Lucinda McQueen

@dahloo.bsky.social

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Artist, animal lover, gardener, book hoarder Posting our own photos and art for a pictorial diary... #cats #birds #gardening #drawing #fineart #photography

Closeup of a blue coon kitty lady under an ice-covered skylight.
Christmastime in the cabinet.
First 8" snowfall. Got the wreath up just in time.
Part of a large group of turkeys gathered in the backyard. T-Day's over & they're safe...
Blue coon kitty girl lying on her back with her tummy fur all a-fluff & toes upstanding…
Pictures of my parents on their wedding day in 1942 and of my Dad in his navy uniform before he left for the war in the Pacific.
Jasmine in full bloom on a sunny windowsill, a red geranium cutting growing roots & a small pot filled with cacti…
View of a room full of books, a pillow-laden, cranberry-colored sofa & a green painted “toy box”…
Brilliant orange/red Japanese Maple in the foreground and a green grass path out to the barn.
Sleeping blue coon kitty girl…
Carolina wren outside their grass roost box in the middle of the day. Perhaps they really do approve.
Early in the morning a Carolina wren couple is leaving their grass roost nest set up on the porch.
Family photo from 1940 of my Dad and his parents and Aunt relaxing in their side yard.
Japanese maple glowing orange…
Foliage on maples blazing & Mt Kearsarge peeking purple in the distance…
Dug up dahlias lying on a bed of hay and ready to be stored.
J’s garlic patch planted & covered in a deep bed of hay to over winter.
A jug full of wildly colorful dahlia blooms…
Blue Maine Coon girl kitty & a pitcher full of vibrant dahlias…
Pink David Austin rose bloom. Smells as delicious as it looks.
Brilliant dahlias in an old majolica vase.
Coon kitty curled in a ball in a comfy chair.
Spotted salamander back in her overwintering spot in our old, dirt & cement floored cellar. Happy 1st day of Fall!
View of porch corridor with baskets hung on the sides and pumpkins & squash gathering outside the multi-paned wooden door.
Colorful collection of dahlia blooms…
Brilliant fluffy-petalled, peach/pink dahlia bloom…
Brilliant dahlias in a green vase.
Sunflowers glowing against a brilliant blue sky...
Black bear lying in the grass & looking directly at me after he’d picked an apple off a tree.
"Our House..." drawing of a little stone house & a pink Land Rover 88 with J at the wheel and me grinning and our two cats Gretta & Piggy enjoying the ride.
Lovely yellow, green & black Black Swallowtail butterfly caterpillar munching on a dill plant.
Eye popping orange & red dahlia blossom…
Brilliant sunflower & stem of another one in the foreground.
Vegetable garden filled with tomatoes, squash, beans, sunflowers & more.
Mass of flowering perennials & potted annuals on a stone terrace with a Three Graces plaque hanging on the ell’s wall.
Front patch full of blossoming hydrangea, butterfly bushes, coneflowers, geraniums and petunias.
Bouquet of magenta dahlias in a fish pitcher on the mantel…
Coon Kitty girl Elgie half in the bag…
Tartan dahlia bloom…very frilly & fuchsia.
Elgie’s pink tongue peeking out while she’s napping after breakfast.
View of blooming pink brugmansia & antique well house sheltering tuberous begonias…
Closeup of flaming red coleus…
Pulled garlic resting on hay mulch.
Girl coon kitty Elgie is pointedly asking someone to play with her…now.
Large pink brugmansia bloom. Let the show begin.
A young couple with their 1961 soft top Land Rover 88 & little stone house rental in the background.
Closeup of our coon kitty girl Elgie…just her closed eyes, brick nose & little smile.
Flower border full of cone flowers, bee balm, daisies, lilies, “railroad pinks” & more…