Ruby Tuesday

The star of today's Ruby Tuesday is none other than our adoring red friend who is strapped in this seatbelt and helping pilot.......

Grandbaby Lily's ride on plane!

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For my more discerning readers, how about a lovely red geranium whose petals have taken on the sheen of satin in the harsh afternoon sunlight.

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Who's Opening That Present?

Or....where did Lily Go?

I'm still going through the almost 1000 images my daughter and I took at Christmas and of course the color red is pretty prominent. I couldn't resist sharing these of little Lily today. Most of you know she is a huge Elmo fan. Here she is with her Christmas Eve hat and package. You would think she couldn't see what she was doing.
A little different angle shows her curls and those little hands diligently trying to get inside the wrap.
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Ruby Tuesday: Books

Last week Mary suggested we might post books for Ruby Tuesday this week. My Mom and I have collected old books for a long time. There is just something about them that makes you want to hold them and peruse the pages. Above are three that have a little bit of red in them. It's not a bright ruby red but rather a deep rich tone of almost burgandy. The one aspect that draws me to old books is often the graphics stamped into the bound covers as the one on top above. This book was copyrighted in 1885 and has the name of a young twelve year old girl inside. The green book with the American flag stamped on it has Mr. James H. Rhodes and October 10, 1917 written inside. The all red book is The Cloister and the Hearth, part one. It's a tale of the Middle Ages written before 1859. I've tried to capture the stamped feathers on the top left hand side of the cover.
Of course I have to include Ms. Lily with one of her new books she got for Christmas. Yes, it featured Elmo!

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Ruby Tuesday and Catching Up

My lovely daughter-in-law came Christmas day in her own Ruby slippers! Aren't they just gorgeous!!!!!
Hi everyone. Goodness sakes here it is January the 4th already and the days since Christmas and my last post are still somewhat of a blur. Our kids and grandkids were here for Christmas and then we followed them back to Virginia on their return home. My son and his wife left for a vacation in Cancun and we helped our daughter Cindy celebrate her 28th birthday on the 28th. On that day Hubs and I also celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary. We met in college on a blind date and have been together ever since. Then on the 29th we celebrated little Lily's 2nd birthday. It seems like yesterday that she first entered our world.
We have arrived back home and our Christmas tree still needs taken down and there's a couple inches of snow and it's still snowing outside.
Christmas has come and gone but since I haven't been able to share pics from the day I hope you'll understand as I share these rubies with you.
This is little Miss Lucy on her first Christmas! I think she is just the cutest!!! She is sitting in what was my little red chair my grandfather gave me when I was a little girl.

A face to fall in love with!

The pillow in the big rocker was soft and furry to feel and very Ruby!

Lily really did not want to sit still so this was a quick shot with the chair.

Another quick shot when Lily was at least near Lucy!

When the dresses were off and the Elmo PJ's on Lily much preferred Mommy tickling her with furry red Elmo hands!

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Thank Heaven For Little Girls - Take Two

Mellow Yellow Monday

I don't often get to post many pictures of my grandbabies so this week I have two more shots for Mellow Yellow Monday.

Lily is being quite mellow with her yellow sippy cup and Elmo blanket as she watching an Elmo movie on TV. Don't you just love those little curled feet!

Lucy being not so mellow with her 'sunny' disposition!

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Ruby Tuesday: An Elmo Christmas

It's that Ruby Tuesday time of the week when we post photos with a little bit of red or a lot of red. Now, I know Christmas is over but since I was away from my PC the last two weeks I missed out on posting Christmas Day photos of Granddaughter Lily. I wanted to share at least a couple of photos of her with you today since her Christmas was filled with lots of red! I was away last week and didn't see Mary's suggestion for red signs although there are a couple of signs (ok, tags) on Elmo's chair that have red in it!

Santa brought Lily a soft red giggling Elmo chair.
She had a nice soft place to sit and open her presents.

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