CC, our darling daughter says " Mom you are now half a century old."
I reply "Why thanks I had not thought of my age in quite that way."
CC further states, "That's five decades."
We still let her eat supper with us.
Today I am fifty and we had some professional images made recently with that in view.
I am standing on hundreds of broken liquor bottles in an abandoned bank beside a liquor store. Apparently our small town has lots of drinkers.
My hips were not supposed to appear in any images but that flew out the alley as you see.
The puppy is so much bigger now.
We will be able to look back and say he really was tiny once upon a time.
All images by my dear friend Shelia at Shelia Godfrey Photography
Thank You Shelia.
We had so much fun taking these images with you.
joy and peace
Olive
Why did you not tell me! So now I can let you in my club:)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely adore the photos! You guys are so cute and I could tell you stories about the drinkers in our town. We even had an Otis:)
Happy HAPPY Birthday to you ...you are as beautiful on the outside as you are on the inside. Love the pics.
ReplyDeleteI really want to go to Cade's Cove - your photos really touch the heart.
Now it's confession time: I accidentally hit 'delete' instead of 'publish' on one of your recent comments to me. (Pudgy fingers...small phone...) I do appreciate your visits.
Now have yourself a wonderful evening celebrating y-o-u.
Hugs,
Jan
Beautiful pics.....Happy Birthday!!!!
ReplyDelete~Des
I'm right behind you at 48!! You go girl!
ReplyDeleteYour pics are bEAUTIFUL!!!! I, however am almost 6 and a HALF decades....I YI YI!!!!!!!!! Hoe did this happen. Also, I ADORE your hair! XO, Pinky
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! Welcome to the club. It's not so bad on this side of the century mark. The pictures turned out great. Your smile lights up the shots. What a wonderful idea. Enjoy the celebration. Patty
ReplyDeleteHAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR OLIVE!!! You are just stunning sweet lady!... love all of your beautiful photos, what a fun time you must have had!... hope all of your birthday wishes come true!... you look young and happy... and I know your wonderful positive attitude has alot to do with it!... puppy kisses to Shelley... xoxo Julie Marie
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday!! Cute shots.
ReplyDeleteThe photos are beautiful, Olive. Hope you had a great day. I turn 60 tomorrow. I am heading to bed early so I am ready when the shock hits. Hugs, Deb
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you hear all the time how young you look. These are gorgeous photos of you. We should all be required to do this on the blog. Okay. I take that completely back. Happy, Happy, Birthday!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the other side, Olive. lol I'll be 53 in November. You look beautiful. Happy Birthday!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday dear Olive! Your pictures are beautiful! You and Joe looks so happy. You have the most beautiful blue eyes and smile.
ReplyDeleteWishing many more Happy Birthdays to you.
a half century beauty!!! take it from me, i am older and wiser (well, older anyway).
ReplyDeletehappy birthday!
erin
xxoo
These pictures are AWESOME, Olive!!! What a great way to celebrate this milestone. Happy Birthday to you!
ReplyDeleteMary Alice
You're gorgeous. Beautiful pictures.
ReplyDeleteOlive,
ReplyDeleteYou look smashing! Really great.
I think to myself regularly, "I am half a century old." Then I remember that I just turned 51...
Happy Birthday!
As a photographer I know that you can't create good pictures unless you have a subject that is just as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside...I see your friend the photographer captured both your inner beauty and your gorgeous outer beauty!!! Just beautiful!
ReplyDeletexo Kat
Wishing you 50 more good ones beautiful lady.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos...so glad you included Shelley. I joined that club last summer and quietly let it go by. I think it's great that you took photos to mark it.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pictures. Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteHappy Jubilee Olive! All great pix, but I especially like the first one. And a very blessed fiftieth year to you.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Olive! You have to say 'yes ma'am' to me because I'm your elder - I'm 60! :)
ReplyDeleteLove your darling photos and you are so beautiful.
Be a sweetie,
shelia :)
You look beautiful in these photos, I love the one where you are smiling and in the fuchsia top, the kissing photo and the one that is full length with dh and doggie. Your spirit shows as a happy one.
ReplyDeleteOh my whiskers!!!!! You look absolutely fabulous! And all this time I thought you were just kind! Nope. Kind AND beautiful!!!! And you had a purrday too!?!?! That's very nice of you to let CC still eat inside with you ;) "She" is one year behind you, if that is any consolulation. Of course I'm not going to tell you what I cal "her" MOL Anyway, I did enjoy your purrfestional pics!!! Thanks so much for sharing. Please give my purrs-sentiment to my buddy Clovis. I assume he is still under house arrest???
ReplyDeleteRomeo
Happy Happy Birthday my dear! You look absolutely gorgeous. I love to see your photos.
ReplyDeletehave a wonderful time! Hugs xx
I love the photos Olive, thank you so much for sharing them with us!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome photos! And you look GREAT! I especially like the ones where you're wearing pink. You look young and chic!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, dear Olive and all the best to you.
Happy birthday dear Olive. Your pictures are lovely, such a bright, open, and smiling young face. Did you have a change of clothing and jewels hanging in that abandoned bank?
ReplyDeleteThe stresses you have experienced in the 'Hold Everything Lightly Series' have not left their mark on your face. You would think that you had joyously sailed through life. Hopefully that is what you are doing now - enjoy your day♥
Happy Birthday Olive!
ReplyDeleteLove your photos!
Don't fret over 50...it just gets better & better!
♥'s
Sherry
Happy B-Day! Great pics! Love the first one of the three of you:@)
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Olive! You are looking extremely good for one who has weathered 49 winters - obviously not one of the town's drinkers.
ReplyDeleteVery nice snap. thanks for this blog.
