Bumblebee on Poppy Heart

If I was a bumblebee ... I'd choose a HEART poppy too!!!

Guest Heart Thursday #168

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -

A Place to Share YOUR Heart!

Happy Independence Day to my U.S. Friends!

Be Safe - Have Fun - Find Hearts!

Jeannette is an incredible artist, a beautiful and warm-hearted lady, and a good blogging friend, who has just returned from a wonderful adventure! I immediately saw the upside-down heart on this rock Jeannette posted on her blog, "Artistique". Do you see it?

Be sure to visit Jeannette's "Art Notes" to see her wonderful and amazing artwork!

Thank you, Jesh, for sharing your heart!

Once again I caught JM sharing his heart ... I mean hearts! Look at all of the wonderful hearts on this beautiful red fence! I would love to go sit on one of those benches and daydream, wouldn't you?

You can catch JM's gorgeous photography at his blog, "Lisbon and the Sunny Coast".

Thank you, again, JM - for sharing your heart!

I want to invite you over to "Ol Mother Hubbard" ...

I've been following her for a while now, and am amazed and delighted by her creativity.

I am also incredibly honored that one of my hearts is featured on her first ever "Treasure Chest Thursday"!

Thank you, Ol Mother Hubbard, for sharing your heart!

(and mine!)

As always - a huge thank you to all who linked up with Guest Heart Thursday last week. I loved seeing the delightful and amazing hearts you found in your world!!!

 

Would you like to share your heart on Guest Heart Thursday?
The rules are easy ...

There are none!!!
As long as your post includes a heart!

If you have found a heart (or drawn a heart, or designed a heart, or written a heart-felt poem, or just found something that touches your heart, or ...), please join us for Guest Heart Thursday. Just link the URL of your heart post to "Simply Linked"! It would be nice if you linked back to Random Hearts ... but it's okay not to ... we just want to see your hearts!

Simply Linked for Guest Heart Thursday is now open all week!

Have you found more than one heart?

Put in more than one link!
Is your heart from a long time ago?

It doesn't matter, as long as you put the direct URL to that post!  

Guest Heart Thursday #167

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -

A Place to Share YOUR Heart!

Look at what I found on Deann, er, "Grannie Annie's" blog "The Whimsey Asylum" ...

Oh, this picture is more than just hearts and pretty faces!

It's a masterpiece! From one of my favorite heart-sisters!!!

Who is not only talented, but GORGEOUS as well!

 ((Seriously, Deann, did you think you could get away with sneaking this one in without us noticing???))

 Thank you, dear friend, for sharing your heart!

I love it when JM sneaks a heart into one of his posts ...

Because then I get to feature it ... and YOU get to visit his amazing blog, "Lisbon and the Sunny Coast"!

Pretty soon you'll be like me - visiting Portugal whenever you get the chance!

Thank you, JM, for sharing your heart!

Another place I love to visit is "Marges8's Blog" - where I spend hours at a time just looking over the amazing and at times surprisingly sophisticated paper dolls!

And you thought I was too old to play with paper dolls!!!

NOT! And neither are you!

Thank you, Marlendy, for sharing your heart!

As always - a huge thank you to all who linked up with Guest Heart Thursday last week. I loved seeing the delightful and amazing hearts you found in your world!!!

 

Would you like to share your heart on Guest Heart Thursday?
The rules are easy ...

There are none!!!
As long as your post includes a heart!

If you have found a heart (or drawn a heart, or designed a heart, or written a heart-felt poem, or just found something that touches your heart, or ...), please join us for Guest Heart Thursday. Just link the URL of your heart post to "Simply Linked"! It would be nice if you linked back to Random Hearts ... but it's okay not to ... we just want to see your hearts!

Simply Linked for Guest Heart Thursday is now open all week!

Have you found more than one heart?

Put in more than one link!
Is your heart from a long time ago?

It doesn't matter, as long as you put the direct URL to that post!  

Cloudy Heart

When you look up at the cloud-strewn sky, what do you see?

Do you see hearts???

I do!

The Last Heart ...

The big machines have been munching away at "The Abandoned" for over a month now. What was once a huge mega-church complex made of poured-in-place concrete and rebar is now just several gigantic piles of rubble, and a few large holes (like where the swimming pool used to be) ...

I found this small piece of graffiti-covered broken concrete in the debris, and knew it was probably one of the last hearts I would find in this huge demolition site.

But you never know where hearts will appear!

