Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 79

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This week my 5 will be from the beautiful Duke Gardens!

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Last Saturday we took a little day trip down to Raleigh....some of you might remember we have found a taco shop there that makes Southern California Mexican food, which we miss. We left San Diego in 2001 and the Mexican food is what we miss most...it just isn't duplicated anywhere else.....nobody understands our plight...except for other transplanted Southern Californians.

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We had our lunch in Raleigh then back tracked to Durham and visited Duke University. Here we are at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens.

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I remember Tulips being my grandma's favorite.

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But honestly, I think of Camellias more when I think of my Grandma. She had several beautiful Camellia bushes...she also grew Tulips in her garden but the Camellias really stick out in my memory.

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I want to plant a whole bunch of Tulips here at our new house along the front porch in memory of my Grandma...maybe even a few Camellias in the backyard.

1 more shot from the gardens:

Your's truly and my husband Nick...tomorrow we will have been together for 34 years...that's when we started dating...in 10th grade! Crazy!

That's my 5 this week and I hope you will join in! It's easy, post 5 randoms, link back, visit others!! Thank you so much for visiting and playing along!


I am linking up with Cath's Fun Friday Favourites

Nancy's Random 5 Friday

And Denise's Today's Flowers

To visit the garden's website Click Here and they even have a blog right HERE!

Have a great weekend!!

Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 78

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My 5 are from Wednesday's track meet:

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The boys running hurdles

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Relay...Braden and Dalton both compete in this event but Braden starts and Dalton is in the last turn. Here he's handing off to his team mate Ethan.

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Good sportsmanship

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Chillin' (literally!) till the next event

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Another hurdle event. Braden and Dalton start at different times on this one. I think this is the 300 hurdles.

Braden and Dalton's school, Read Mountain Middle School, hosted James Madison Middle and Breckenridge Middle School (both of Roanoke City).

That's my 5 this week! I hope you will play along! Post 5 randoms, link back and visit others! Have a great weekend!!



I'm linking with Cath's Fun Friday Favourites

and Nancy's Random 5 Friday!

Rubbish Tuesday - Some Really Old Windows @ Colonial Williamsburg

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Don't you just love old windows? I do too!

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This is a serious door right?! I can't remember what this little building is. Must house something really important though!

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I like the white/black combo on old houses. When I was little my mom made my dad paint our house black/white. I think the actual color was charcoal. I just remembered that! I also remember my dad arguing with her about the color, but alas, our house became white/charcoal ;)

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Like a little fairy-tale cottage!

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I love the glossy magnolia. Don't worry TexWis, I have more fences to particpate in your Good Fences linky :)

I'm linking up with Roan's Rubbish Tuesday today. Post something old and link up too! CLICK HERE for more old stuff!

I also want to share with you that I will be starting the Random 5 Friday linky up this Friday. I'm calling it Willy-Nilly Friday 5 because I didn't want to totally copy Nancy's meme and I like the word "willy-nilly" :) So come along and link up, post 5 random errr willy-nilly things and have fun! Hopefully my linky will work. Never done this before! The link up should start Friday morning @ 12:01 and run through Sunday, fingers crossed!