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  • On one of our hikes we came accross a thistle plant and this one bloom had both a bumble bee AND a butterfly on it. I took 5 different pics of it, but this is the best one. And we were "adopted" by this white lab pup…

  • WE'RE BACK

    Probably the most thrilling thing about the most recent "sister trip" Alice and I took was that we both got to pet and feed deer . . . in the wild . . . up close and personal. Every morning about 7:30 the deer would m…

  • I'm not sure whether or not our cabin has an internet connection, so Alice and I may or may not be posting while on vacation. But rest assured we will be having a great time and taking a myriad of pictures. Just today …

  • Oh, I'm getting excited. It's Thursday evening and Alice and I leave on Vacation Sunday morning . . . just two more days and then we're off. I've already started packing and tomorrow I make a couple loaves of home mad…

  • Yesterday, Alice, Gil and I went to Bricktown and had lunch and then walked around and took pictures . . . we're all three camera nuts. There are two artificial waterfalls and this is one of them. Farther along on our …

  • As Promised

    Yes, I know they're a day late, but here are a couple pics of how the yard is covered in spider webs . . . or should I say stray strands of spider's webbing. These cosmos seeds also show how much of my yard was covered…

  • Here are just a few of the shots I took in my garden yesterday. As you can see there were butterflies and beas everywhere. They are really out in force right now. Another thing we have an abundance of right no…

  • Another industrious bee gathering nectar from a perfect Gaillardia. In an earlier blog Gil_L commented about how the Oklahoma State Capital dome is painted using the colors of the Gaillardia . . . one of our State flow…

  • Our garden club took on the four small flower beds at the entrance to Superbia, a retirement village where my mother lives. It's one of our "projects". We got a lot done today, but we're not completely finished with the…

  • The Gillardia is Oklahoma's state flower . . . well at least ONE of them. I forget how the story goes now, but somehow we have TWO state flowers. I love this one. And Alice tells me that Gillardia are prone to have f…

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