Shed, the sky in front of me was...THE GATES OF HELL...
Talking to my daughter on the cell phone, she was oblivious to the storm. I told her that I wasn't sure I'd make it there.
No sooner than I got to the mall, the tornado sirens went off, so I immediately headed for home...
OMG...
wind and rains and high winds and TORRENTIAL RAINS...
AND WINDS...
Now I remember why Scratchy would not leave my side, begging me to come with, I just have to recognize which is a normal begging and which is serious...
This was a huge storm that battered it's way NE and charged it's way into the windy city causing much damage there too.
We were all glued to the weather channel, waiting for an all clear, as my cell phone lay in two inches of water outside my truck...
but it's still working...
WHEW...what a day and all is well at
The Pink Chateau...
only a few more gray hairs...
