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>I was paying bills (yuck) and stopped for a drink of water. As I drank the last drop, I noticed how pretty my Mother’s Day flowers looked through the bottom of the glass. Naturally, I ran for my camera and took a bunch of pictures. I’m easily sidetracked. There are just so many more fun [...]

> My New Dawn roses are climbing the arbor and looking beautiful. They smell delicious, too. Imagine this…the Painted Bunting and his wife on this gate with the roses – and I didn’t have the right lens on my camera! I will see it in my mind forever, though, and hope you can picture it, [...]

> Terrier means earth dog. Can you tell? Bonnie was helping Anna in the garden yesterday, snorfling in the mud like a little pig. She seems to especially like the pepper patch. No need for a shovel if she is on the job. Just point where a hole is needed and she gets to work [...]

> Look what’s been visiting my feeder! It’s a Painted Bunting. We hear him singing all day long and run to the window when he sounds close. There are two males that we know of. They are elusive and getting a good look at them takes persistence and diligence. Last evening, David and I sat [...]

> …my favorite day of the week – the whole weekend ahead. Enjoy yours.

> My youngest daughter is quite a gardener. What started long ago, as a toddler hunting for ready-radishes like Easter eggs in Grandad’s garden and helping Grampy with his tomatoes, has become what appears to be a life-long passion. She has a large garden at our house and we enjoy the fruits of her labor. [...]

> I am so glad that my little neice, Lainey, likes to dance around in the rain and wear boots with dresses. And that I got a picture of it. She’s even cuter than her reflection!

> Anybody know what kind of cows these are? For a couple of years, they’ve been in a pasture I drive by just outside Fredericksburg. Upon describing them to you-know-who, I was given a look of total skepticism. So, I stopped and took a picture and someone, who shall remain nameless, said he was sorry [...]

> I travel frequently to the Hill Country region of Texas and the carpets of wildflowers along the highway never cease to take my breath away. Lady Bird Johnson and I would have been friends, I just know it.

>I am trying really, really hard to post pictures of our trip to the ft worth botanic gardens, but I can’t find them. I used my new camera and I think the images downloaded into outer space. Actually, I can see them on the computer, but when I try to find them through this posting [...]

>I believe it’s time to introduce the animals. We’ll start with Bonnie aka My Birthday Present. She is a Yorkie, a big Yorkie. We’re glad, though, because she needs to be sturdy. After all, she’s not living the fu-fu life – she’s a country dog and in charge of everything and everybody. One of her [...]

>Okay, I knew it already. But, now, I’m 100%, absolutely, positively, no-doubt-about-it sure…I married the right person. The other day, he walked in, opened up his work-gloved hand and said, “Here’s a dead thing for your dead area.” Most of the things in the picture were “gifts” he brought me because he knows me. I [...]