Blooms in Autumn
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Heather talks about public tantrums (from kids) on today's Momversation.
- Bedtime, Leta lingering defiantly in the hallway. Jon: "If you want fart stories, you better get in bed RIGHT NOW."
- RIP Louis Mortimer Armstrong: http://bit.ly/1R4tv6
- Hugs and kisses to you, too! RT: @Monkey_Tree: @dooce he probably committed suicide because he was tired of LISTENING TO YOU WHINE.
1. Jaime said:
Lovely indeed. Wish we still had such beauty in Ontario. Its already gray and dreary.
Love the pics, inspiring.
2. JaneBond said:
Lilacs in October? Utah *IS* magic!
3. di said:
nice! always good to see color in fall... especially from new growth!
4. bee said:
as if your life doesn't seem magical enough already... :)
5. Lindsey said:
WhoooHoooo, I'm number 4 :)
Gorgeous flowers Miss Heather!
6. kEma said:
dooce,
be proud! Today you made one grouchy person smile..
smile
7. Sara said:
Wow, gorgeous! DC is gray and dreary right now...thanks for the color splash!
8. kim said:
gosh - i want a camera like that SO BAD! just awesome!!
9. aibee said:
I like the way you see things :)
10. perception said:
pretty pretty pretty. =)
11. Tamara said:
I just love seeing your photos everyday! I am glad though that it's not a giant nightmare-inducing bug today.
12. espressocrazedboy said:
[Insert generic comment complimenting photo here]
13. BigDumbHomo said:
That's pretty keen! Now if it only came in scratch and sniff.
14. annie said:
Just to add that the Da-da stuff is maddening, though allegedly it's easier for them to say (small comfort when I spend a good portion of the day pointing to self intoning ma-ma ma-ma MA-MA)
15. the mighty jimbo said:
flowers, babies, puppies...if it weren't for all the poop talk (and god, how i love the poop talk) i'd almost expect a dancing hamster next.
16. Gia said:
WOW! I am jealous. Ours only bloom in spring! And they smell soooo good.
Oh - and I haven't been able to get George Bush pantless out of my head. Thanks for the nightmare! ;)
17. Christi said:
The green leaves in the front are distracting. It looks like you had focus set to closest. I wish you'd have pulled them off or shot around them. Pretty flowers though.
18. Em said:
I am purple with envy! Do you also get lilacs in the spring there? I may need to move...
19. Sue said:
MMMM, I can almost smell them.....yummy picture :) Probably the single most wonderful scent in the world...next to a baby, that is...
20. Shiz said:
Terrific photograph.
And I agree about the pants hitting the shoes. You can tell so much from a well-dressed man.
Lastly, ANTM? LOVE it.
21. dooce said:
elizabeth, i took this photo two days ago. in the fall.
22. reenie said:
Beeeaautiful!
Bush with his pants down makes me laugh. Bush getting caught saying he didn't say something...funny...but - Clinton saying "I did have a relationship with Ms. Lewinski" and then the replays of "I did not have sexual relations with that woman - Ms. Lewinski" over and over and over.
HI-larious!
23. Elizabeth said:
Umm... why do people think this image is from Fall? This is from Spring or Summer. I know... I LIVE in Utah! It's raining buckets here right now and all the leaves are falling off the trees!! My family even owns lilacs... and they do not... I repeat... they do not bloom in Fall here in Utah. Hahaha ^_^
24. Brooke said:
I hope your comment is deleted, Kano.
25. TracyDee said:
Lilac is one of my favorite colors. Your picture made me smile as did the "da da" comments... :)
26. Antonia said:
I think the Da-da bit must be because she's a girl, and girls love their daddies like that. My son will say nothing but Ma-ma, all day long.
27. Ty said:
Elizabeth, her title says Autumn. I think that's why people think they are from fall...perhaps it's just a confused plant. Either way it's pretty!
28. gji said:
A politely, quiet begging for FOUR HOURS dog is wonderful! What you didn't want was the "snatch the food out of your hand" or "drool on the person with good food" begging dog that my neighbor has. Chuck is such a good dog!
29. Lexa said:
Enjoy your blooms Dooce - there is friggin two feet of snow here in Athabasca, Alberta Canada. Brrr...
30. anne said:
Trees often get "confused" in the fall and put out a few blooms. We've got pear and apple trees blooming up in the orchard where I work & forsythia does quite a lot of blooming in the fall. All of those species are best known as spring bloomers... kinda like this here lilac. I think it's hormonal. Really.
Nice picture.
