December photo 10

This was out my front door. B and I marveled at it for a while before getting ready for school.

October Photo 7

This is one of those little blessing God gives all of us. It isn't monetary, and it doesn't last very long, but it feels like a gift. And being able to take a picture of it and keep it---it makes me happy.

September Photo 16

Here's a bug of some kind that jumped on my shoe after this shot. Yes, it's focussing on the mailbox instead of the bug!

September Photo 12

I did crop this one. They hummingbirds were kind of leery of us humans around their feeders.

September Photo 11

September Photo 9

Mom and Dad's sage bushes bloomed after the rains, adn they were humming with Bees.

September Photo 7

I was in the backyard, taking "before" pictures of the trees and yard, and looked up at the beautiful sky. Love it!

I know I was going crazy. My brain always goes to a worst case scenario, so I was sure that a tree was goign to fall on our house in Hurricane Ike.

August Photo 10

We had some really interesting clouds this one evening. Funny thing, though--I don't think we got any rain off this!

July Photo 12

Title: The Devil is Beating His Wife
(Have you heard that phrase before?) :-)
This was the second day in a row that a spotty thundershower came over my neighborhood. And the unexpected result? My front door isn't sticking in the frame anymore. I guess the wet weather finally made things right again.

May Photo 22

This trip was so good, I thought it deserved at least a week's worth of photos! I took over 150, so this is whittled down to the best ones, I think.

To end this photographic adventure, I'll show you some of the animals we saw. The girl will probably remember the zebra who kind of snapped at us and the ostrich who came in the car with his neck, grabbed our animal food bag (almost empty, anyway!), and then left the vehicle with the bag on his head. It was too funny---after we got over the fright!

May Photo 20

On the hike part of the day, we had binoculars and magnifying glasses. A Closer Look around our surroundings. :-)

May Photo 18

Part of Fossil Rim is a petting zoo. We were able to brush the animals in there---and they loved it! I love the tenderness of this girl with this animal.

May Photo 17

At breakfast time, we ate alongside the Paluxy River in Dinosaur Valley State Park. On the other side, there are dinosaur footprints, although with the water so high, it was hard to find them this morning. Nothing like a dunk in the water to get the morning going! Most everyone had wet pants when they got back across!

May Photo 12

There were two rabbits in the yard, munching on the grass. They were on to me, though---that one is giving me a wary eye.

May Photo 11

Took this outside J's school one evening. Beauty!

May Photo 7

B and I went shopping this day---a little for my Mom, a little something for father's day as well. B found something there that she thought I would like. I gave her a little cash and she went up to the front to buy it without me looking. She couldn't wait for Mother's Day, so I opened it early. And here it is with the first growth! It's called a grass head, and should have a full hed of hair pretty soon.

May Photo 1

I was in the yard taking pictures of some baby birds (who didn't have the sense to run away form me or the dog! So I got really close to them), and I got this really good one of a squirrel on the fence. Look at the focus on him and not on the background! Auto setting worked great this time.



Here are the other ones I took. These were all using my zoom, and then I cropped them, so it looks even closer. The blue jay was feeding his/her babies---stuffing stuff right in their mouths! Look how big they are and still depending on parents. But their baby feathers are still there, and like I said, they didn't know to run away---and they couldn't really fly much.





I had to go look up some info about the Jays---their sexes look alike, and their eggs are very similar to the ones I found and posted about in April photo 13.

Happy Birthday, Mom!!

April Photo 21

This is the best of the bunch!

I took B out to do bluebonnet pictures, very late in the season, I add, and the other wildflowers were very nice, too. I love how her hair took flight in the wind.

The bluebonnets---a bit dried up, and the grass has now grown so tall they cover up al their glorious blue.

April Photo 17

This rabbit has been grazing in our yard. I shot this through the window and with a zoom.

April Photo 13

A big bunch of fluffy stuff was in an old flower pot on the deck. I went over to move it, and I realized it looked like a nest, with a hole for an opening. When I looked inside, this is what I saw. Isn't that cool?