WILD ROSES AND PONY AT 4 WEEKS

The top picture shows how tall he is by The Mayor (or Mater, as Gavyn calls her) , then the wild roses by their pen and last, a curious look at the camera.

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SKY AFTER THE STORM

I was very lucky to be able to capture these before they vanished. 

So many beautiful sights,
so little time.

Nature's own
fantasies!!

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IT IS NEVER TOO LATE

Remembering America's Finest

"We didn’t start celebrating Memorial Day until after the Civil War, but it was during that conflict, November of 1863, that President Abraham Lincoln gave his historic Gettysburg Address and eloquently laid out the simple yet profound idea that lies at the heart of this day:

'It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.'

“The last full measure of devotion”—a beautiful phrase describing a tragic consequence. And while the fight has moved from within our own country to conflicts overseas, the giving of your life in service to your country remains a uniquely sacred act. American soldiers are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the sad reality is those are not the last two wars that will ever need fighting. On this Memorial Day and all the days before and after it, we must remember those in our military who bravely served and never made it home."
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~~~From Glen Beck's newsletter                               Photo by Bev Caligaris

TWO WEEKS OLD ALREADY!!

You should see him Prance!!  Reared up on his Mom today and she kicked at him.  What fun to watch him grow.

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COPY CATS?

 Think of the money we could save on furniture!?!




Photo by
Brandy Peek

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THE COMMON PEOPLE

"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors  or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."~~Walt Whitman

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MINI BABY IS NOW A WEEK OLD

I got some pictures of  the mini baby while he was running today, but none at the right time.  Maybe I'll leave him alone this next week...

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I love this passage from "The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings:

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"A mark was on him from the day's delight, so that all his life,

when April was a thin green and the flavor of rain was on his tongue,

an old wound would throb and a nostalgia would fill him

for something he could not quite remember."

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