31. tiffany said:
Dooce to self:
Hmmm... I don't have any recent pictures, and if I post an old one, people will think I'm a loser. I know! I post this one from summer and lie and tell everyone it's recent. No one will ever know because it's the internet and surely I have no readers in Utah, and surely no one has access to weather information. Stupid readers! I will fool them all! MuaHAHAAAAA.
(lovely fall pic btw. :-] )
32. Danika said:
*sigh* flowers in Autumn.. now that would be nice :)
Just how many people reading this are from Alberta? Raise hands now
33. Mo said:
Nice contrast.
(see how i try to sound like i know what i'm talking about)
I saw that male model thing too. It reminded me of the first time I saw the Telletubbies: "what the hell am I watching, no one will believe me about this, it is too f-ing surreal." I especially loved the parts where they all arrived "home" and immediately stripped down to their male model panties. I expected a pillow fight to break out any minute.
34. Mo said:
I totally expected all of the male models to have a pillow fight. I mean, what else do twenty men in their panties do to pass the time?
35. Lindsey said:
Just had to comment about your post: "Go Sox!!!!!" It was a long time coming, but we totally kicked some ass last night, all of New England is abuzz :)
P.S. I hope your poop was very enjoyable!
36. maryse said:
the redsox got rid of shit, you got rid of shit. all is well.
37. julie said:
Hormonal lilacs! i love it!
I wonder how hard it would be to get lilacs for a fall wedding... not that i'mg etting married this fall, or any fall, for that matter.. but i sure do love lilacs and i love the fall nearly as much
38. Karry said:
Ahh lilacs. They won't survive this far south. Probably the one plant aside from daffodils that I miss more than anything.
Back up in MI we had lilacs blooming from February all the way to October. Not unusual. Depends on the weather really - if there's a good cold snap and then it warms up, they think it's spring and time to bloom again.
Did I mention how much I miss them?
39. coolbeans said:
Pretty picture. Me likey. Even if you are cheating and posting old pictures as new ones. (Dooce is very tricky, Elizabeth. You have to stay on top of your game around here. Good on you.)
Anyway, I'm glad you're catching the quality horrible reality television. While you're watching the Reality TV For The Gay Men, I'm watching Reality TV For The Dirty Old Men.
Have you seen Laguna Beach on MTV? If not, DO NOT LOOK. It's a trap.
40. Gordon said:
Lovely picture and to Elizabeth, yes things do grow in the fall. God I hope so...I just planted 5 acres with grass seed for the horses.
While I am here, I made a bad comment a few days ago concerning a picture of Heather and Mr. Heather. Specifically, the comment was *barf* Since then I have gotten a hate mail. I AM SORRY!!! really! I AM SORRY!! I WILL NEVER EVER DO IT AGAIN!!
41. jenn said:
Beautiful picture Heather. I love it.
42. Carmen said:
I always love looking at the photos you take with that awesome camera!
Everytime i log on the internet (oh gee, I have to confess... I don't log on that much *hellfire and brimstone precede to rain down in torents on this heretic*) I come to your site. It is by far the best site on the internet (here, I commence groveling and extreme disregard for any shred of dignity I could possibly possess) Yay-yah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
43. Carmen said:
correction: procede, not precede...I think...
44. Daniel said:
Baseball makes me poo, too. And golf? Ugh! Pass the Charmin.
45. Suzy said:
People! They still have to win the World Series. Have we forgotten 1986?
46. Dani said:
Suzy~ I think people realize they have not won the world series but are excited by the fact that they came being down 3 games to winning and the simple fact that they beat NY.
Not once have I read that people are celebtrating a win of the world series.
47. Heatheranne said:
That's gorgeous. I don't see any blooms around central Ohio.
48. Moxie said:
This photo embodies the word HOPE to me.
Apparently no one told this lilac he couldn't bloom in fall.
49. Bob said:
Here Here, that's what we need, more people pooping on the Red Sox.
50. Michael said:
I think she was pooping with relief Bob. Sox win=Dooce wins.
I have a detailed account of the redsox craziness on campus at my site. Worth looking at if you're a red sox fan
51. Cory said:
Wow, you love "America's Next Top Model" -- a kindred spirit. Oh yeah, Sox suck. (Signed disgruntled, depressed, embarrassed NYC resident.)
52. Becca said:
Pretty flower.
53. Amber said:
Those are absolutely gorgeous.
54. Ashley said:
I love these photos of landscape and such... but I must say Leta pictures are the best!
55. Margi said:
You have the best comment section. It veers around to all sorts of different subjects. I get the most fun reading while drinking the first cup of coffee. . .gets the ol' brain going.
