Random 5 Friday

The prompt this week for the spring edition of Nurture Photography is splash/turquoise.  Not going to lie~turquoise was a hard color to find, so my colors range from green to turquoise to blue.

Beach Breezes

1.  I have been making soaps to prepare for the summer’s farmer’s market.  With a month to cure, I need to get several batches done soon.  The Beach Breezes and Pan’s Delight are both quite popular.

Pan’s Delight

2.  I am usually really good about naming kids.  I am.  This year, however, I still have six kids without names.  I’d welcome any suggestions for Sugar’s triplets (2 boys and a girl) and Litha’s triplets (2 boys and a girl).

Sugar’s kids~SOOC

3.  I am hosting a giveaway for a copy of my novel, Consent, on Goodreads.  There is a link on my sidebar near the top.  I think it gets you to the right place.  If not, let me know.  Just as an aside, if you’ve read my novel and like it and want to do a review at Amazon, I’d really appreciate it.

Litha and kids~SOOC

4.  We are supposed to have a couple of dry days and then more rain next week.  I’m really happy for the rain, but chores are killing me with the mud and having to haul the hay from the garage.  My body tells me I need to quit haying them, but the pasture really needs a good start before I can do that.

5.  I’ve been doing a lot of reading and research to do a sequel to my first novel while I’m waiting to get the second one back to edit.  I’m anxious to get back to the writing.  I wonder why on earth I waited so long before I started writing seriously.

While I’m  between novels, I’m also participating in NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month), where the goal is to write 30 poems in the month of April.  That’s got me thinking about putting together a book combining my poetry and photography.  Of course, none of today’s photos would make the cut.

SOOC

Along with Nurture Photography (Live and Love Out Loud, Project Alicia and Bumbles and Light)and Random 5 Friday, I’m linking this to SOOC Sunday and Camera Critters.

Rainbow SHS

This week for Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Ashley gave us the colors of the rainbow, or at least the first five colors.

Red:  I saw a picture on Facebook of an apple with a heart in it, so I decided to try it myself.  I do think I like mine better!

I also have had a cardinal out here all day, so I had to share his bright red color.  I kind of like the shadow from the fence post as well.

Orange: Lucy, my Toulousey Goosey has a lovely orange beak.  It amazes me with the orange around the eyes as well.

Lucy

Yellow:  This is the blossom from my airplane plant.

Green:  The evergreen bush is covered in snow and birds.

Although, a lot of the snow is melting.

Blue:  This one was hard until I realized I have a bright blue peacock.

I did also want to share that my Djali llama is feeling better after a round of antibiotics.  The swelling was likely an abscessed tooth, and we’ll probably try floating his teeth at some point, but they weren’t too bad, so it can wait until warmer weather.  Although, with the beautiful blue skies and lots of sunshine, today was pretty awesome!

Indigo:  Yeah right.  Nobody even really knows what indigo is.

Violet:  I was going to use this one of Snickers sleeping with his tongue stuck out for orange, but I noticed the violet color on the pillow.

Snickers

Hope you have a wonderful rainbow filled week!

Linking to Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Camera Critters, Macro Monday, Weekly Top Shot, Shadow Shot Sunday, Bird d’Pot, and Mosaic Monday.

Pretty Boy

I went for a wonderful walk this weekend, and I noticed the peafowl were enjoying their outdoor roosts with the beautiful weather.

Someone is an awfully handsome guy now that his tail is growing back in.  Okay, he’s handsome even when he doesn’t have his long tail feathers.

I love his bright blues in the sunshine.

Soon he’ll really start dancing for the girls, and I’m hoping to hatch some little ones this year.

Linking to Wild Bird Wednesday and Wordless Wednesday with Live and Love Out Loud, Project Alicia, Create With Joy and Sarah Halstead.