Bonnie Ballentine

Z = Zebra Plant

Before: After: Done very quickly. I'm sure I could do better with a little more effort. I also removed an age spot from my forehead. 🙂

X = Xeronema callistemon (Poor Knight’s Lily) Google to the rescue.

Q = Queen Anne’s Lace

Usually one or two at a time. I have had 3 at one time and right now I have two...Poppy and Penny. There were many others of whom I have no photos. Their names are in the cat wordart.

O = Ohio spiderwort I had spiderwort volunteer in my yard a few years back. I haven't seen it recently.

Cats...I have had many. These are a few:

More dogs:

I created these layouts for the Alphabet Book challenge. Mac belonged to my parents when I was born so he was my first pet.

My friend, Ann. We showed up to pickleball with the same shoes and shirt and same color headwear...Twins!

Every Wednesday a group of women pickleball players meet after playing pickleball and have lunch together. After that we play table games...usually something different each week. Overall, it is the group that traveled to a pickleball clinic in January and we have a trip planned for March, 2025. Now you know why there are pickleballs in a layout for table games.

South Carolina is my home state...born and raised there. The University of South Carolina has seldom done well in sports but our women's basketball team has done very well. They won the national championship for the third time in 2024 and they are undefeated in the 2024 season. Needless to say, this season was outstanding for our fams. Dawn Staley is the coach and she does not refer to spectators as fans...they are fams...and the atmosphere feels like family. 2024 was a big year for women's basketball everywhere. The women's games were drew more spectators than the men's games (National Championship) and tickets for the women's games demanded and received a higher price. All of this is huge for women's sports!

L = Lily of the Valley