You have such gifts girl -- first with your eye for beauty which produces the best pictures I've ever seen. Ever. And I'm olllld. Secondly, the way you write...?? This may or may not be taken as a compliment by you but I think of you as your generation's Erma Bombeck.
Anyway -- all of this to say I don't care if you took this photo yesterday, three weeks ago, or last summer -- it's gorgeous.
56. Laurie said:
I was talking to a friend of mine today and she introduced me to a word that I knew you would find amusing.
The Peegasm (n). that sensation you get while peeing after you have been holding it for an extended period of time
57. Donna said:
Another Alberta "viewer" who is so glad that NO SHOVEL-ABLE SNOW HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST THREE DAYS. Don't care if the lilacs are this season, last season, behind green leaves or what - your pictures are always a treat.
58. Jeff said:
(Raises Hand) Another frozen Albertan. Seems like you have quite the fan base in Western Canada.
59. erin said:
pull the leaves off the branch for a better shot?
isn't that a little ridiculous if you consider that this photo is a celebration of nature(not to be too whitmanesque, here, or anything)?
60. Michelle said:
I am from Boston and HAVE to say this as blunt as it might be. The Red Sox made a lot of people shit their pants last night. Red Sox winning over the Yankees = wonderful laxative.
P.S. I hope Chuck got soem reward for waiting 4 hours for the muffin and not leaping up and taking it like my dog would have done.
61. Fish said:
Poop.
oh wait. that was last week.
Lilacs good. Red Sox good. Dog good. Canada good. Discussion about what flower grows where and when ... getting a bit tiresome (yawn).
62. moose said:
peegasm!
loving it.
63. Liz said:
I must say, I totally live for your site now-a-days. The photo every day is just so cool! I have a digital camera, and every so often I get a really good shot of something, but usually they're just mediocre... you should give some internet photography lessons!
64. Hannah said:
Am totally with you on the pants hitting the shoes thing.
65. julia said:
i wish montreal had lilacs in the fall. but the leaves here are magnificent. this is my first post though i've been following for a year and a half and i just want to say you're the best! it must be so strange, me knowing you quite well and you knowing me not at all... this doesn't matter with the flood of fanmail you receive on a regular basis, but i think we'd really grog. yes, i know, i'm a crazy person on the internet. a virtual stalker.
anyway, thank you for everything. it's meant a lot to me.
66. mimi said:
Why is it that you never take pictures at night, with a flash? I've heard this is an issue with the D70, but wanted to get it from the source.
67. amy said:
More praise for Chuck... My little Shih Tzu would not have politely sat there drooling. He would have sat there doing his funky little growl.. 'gggrrrr, don't you know who I AM?! grrr, I want that pop tart damn you.. Get your ass over here, GIVE me the pop tart... grrr, NOW!" The bugger IS king you know.
As for the disbelief over trees/shrubs/plants blooming, weird things happening over here in BC Canada too. Our awesome summer ended with the usual rains then a few weeks of glorious sun. Many of the plants got confused and started their spring bloom. Not complaining.
68. Katie said:
I heart Johnny Damon. Boy don't make me poop, though.
69. Lexa said:
Go Sox! - Okay I am Canadian but dammit - Go Sox! If the curse of Babe Ruth can be lifted then there is hope for the Oilers after Greztky yet...
70. A N N A said:
gorgeous picture. seriously.
71. Danika said:
Haha Lexa (guessing you're a fellow Albertan) but since the Oilers won a cup AFTER Gretzky I don't think HE is their curse. Maybe if we put a cup ring or Oiler coin under center ice we could get the cup again. :D
Why is it the picture looks even better on my Imac? WOW its like I'm looking through a blurry window when I see the pics on my work computer (Dell) and on my Imac its like it isn't even a picture but I'm looking directly at the flower....
72. Danika said:
Oh yeah and I wanted to mention I had to pee really badly this afternoon and when I finally did all I could think was "ahhh peegasm" I totally agree with and am now adding that word to my vocabulary!
73. kath said:
One of the comments from yesterday brought up the awful irony of GWB ads from google on your site. Is this true(I hadn't seen any)? What a horrible thought! Can't you veto certain kinds of advertisers when you sign up for google ads?
74. Kimberley said:
You know, since I have no more NHL, I have not shit since the fuckin season was supposed to start.
just kidding
75. Michael said:
Shelli and I are buying Leta a Sox hat... because its important to start them young.
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77. Exlax said:
Thanks for sharing your wonderful poop stories with us. Maybe you should try more fiber in your diet and less time taking pictures of trees that are as mixed up as most of the people on the Internet
78. Bob said:
More poop on the Red Sox