And I will keep looking.

Always.

Guest Heart Thursday #166

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -

A Place to Share YOUR Heart!

I'm baaaack!!!

Sissie delivered my "new" computer over the weekend, and just in time! My old one finally ground to a near-halt, and I just couldn't use it. I am still on a "learning curve" with this one, as it is a different operating system (and I am chagrined to admit I am "technologically challenged") ... but I am slowly getting the hang of it.

The only problem is ...

Because I spent so much time, er, "playing", I didn't have time to contact the wonderful people I wanted to feature this week - all of whom were links shared by one person ... and all of whom have specific copyright requirements that I ALWAYS try to honor.

But will I let that stop me? NO!

Because there are some wonderful hearts out there - and I can't wait for you to see them! It will just require a little more work on your part.

With that being said, I start out with ...

Texwisgirl - over at "The Run*Around*Ranch Report" - because she is the one who sent me the heart links that follow!

When you visit her blog on the page I have linked, scroll down to the 7th and 8th photos of this gorgeous waved sphinx month ... it's shaped like a heart!

Thank you so much, Texwisgirl, for sharing your heart!

♥♥♥

The first link Texwisgirl sent that I want to share is

"Slackwater - Don" - who posted this gorgeous flower, with a red heart near the center!

Thank you, Don, for sharing your heart!

 ♥♥♥

Next is

Ron, over at "Shutterbugs Capturing the World Around Us" - 

Ron managed to "capture" one of the most beautiful heart flowers I've seen!

Thank you, Ron, for sharing your heart!

♥♥♥

When I visited Gail over at "Louisiana Belle", I couldn't believe the gorgeous heart she found ... when you visit, scroll down to the 6th picture ... the one with the nutria swimming ... do you see the perfect heart in front of its nose? 

Thank you, Gail, for sharing your heart!

I want to give a special "Thank You" to all of you who have stuck with me during my computer woes ... and especially my absence from Blogland last week. I can't wait to see the hearts you found while I was away!!!

A special thank you goes to my sissie - Beth. Without the donation of her old (still good!) computer, I am back in business!!!

 

Would you like to share your heart on Guest Heart Thursday?
The rules are easy ...

There are none!!!
As long as your post includes a heart!

If you have found a heart (or drawn a heart, or designed a heart, or written a heart-felt poem, or just found something that touches your heart, or ...), please join us for Guest Heart Thursday. Just link the URL of your heart post to "Simply Linked"! It would be nice if you linked back to Random Hearts ... but it's okay not to ... we just want to see your hearts!

Simply Linked for Guest Heart Thursday is now open all week!

Have you found more than one heart?

Put in more than one link!
Is your heart from a long time ago?

It doesn't matter, as long as you put the direct URL to that post! 

Guest Heart Thursday #165

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -

A Place to Share YOUR Heart!

A Note: I am so very excited to share the news that my computer woes are nearly over!

Sissie Beth is getting a new computer!!!

But why is this exciting, you ask? Well, her "old" computer is still fairly new (especially when compared to dino-puter) - it's just not compatible with some of the other equipment she uses. So she's getting a new one.

And GUESS WHO GETS THE OLD ONE???

Yep, ME!!!

So ... possibly by the end of the weekend, I will be BACK!!!

Unfortunately, that does nothing for me today, and dino-puter has decided that it won't do pictures anymore (it took nearly an hour to upload my badge)

With that being said, I won't be posting any guest hearts for you to visit today.

And I still have issues commenting on the amazing hearts you've been finding ...

But as soon as the "new" computer is up and running, I will be back!

I can hardly wait!!!!!!!

Meanwhile, thank you so much for your patience, and for sharing your hearts!!!

Thank you, Sissie, for sharing your heart - and your computer!

As always - a huge thank you to all who linked up with Guest Heart Thursday last week. I loved seeing the delightful and amazing hearts you found in your world!!!

 

Would you like to share your heart on Guest Heart Thursday?
The rules are easy ...

There are none!!!
As long as your post includes a heart!

If you have found a heart (or drawn a heart, or designed a heart, or written a heart-felt poem, or just found something that touches your heart, or ...), please join us for Guest Heart Thursday. Just link the URL of your heart post to "Simply Linked"! It would be nice if you linked back to Random Hearts ... but it's okay not to ... we just want to see your hearts!

Simply Linked for Guest Heart Thursday is now open all week!

Have you found more than one heart?

Put in more than one link!
Is your heart from a long time ago?

