Visiting my parents!

We spent 3 nights with my parents this week. It was nice to be out in the country. We went out to eat, went shopping, worked in the garden, played basketball, visited Mamaw Beeker & drove/rode the Mule. Enjoy some pics!

Mom's peonies.

Dark pink peonies.

Light pink peonies.

Buttercups.

Irises & buttercups.

Pretty flowers but not sure what they are.

Pansies mom got from my Brother & Sister-in-law.

Sunset.

Martin.

Martin coming out of her house.

Another sunset.

M - O - O - N, that spells "moon"!

Playing basketball.

Playing Basketball.

Iris.

Iris.

Red headed finch.

Woodpecker.

Woodpecker from other side.

Something I've not seen before, a dove ON the feeder.

Papaw taking my kids & the neighbor girl, Danica, for a ride.

Papaw's weird looking cat. It has a tiger face & tail but its body looks Siamese.

 

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Blessed by beauty!

I live in the city, yet I'm blessed by the beauty of God's Creation all around me!

My first Iris to bloom!

My snowball bush.

Close-up of the snowballs!

The first bloom on the rose bush I got from my Mamaw B's!

Peonies & Irises about to bloom!

Japanese Snowball bush.

Close-up of Japanese Snowball Bush.

Shamrock plant.

Bloom on Shamrock plant.

My back fence line with lots of flowers close to blooming!

Yellow iris ready to bloom!

Delicate buttercup.

Bird in my feeder.

Robin on my swing!

Duck in pond behind our house.

Goose near pond behind the house.

The moon!

If you look close, you can see the outline of the dark part of the moon & a star below!

Another pic of the moon! We spent 10 minutes outback last night gazing at the moon & stars!

 

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Silver Lake

When I first met Hubby, his parents' owned a small cottage on Silver Lake in north central Indiana. They sold it a few years later. Today, we went there & walked down memory lane with Hubby.

We stopped at Jeff's Mom's cousin Ruth's house.

This is the beautiful view from her backyard.

Hubby & kids on Ruth's dock.

A closer view of the beautiful trees on the other side of the lake.

2 houses down from Ruth's is the cottage that was Jeff's parents. This is the lakeside view. It's been added on to. The screened in porch side of the cottage is new.

Another view of back of the cottage.

Love this pic of the lake with the clouds reflecting on it.

This is Hubby & Ruth.

This is our whole family with Ruth.

The front of the cottage.

Another front view of cottage.

In this pic, the flat roofline area is the added on part.

The people who bought the cottage from Jeff's parents then bought the lots across the street.

They tore down 3 houses & built a garage & some yard area.

We had a great time walking down memory lane with Hubby tonight.

 

 

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