they call me mellow yellow...

It seems that everything in my life is turning yellow instead of rosy lol...

Just look at my beautiful Golden Rain Tree that has burst into bloom this last week. I love this tree, & each year it just keeps amazing me. My Grandmother gave me a seedling off her own tree the year before she passed away. I have nurtured it thru two severe droughts & a box-elder beetle infestation & even my LittleMan breaking branches trying to climb it & this is my reward! My sweet tree has put out the MOST blooms I have ever seen on it... I took this picture yesterday, & I swear this morning more blooms have opened & are literally causing the branches to droop with their weight! It is even making seed pods, so I'm sure by this autumn there will be thousands little bronze-colored "bells" covering it & accenting the orange-red of the leaves. My kiddos love playing with the bells that fall on the ground, opening them to find the round black seeds.

And now for some more yellow...

I finished my first dishcloth KAL weeks ago, but never posted a pic of it. With the bright sunny yellow cotton used, can you guess what it was? Here's a pic so you can see if you guessed right...

Yeppers! It's Tweety Bird! Big thanks to Alli for designing such a cute cloth that my LittleMan absolutely adores... he has already used it in his bath several times. The Mr. recently bought a Looney Tunes DVD Collection & they both watch them together, so this was just perfect for him! Now if someone will just design a My Little Pony cloth I can make for my MissPriss, we'll be in business LOL!

Also, I just found out that another of my neighbors is having a baby YAY! This one isn't due until January... but I already want to start a Zodiac Sleep Sack, & since I can't know yet if it's a boy or girl on the way, guess which color yarn I'm buying this weekend... yup, YELLOW!

~~~the universal non-gender-specific color for babies~~~~

The other option would have been green, but the mom-to-be hates green, so yellow it is.

Now I'm off to gather the kiddos for lunch... they are out back, under our yellow tree, playing in the yellow sprinkler. I got a good 2 rows on my ripple baby blankie & this post done while they were out. Thanks goodness for summer & pretty shade trees!