It doesn't matter, as long as you put the direct URL to that post!  

Guest Heart Thursday #163

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -

A Place to Share YOUR Heart!

Another Day, Another Drama ...

I won't be featuring any hearts today, and here's why ...

We have had an incredible amount of rain for the past 2 days ...

At about 3 a.m. this morning I sat up in bed, wide awake.

I knew in my heart something was wrong ...

But what?

I checked through the house, all was well.

Until I got to my computer corner.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

The roof was leaking.
Not much, and only (it seems) during the super heavy downpours.

(This is nothing new; it just means that as soon as the rain slows down I have to climb on the roof and remove some debris that has built up.)

But until then, my computer area is OFF Limits - all unplugged and safely covered.

Sigh.

I hope to be able to see your links this afternoon ... hopefully the rain will have slowed down by then - at least enough for me to fix this dratted DRIP!!!

Thank you all for linking and sharing the delightful and amazing hearts you find in your world!!!
 

Would you like to share your heart on Guest Heart Thursday?
The rules are easy ...

There are none!!!
As long as your post includes a heart!

If you have found a heart (or drawn a heart, or designed a heart, or written a heart-felt poem, or just found something that touches your heart, or ...), please join us for Guest Heart Thursday. Just link the URL of your heart post to "Simply Linked"! It would be nice if you linked back to Random Hearts ... but it's okay not to ... we just want to see your hearts!

Simply Linked for Guest Heart Thursday is now open all week!

Have you found more than one heart?

Put in more than one link!
Is your heart from a long time ago?

It doesn't matter, as long as you put the direct URL to that post!  

Guest Heart Thursday #162

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -

A Place to Share YOUR Heart!

Thank you all for the birthday wishes from last week. I had a wonderful day, but don't want to do THAT again for, oh, let's say at least a year!!!

I have always loved the artwork of Beth Niquette ... which you can find over at "Beth's Artworx".

Do you know it?

Have you seen it?

The cool thing is ... she likes to hide hearts in most of her work!

But the best thing about this incredible artist ...

She is MY sissie!!! Ya-hoo!!!

Thank you, sissie-kins, for sharing your heart!

Laura's posts bring peace to my world ... 

But that's not all.

When I read what Laura writes ... from her heart and soul, there is always some heart- and soul-searching that I find I must do in my life.
Her inspiration is far reaching.

Laura's words and photos will inspire you as well.

"Shine the Divine: Creativity IS a Spiritual Practice"

My life is better ... changed because of her wisdom and friendship.

Thank you Laura.

Thank you.

From the bottom of MY heart ...

Thank you for sharing YOUR heart!

As always - a huge thank you to all who linked up with Guest Heart Thursday last week. I loved seeing the delightful and amazing hearts you found in your world!!!
 

Would you like to share your heart on Guest Heart Thursday?
The rules are easy ...

There are none!!!
As long as your post includes a heart!

If you have found a heart (or drawn a heart, or designed a heart, or written a heart-felt poem, or just found something that touches your heart, or ...), please join us for Guest Heart Thursday. Just link the URL of your heart post to "Simply Linked"! It would be nice if you linked back to Random Hearts ... but it's okay not to ... we just want to see your hearts!

Simply Linked for Guest Heart Thursday is now open all week!

Have you found more than one heart?

Put in more than one link!
Is your heart from a long time ago?

It doesn't matter, as long as you put the direct URL to that post!  

Guest Heart Thursday #161

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -

A Place to Share YOUR Heart!

I just love it when Master links up a heart quote.

Like this one ... it's GORGEOUS!

To check out Master's cool quotes, visit "My Coolest Quotes".

You'll love it too!!!

Thank you, Master, for sharing your heart!

Maria, over at "Connections to the World" receives postcards from all over the world.

I love how she documents each with who sent it, where it came from, how long it took to reach her, and how many miles it traveled.

But most of all, I love Maria's writing.

She makes me smile.

Thank you, Maria, for sharing your heart!

Dorothy also collects postcards, and posts them twice a week on her blog, "Coffeedoff's Coffeebreak".

I am constantly amazed at the postcards Dorothy finds ...

I have no idea how she finds such unique and awesome hearts!!!

Thank you, Dorothy, for sharing your heart!

I would like to give a special "THANK YOU" to my daughter, Georgia.

She has been saving for months to get me a special birthday gift ...

a camera.

Yep, a brand spanking new camera (Nikon D3200).

