Grasshopper Quote

This is from this Monday's Grasshopper Note by John Morgan:

Nothing says "inspirational quote" like a pretty landscape. :-) Photo by Andrew Meade.

Bingo & Tabby

So many pictures & so little time yesterday to post! So here's Part 2. 

Sometimes Bingo still likes to go down our old, pre-lake trail:

Jumping OVER the logs, not on.

Hugging trees.

*sniff*

Tabby comes to join us.

*scritchy-scratch*

Looking very sphinxy.

 Out the front door:

And then down to the lake:

Look at this!

At first I thought they were bugs; but they are teeny-tiny toads the size of my pinky nail.  (That's my index finger in the photo). So cute!  I'm really care walking around because I don't want to step on them!

 Bingo jumping on the logs:

Never gets old. 

 And on another one:

And again:

On the pier, but she just thinks it's there for her to get to the grass:

See? In the grass. But, oh! Guess what I have down here? Jewel Weed. Woo-hoo!

These are Mississippi water lilies, I think. 

Another gift from Composer Brother.

And the lake. Mini lily pads along the shore.

Back over the logs:

With all the rain we've had, this area is less boggy, and more creeky-brookish:

Imagine you can hear the water running.  :-) 

 More grass-eating:

I'm noticing she's getting a bit greyer under the chin. 

Aaaaaand over the log: 

Love it here. Someone asked me how big the lake was. Whatever is 2 inches beyond a pond!

Here's Tabby on a fallen tree:

When I first saw this, I thought, "Wow. Look how that tree fell with its branches on either side of that tree. Lucky tree!" And then I realized, that the tree prolly grew up between the already-fallen tree. Yeah, that was my Mensa moment. 

Rocks waiting to go in the labyrinth.

And back in the yard.  :-)

M&M

You may have noticed 2 Millie posts from Saturday. I've been organizing M&M Mondays, and those were in my drafts folder, never published. I didn't realize that I had published them, and then I just put them in to the M&M Mondays page in chronological order. Reading thru all the posts made me feel closer to them again. Missing them makes me miss Barkley & Remi, and it makes me love Bingo all the more. I had a friend visit over the weekend and we were walking Bingo up the drive and I had this realization--declaration, really--that I can't imagine my life without a dog. I'll always have at least one. Altho, I keep thinking that the older I get, perhaps the smaller my dogs will get so I can lift them if I need to. In 30 years I'll be with miniature poodles & chi-wow-wows. Anyway, just wanted to offer a bit of clarification for those wondering, What the what? And now, here's a picture of a flower:

Composer brother helped me plant this last year. And by "helped," I mean, he did it.

Bingo on Monday

This is going to be a quickie post!

Nephew RoRo with Bingo

*smooch*

 See this guy in my driveway???

Yikes!

I managed to keep T-Bob away from the snapper!

Hullo.

 Later:

*sniff*

Really?  It crawled over the divider???  

Back tomorrow!