Tell Us About 06.2024: Beauty in My World

Ladybugs, thank you for joining me for this month’s edition of Tell Us About.  My friends and I are talking about beauty.  And I have to admit, I was tempted to sit this one out as my first inclination was that we were to write about beauty products or our ‘beauty’ routine.  For which I have limited (NO) information to impart in either category.

But then I started thinking about relating the word to my world and the things around me and suddenly I was back to my naturally verbose self.  When I read the summaries the other gals had written for their beauty posts, I was further inspired.  Happy to be joining them again for this fun series and link-up.

Tell Us About

Are you new to the Tell Us About (TUA) series?  Let me tell you about it!!  TUA is a global writing challenge where bloggers from all around the planet(!!) respond to a different prompt on the third Thursday of each month.  I joined the group early in 2023 and so appreciated the invite to do so, and the opportunities to do some creative writing on my blog. But then LIFE got crazy with PC’s health and I just couldn’t think straight enough to write blog posts of any sort.  For this month, things are calmer and I can breathe again!!  So, I am happily joining in again.

You can find my other TUA posts here:

Tell Us About –

• Play
• Scent
• Gardens and Gardening
• Ways I’m a Curiosity
• Travel
• Imagination
• my theme choice for September, Legacy
• Hometowns
• Laughter
• Music to my Ears

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Please find the places and posts where I link-up on this page.

Tell Us About 06.2024:  Beauty in my World

After dismissing the idea that we were to write a post about our favorite beauty products or beauty regimen, I was inclined to just fill an entire post with pictures of my beautiful daughters, my beautiful grandchildren and my beautiful Prince Charming.  But a lot of my posts, especially my monthly editions for Sentence a Day, look about like that.  Lots of pictures of family.  I thought about sharing the beauty of the Chihuahuan Desert I call home, however, I wrote a post on that several years ago. Shared my ‘beautiful’ yard in a post, here, last summer.  So what to write, what to write??

Last week, the Where Bloggers Live gals and I wrote about our summer vacation plans.  My first of 3 trips kicked off summer in a big way beginning last Thursday when we flew to Kentucky for my baby brother Kevin’s wedding to his longtime girlfriend, LeeAnn.  It was a lovely, family celebration on a sprawling estate and working horse farm outside of Lexington where they both live.  Beautiful.  Hey, BEAUTIFUL!!  And all of a sudden I knew what I would write about for today’s post.

Wedding Bells

Did anyone else watch The Golden Bachelor last fall?  I tried to resist as I have been resisting the most recent seasons of The Bachelor/The Bachelorette but I saw a clip from the first episode of The Golden Bachelor and liked the fact that these were people my age.  The Golden Bachelor, Gerry Turner, is 72 years old and his fiancé-then bride and now ex-wife, Theresa Nist, is 70.  Clearly the premise of finding love on a TV show didn’t work for them.  The couple only lasted months.  But ABC is trying it again with The Golden Bachelorette airing this fall.

Anyway, through that series my heart was buoyed by the idea and hope that seniors can find love and a happily ever after ending.  Then in attending Kevin and Lee Ann’s wedding, I became acquainted with a number of their friends who were relative newlyweds and had fallen happily in love after 50.  PC and I met when he was 39 and I was 45.  And married 5 years later.  So we are among that crowd.  At least I am.  And now my brother and his bride are, too.  Wishing them the happily ever after I have found and they deserve.

Now on to the Beautiful Part

Kevin and Lee Ann’s wedding was a beautiful.  In every way.  The venue was GlenLary Estate in Paris, Kentucky, an old southern mansion set on a 200 acre horse farm outside of Lexington.  It was gorgeous.  And green.  And historic.  An absolutely enchanting location for their wedding weekend.

While I have loved living in El Paso for over 35 years, I do miss the ‘green’ of the southeastern states.  Visiting Kevin, Mom and now Valerie, who recently moved back to Tennessee, has reminded me how much I miss green grass, trees, flowers growing in abundance, even lightning bugs.

Here are just a few pictures I took from our wedding weekend getaway.

We are planning another trip ‘back that way’ toward the end of the summer.  I look forward to seeing family again and relaxing in the green of our Tennessee-Kentucky-Ohio hometowns.

Your Turn

What would your post about beauty look like?  Would you focus on personal beauty and beauty tips or beauty found in the world around you?

Hope you will join me in visiting the blogs of all of the Tell Us About bloggers.  Summaries of their posts are as follow.

• Gail from Is This Mutton looks at the concept of beauty over the ages and how women still suffer to conform to society’s expectations.
• Suzy’s delves into the journey of self-love and embracing authentic beauty, wrinkles and all.
• While Marsha at Marsha in the Middle proposed the theme of beauty, she’s not talking beauty in the fashion world.  Instead, she’s writing about the beauty we can see all around us.
• Debbie the host at Debbie’s World, has asked some special women in her life for their thoughts on beauty, which may be cheating in some ways but…their words are all heartbreakingly beautiful and make for inspiring reading!
• Penny, the Frugal Fashion Shopper, looked at beauty from all angles (because there are so many aspects of this idea of beauty)  and decided to write mainly about the history of eyebrows!
• The host of MK’s Adventures in Style, Mary Katherine, reflects on the importance our society places on “beauty” for women, and how she wrestles in her own life to balance having gravitas and glitter at the same time…
• Sue at Women Living Well After 50, explores beauty in all forms and discusses how we can thrive by putting the focus on our inner beauty as well as the beauty that surrounds us.
• Finally, Jill who blogs at Grown-up Glamour looks at beauty in its in many forms.

Here’s a glimpse of some granddaughter and PC beauty from our last day babysitting Lucia and Cami while Lauren and Francisco were on vacation.  We had a grand day:  slept late, lazy breakfast, pool time, visit to Jungle Reef, McDonald’s for dinner and finished the evening with “Sing2” before mommy and daddy arrived.

Off to iron.  Really.  I keep saying that and then LIFE or a nap calls.  But heading up there right now.  As soon as I eat lunch and figure out what’s for supper.  Have a bang-up end to your week.  Thank you for popping by to visit.

Hugs and kisses,