I've never had a new camera before - my old ones were all purchased at pawn shops.

I am still getting used to this new toy ...

But I would like to dedicate this "first Nikon heart" to Georgia.

Thank you, Georgia, for giving from your heart.

To mine.

P.S. - Yep, today really is my birthday.

I'm 52 years old ...

And I've earned EVERY SINGLE ONE of these gray hairs!!!

As always - a huge thank you to all who linked up with Guest Heart Thursday last week. I loved seeing the delightful and amazing hearts you found in your world!!!
 

Would you like to share your heart on Guest Heart Thursday?
The rules are easy ...

There are none!!!
As long as your post includes a heart!

If you have found a heart (or drawn a heart, or designed a heart, or written a heart-felt poem, or just found something that touches your heart, or ...), please join us for Guest Heart Thursday. Just link the URL of your heart post to "Simply Linked"! It would be nice if you linked back to Random Hearts ... but it's okay not to ... we just want to see your hearts!

Simply Linked for Guest Heart Thursday is now open all week!

Have you found more than one heart?

Put in more than one link!
Is your heart from a long time ago?

It doesn't matter, as long as you put the direct URL to that post!  

Guest Heart Thursday #160

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -

A Place to Share YOUR Heart!

The blog itself is in French ... "Le Blog de Yog" ... but the heart is a language understood all over the world!!!

Thank you, Susannah, for sending me the link to this awesome carpenter who posts some amazing pictures of his world. 

Merci, dear French carpenter, for sharing your heart!

 My mouth was already watering over this delicious loaf ... with the tiny and perfect little cherry heart!

Thank you, Texwisgirl, for sending me the link to Jacqueline over at "Cheapskate Blethering". I can hardly wait to check out her awesome-looking blog!

Thank you, Jacqueline, for sharing your heart!

Texwisgirl also saw the heart created by these three gorgeous flowers.

And sent me over to "The Zen of Motherhood" ... where Mama Zen posted this beautiful shot!

Thank you, Mama Zen, for sharing your heart!

Thank you, again, Texwisgirl, for sending me the links!

As always - a huge thank you to all who linked up with Guest Heart Thursday last week. I loved seeing the delightful and amazing hearts you found in your world!!!
 

Would you like to share your heart on Guest Heart Thursday?
The rules are easy ...

There are none!!!
As long as your post includes a heart!

If you have found a heart (or drawn a heart, or designed a heart, or written a heart-felt poem, or just found something that touches your heart, or ...), please join us for Guest Heart Thursday. Just link the URL of your heart post to "Simply Linked"! It would be nice if you linked back to Random Hearts ... but it's okay not to ... we just want to see your hearts!

Simply Linked for Guest Heart Thursday is now open all week!

Have you found more than one heart?

Put in more than one link!
Is your heart from a long time ago?

It doesn't matter, as long as you put the direct URL to that post!  

Guest Heart Thursday #159

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -

A Place to Share YOUR Heart!

(My computer is still working ... barely. I just have to spend a lot more time babying the silly thing ... I can't wait to see the hearts you find in your world ... even if I am unable to leave a comment, please know that I have been there!!!)

Sissie and I used to walk "The Abandoned" together.

 Back when it was first built in the 1970s ...

In its first life as a Rehabilitation Center ...

And it's next life as a mega-church ...

Then when it became abandoned ...

And vandalized ...

And now with the demolition begun.

Soon only memories remain.

 Memories of good times ... and hearts.

Be sure to visit Beth over at "The Abandoned" ... to see the changes we have watched over the years.

And thank you, sissie, for sharing your heart!

I love Cheryl - my heart-sister.

Even in the rain, look at the heart she found!

"March to March"

Cheryl will always be close in my heart - her friendship is so dear to me! And guess what? She's NICE too!!!

Thank you so much, Cheryl, for sharing your friendship ... and your heart!

Nathalie is a new friend ...

Who is on an amazing and inspiring journey.

You can find out what that is by visiting her over at "Thinsply Halie".

Thank you, Nathalie, for sharing your heart ... and your inspiration!

Susannah is another good friend ...

With an inspiration all her own.

I love how she found, in this rock, a heart she didn't know was there when she took the shot.

But in order to see it, you have to enlarge the shot ... and find the perfect heart "engraved" near the top right side of the red rock.

Or you can just feast your eyes on the white heart at the bottom.

Be sure to visit Susannah at her blog, "Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)". You'll love it!

