17 years ago.

 Because I'm low on material I thought I would post two things that came up in my google photos labeled 17 years ago.

First up is a digital scrapbook page I made

The second was a dog we spotted at one of the free concerts we went to. There was a park close to where my husband used to live in Conneaut Lake Pa and they did a free concert on the lawn every weekend. 

Can you guess

 Now it's getting really pitiful as far as what I have to post. I'm definitely scraping bottom of the barrel with this one.

Can you guess what this is?

To some this may be very obvious and I think there is just enough in this picture to give it away. However just in case you can't figure it out I do have a larger picture to show.

Here you go.

It's my shoe.

Weeds.

 I've got plenty of weeds around me. Just because it's a weed doesn't mean it isn't pretty though.

Then there are things that aren't weeds but they aren't looking so good.

This Hosta plant is looking kind of sad with lots of brown on the leaves and tons of weeds growing in and around them. I just haven't had the strength or the energy to get out there and do any weeding this year. It's looking pretty sad in my yard.

Fire

Last week seemed like everything decided to burn at once. (the first two pictures in this post are taken from Facebook as I wasn't able to get pictures of my own)

I was on my way home from work one day and close to home there was a road blocked off by fire trucks. Turns out there was a house fire. 

I drove by here the other day and it was reduced to a pile of rubble. So incredibly sad and devastating for the family that lived there. Thankfully, no one was hurt in this fire though.

Another day on my way to work, as I approached the overpass at one of the exits on the highway I saw a car on fire. I couldn't get a picture of that but did find this one after the fire had been put out

Lastly of course are the fires in Canada and Minnesota. The smoke had made it's way into Pennsylvania and last Thursday and Friday it was really bad. This was how hazy it was. You could even smell the smoke in the air.

The sun was an orange color but you can't really tell from the picture. It's much pales in the picture than what I was actually seeing.

As bad as it was here, I can't imagine what it must have been like for those much closer to these fires. I just pray that everyone who was affected by the fires is safe

Side note for Chatty Crone. I am getting your comments but as I was replying to one this morning I noticed that your comments are now coming in as no reply so you aren't getting them. I wasn't sure what your email was either so couldn't change it over. If you want to contact me directly at iannieam@gmail.com I can make sure I note your email address and start replying to you again. Sorry for the confusion.