Celebrate America!

Thank you to all the men and women that make it possible.





Enjoy!

A Walk In My Garden

Please take a walk with me.

Walk with me on my garden's path and tell me more about you.



Do you dream in color?



 Do you hear the flowers sing?



Do you talk to nature?



Do you remember part of your childhood from a special scent in the garden?






Do you love the call of Mourning Doves?



I DO!

Thank you for your visit I so enjoyed your company!

Enjoy!

A Spring Spell

I am under a spell!

A beautiful magical spell!

A rebirth of friends that I grow closer to every year.



The hedge that surrounds the Kellio and welcomes at least one new birdie family each year.

The ferns that have a history
I fell in love with ferns in the woods at my Grandmother's just outside her house
My Mother transplanted many of these ferns to her home and
when I returned to live in Michigan over 20 years ago I transplanted ferns from her garden
then I moved to Northern Michigan and couldn't bear to be without my fern friends
so the I transplanted  about a dozen to my new home.
When I look at them a see the many generations of my life.



The explosion of the crabapple tree that shows off her beauty a little more each year.







The royal purple posies that are the first to arrive each year to announce the rites of spring!

I even welcome this pesky little fellow he provides tons of entertainment playing

Hide and Seek ...

wtih my BFF, Cutter, the best worst dog in the world.  

There are more celebrations to come and this girl is READY!

Thanks for visiting, wishing you a wonderful week!

Enjoy!

She Has a Name!

Everyone wants to know!

"Little Bit" and her Mommy want to know.

"3-D" wants to know.

Double Trouble a.k.a "3-D" and "Little Bit" are placing a little bet.

Even the newest filly born Tuesday, May 4.
(Her name was chosen before she
was born, meet "Athena")

But her Mama isn't going to let her get close enough to those older kids to place a bet.

Do you want to know?

I know who knows,

Willow knows because the name she suggested WON!

Introducing STARSHINE!

Thank you to all of you who took the time to vote on a name for this filly.

I'm sending Willow of My Irish Cottage Home this little bit of luck as a Thank You for her wonderful suggestion.

Look at how StarShine has grown

3 Days Old

12 Days Old

This girl loves to "Strike A Pose".

Thank you for visiting!

Wishing YOU a HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

with a little bit of HAPPY FEET!

Enjoy!

The Voting Begins

Everyone is getting to know each other at the farm

We are getting to know our newest filly who is

YET TO BE NAMED.

She is looking all over the place for her name but I told her she

only has to look at my blog and her name will be here.

You all have been so kind suggesting the cutest names!

Now let's vote!

Take another peek at the littlest lady on the farm.

What will her name be?

Pick your favorite and the winner will be annouced on Friday along with a little gift I will send to the person that suggested her new name. 

Here goes...drum roll please.....

1. Orange Blossom
2. Jill
3. Latte
4. Cappuccino
5. Snickers
6. Stella Rose
7. Tanya Rose
8. Little Star
9. Riley
10. Jordan
11. Sophie
12. Lily or Miss Lilly
13. Starshine
14. Rambling Rose
15. Larkspur
16. JustaBeauty
17. Chelsea
18. Calamity Jane

Thanks for visiting 

See Ya on Friday!

Enjoy!

Kelley

I Have A Dark Side

I have a DARK side.

I am a girly girl.

I am rarely out of jeans, boots and leather gloves.

A baseball cap is my best hairdo.

So when people step into my house they are pretty sure they have the wrong address.

This girly girl would never paint all her walls black.

She would never have such a formal foyer.

Well the good news it pretty much ends there.

And truth be told most of the furniture and accessories are second hand.

But a little black paint and faux marble makes it look so serious

.

When we moved into this house all the walls were white, not a chippy romantic white, a bright hospital white where surgery would have been possible. I guess the black is a bit of a rebellion, perhaps I went a little overboard in to other direction. Although I have never regretted it.

I laugh because my house is so much like my personality, at first I am rather reserved and careful

But the longer you get to know me, the crazy me and the very unconventional me shows up

Walk thru my house and as you get to the more personal rooms you see the silly unconventional me . My favorite pieces in the house tell a story and have had lives before living with me ( this is what Mr. Mars call DPS-Dead People Stuff) Almost all the furniture has been autographed by at least one dog. Most of the flat surfaces have at least one project started.

I try to be proper but it hardly ever works. It’s kinda like the joke about the little kid that says “nobody told not to shave the kitty”

Well no one told me not to bring the foals in the house. This little filly stopped by looking for her new name which so many of you have left suggestions. I plan to post all the names on Monday, I hope you stop by to vote and the winner will win a special little gift from me and the filly.

Have a PEACEFUL WEEKEND!

Enjoy!