Thank you, Susannah, for sharing your heart!

As always - a huge thank you to all who linked up with Guest Heart Thursday last week. I loved seeing the delightful and amazing hearts you found in your world!!!
 

Would you like to share your heart on Guest Heart Thursday?
The rules are easy ...

There are none!!!
As long as your post includes a heart!

If you have found a heart (or drawn a heart, or designed a heart, or written a heart-felt poem, or just found something that touches your heart, or ...), please join us for Guest Heart Thursday. Just link the URL of your heart post to "Simply Linked"! It would be nice if you linked back to Random Hearts ... but it's okay not to ... we just want to see your hearts!

Simply Linked for Guest Heart Thursday is now open all week!

Have you found more than one heart?

Put in more than one link!
Is your heart from a long time ago?

It doesn't matter, as long as you put the direct URL to that post!  

Guest Heart Thursday #158

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -

A Place to Share YOUR Heart!

I should have started earlier ...

But I got up a little late.

How could I have known this morning was going to be "one of those"?

That my computer would pick today to glitch out like crazy?

It took an hour to load the GHT badge.

The noises from within my hard drive have gone from annoying to alarming ...

And everything freezes up every couple of minutes.

Sigh.

 I am thankful that I still have a computer - while it lasts. My daughter says she has an old hard drive she will try to clean out (wipe and restore) that I can use until I can afford a new one. At least she THINKS it still works!!! Yay!!!

In the meantime, I have run out of time to upload guest hearts for you to visit today - I had no idea it would take me this long to get this far - and I really do have to go get ready for work.

So thank you all for sharing your HEARTS!!!

And for visiting the amazing hearts that were linked up last week.

As always - a huge thank you to all who linked up with Guest Heart Thursday last week. I loved seeing the delightful and amazing hearts you found in your world!!!
 

Would you like to share your heart on Guest Heart Thursday?
The rules are easy ...

There are none!!!
As long as your post includes a heart!

If you have found a heart (or drawn a heart, or designed a heart, or written a heart-felt poem, or just found something that touches your heart, or ...), please join us for Guest Heart Thursday. Just link the URL of your heart post to "Simply Linked"! It would be nice if you linked back to Random Hearts ... but it's okay not to ... we just want to see your hearts!

Simply Linked for Guest Heart Thursday is now open all week!

Have you found more than one heart?

Put in more than one link!
Is your heart from a long time ago?

It doesn't matter, as long as you put the direct URL to that post!  

Guest Heart Thursday #157

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -

A Place to Share YOUR Heart!

I just know when Texwisgirl sends me a link ... that I will find a special heart.

Well in this case I found two!

Plus I got to visit Arizona on a road trip with Deanna via her blog, "A Photographic Journal".

There, I saw a bunch of hearts in this delicate spring wildflower.

And THEN ...

I saw the twin hearts Deanna found in the tail feathers of this beautiful cactus wren ...

And all I can say is WOW.

Thank you, Deanna, for sharing your heart!

Thank you, again, Texwisgirl, for sharing the link!

 When Hearts Collide
No one knows the time or place
When two hearts beat as one
But know this Truth that it is so
Just as the rays of sun

Reaching deep into the soul
It warms the places there
A brighter sky and dancing clouds
All suddenly aware
Moonbeams grace the evening sky
Feelings will not subside
All that you see and feel right now
You know that hearts collide

People search a lifetime
For such a dream to come
So when it does please cherish it
When two hearts beat as one

Nina P.

"Nina P's Thoughts and Musings"

Nina P is a poet.

Her words make me smile.

And cry.

And touch a chord deep in my heart.

Thank you, dear friend, for sharing your heart!

As always - a huge thank you to all who linked up with Guest Heart Thursday last week. I loved seeing the delightful and amazing hearts you found in your world!!!
 

Would you like to share your heart on Guest Heart Thursday?
The rules are easy ...

There are none!!!
As long as your post includes a heart!

If you have found a heart (or drawn a heart, or designed a heart, or written a heart-felt poem, or just found something that touches your heart, or ...), please join us for Guest Heart Thursday. Just link the URL of your heart post to "Simply Linked"! It would be nice if you linked back to Random Hearts ... but it's okay not to ... we just want to see your hearts!

Simply Linked for Guest Heart Thursday is now open all week!

Have you found more than one heart?

Put in more than one link!
Is your heart from a long time ago?

It doesn't matter, as long as you put the direct URL to that post!