ReplyDeleteWedding florist
You look beautiful! Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeletexo
Claudia
Olive, you look so pretty and alive with fun in that fushia! Love that Joe and the pup made into the pics too! What a way to mark the bday.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy birthday. Lovely photos. Happy photos.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday. Here's to the other half of your century! You look so pretty in your photos. I have a no hips policy too, but they tend to sneak in there.
ReplyDeleteOlive, these photos are so amazing. I love that Joe and the puppy were in some of them.
ReplyDeleteHappiest birthday...
Happy Happy Birthday to a beautiful lady...both inside and out.....these pictures are so pretty and they capture your personality so well...
ReplyDeleteand turning 50...well, it is one of the best things that ever happened to me!!! I have LOVED my fifties.....
love,
Mona
That's such a great idea to have pro pics done to mark the occasion! Have a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ~ Maureen
ReplyDeleteYou look fabulous dear! Happy Birthday! Mine is today and I'm 55 yikes!
ReplyDeleteYOU are gorgeous my friend and what CC doesn't know yet is that 50 is just about when we get it all figured out :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to you :)
Blessings!
Gail
Happy Birthday!!! Half century is quite an accomplishment and you are headed for the very best time of life! I'm 2 years from my 6th decade and looking forward to what it brings! I remember being really down on my 25th birthday because a student of mine told me I had reached my 1/4 century mark...arggh! Guess I showed her! Ha! You are going to enjoy 50...all cares go out the window and you will be even more confident in yourself than you already are!! Best, Vicki
ReplyDeleteYou are beautiful. The pictures are great. You will be so glad that you took them. A couple years ago my husband cancelled one of his life ins. policies as it was too expensive. So I had my DIL (our professional photographer) to take some photos of us. I told him he would surely be leaving this earth since he did that and I wanted a picture of us to remember him by. He did go right out and get another policy, hah.
ReplyDeleteOlive, You are a beauty at 50..tell CC, you plan on being older than that.:):) Your hair looks really cute too. Smiles, Susie
ReplyDeleteOh Olive, sweetheart, you are a gorgeous woman and you do not look half a century old! You are so beautiful, inside and out! Happy Birthday, sweet friend! I'm still older than you....pooh!
ReplyDeleteNancy
xo
Happy Birthday Olive!
ReplyDeleteWhat gorgeous photos of you and your hubby! You look great, no one would put you in the half century club after seeing those!
Rebecca
Belated BiRthDaY Wishes Olive!*!*! ~ A day late - but NEVER FORGOTTEN!*!*! Hope you had a FaB Day doing what you LoVe... AND those PHOTOS OF YOU... JOE... OMG!!! Best!*!*! Just Darling couple!!!
ReplyDeleteHugs... Jeanine Burkhardt
Sending you some belated birthday wishes! I've been down for the count all week with vertigo and a pounding head. Must be lingering results of that conk on the head I took a couple of years ago. It isn't fun to be dizzy all the time! that first photo do you is such a good picture! :-) Sue
ReplyDeleteOlive you are absolutely beautiful! The photos are superb. I also love the photos with you and Joe and the puppy too. Wishing you a Very Happy Birthday!!! XO
ReplyDeleteOlive, you are
ReplyDeletejust so gorgeous,
inside AND out!
And Joe is handsome.
You make a beautiful
couple and family!
xo Suzanne
Happy Birthday, Dear Olive, Happy Birthday to you!
ReplyDeleteYour photos are so lovely! I think Charles and I should have a professional photo taken for our 30th anniversary....
A sign at our corner bar down the street says: "Douglas is too small to have a town drunk, so we all take turns"!
I hope your day was perfect!
You are a beautiful woman....I love all the pics...but that first one is fabulous!! Happy Birthday! I am running a bit frazzled right now, so I know I am late....but still heartfelt!
ReplyDeleteThese portraits of you are simply fabulous! I should consider this next year for my birthday... just love the idea of having a professional set of photos done... and look at your sweetheart there beside you. Thanks for sharing these with us.
ReplyDeleteOlive ~ You are beautiful! What a great idea to do for your 50th! I love that one of you looking through that door opening. Your hubby looks like such a nice guy ~ such a friendly face he has. I love the pictures of you together, as well.
ReplyDelete50...c'mon. I think someone is blowing smoke up my dress!
ReplyDeleteIf 50 is considered vintage, all I can say is only if it's like a fine wine and that is one thing you are. Full of spirit, sparkling, and always guaranteed to make me smile. Beautiful photos!
XOXO
Your poet,
Deb
Happy Birthday sweet friend! You really are GORGEOUS! And what great photos! You look very young with such a pretty complexion and cute hair cut! Now I want some good photos made! heehee! I hope you're having a fun weekend and still celebrating!
ReplyDeleteOlive, how did I miss this? Happy Birthday!!! I love all the photos, your eyes look like they are sparkling! I didn't mind turning 50 but the problem with that age is you are moving toward 60, I feel way too young for that. But a great idea to mark the day with professional photos, you will be so glad you did this. Hope you had a wonderful day, Laura
ReplyDeleteHappy Belated Birthday! Welcome to the 50's club! It is great!
ReplyDeleteYou are GORGEOUS! Your smile would light up the darkest corner! So lovely! I love the bright pink shirt, perfect color for you.
I can see the love you and your husband have for each other, so sweet! Beautiful photos!
Sneaking in to wish you belated birthday wishes. Looks like you have all of them covered. YOU are beautiful and that color fushia look good on you.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the world of 50...I have experience by 8 years so ask if you have questions.
Hope you are staying cool in this Ga hot weather but looks like a cool down is coming nest week. This so far has been a great spring and start to summer compaired to last year.
GOD bless and keep you all safe!