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Catawba Visitors
While visiting my parents earlier this month, I was able to take a few photos of some visitors to the house. I wanted to share them with you today….. Baby blue birds in the house…..my father carefully opened the house so we could see if they had left the nest. We were pleasantly surprised to see the birds still in residence. They kept so very still while we were there ~ except the little guy in front did flinch a bit when I took this photo. Of course, there were hummingbirds….. There were butterflies visiting the butterfly bushes….. ….and our friend the Polyphemus Moth….it was brand new…. This little green guy…..each morning…
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Heading Home….
….after sad goodbyes. 🙁
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Outer Banks
I am spending some time with my brother’s family in a house they rented at Nags Head, a wonderful beach located on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I will return Sunday afternoon… with maybe a photograph or two. 😉
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A Few Images
I think the spring cleaning bug has bitten me. I have been cleaning almost non stop since I got home from my vacation in Catawba. Not only cleaning, but reorganizing and rearranging. I have been going and going….I’m happy with the results, but it has taken a great deal of my time and left me quite exhausted. I’m posting a few images from my trip. Actually, there are not tons of photos this time. I did take quite a few, but not as many as the last time. One reason ~ unbelievable pollen while we were there kept us in the house a good deal of the time. We did…
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Setting Up House
My parents have a couple of blue bird houses set up on their property here in Catawba, South Carolina. Meet the new Blue Bird residents of this house….they have built their nest and laid some eggs. They will soon have four children ~ possibly more before all is said and done. This morning was spent lounging around the human house…..a very relaxing morning. Later, we went to the movies and saw “The Bounty Hunter” with Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston. It wasn’t a bad movie ~ kind of cute with some funny moments, but I have to agree with my father ~ they took a 30 minute story and stretched it out over an hour…
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Disappointed
We drove over to Lancaster in search of their almost 200 year old courthouse ~ which by the way was the last location a witch trial was held in the United States ~ but it had massive construction going on all around it, and on the building itself. It had been damaged by a fire not so long ago and repair work was well under way as well as the construction of another very large building right next door. I didn’t even stop to take a photo because it would have been disappointing ~ so I’m sharing a photo from our hike at Landsford Canal State Park with you today. This is a…
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Scenes From Our Hike
Today we went shopping and out to eat in Charlotte, North Carolina. It has been a long day so I’m going to feature a couple of photos from our hike yesterday……. We had just been talking about the lack of any bird or squirrel’s nests in the area and decided it was because the eagles nest was in these woods. Not too long after that, we noticed a rather ragged looking squirrels nest….which turned out to be not so far from the eagles nest. Once we saw the proximity of the squirrels nest to the eagles….we figured out why it was so ragged looking….possibly ravaged by the eagle searching for…
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Relax
We arrived safe and sound….an uneventful trip that seemed shorter than the hours we traveled. This is the message above the whirlpool tub in my extra large bathroom off of my extra large bedroom taken at sunrise today….. ….and for the next 7 days, this is exactly what I will be doing. 8)
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On The Road Again
We are on the road again……heading to Catawba, South Carolina in a short while. And check out the forecast for the coming week…..highs in the 80º range! I have to find my shorts!! 🙂
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Road Trip ~ Conclusion
As I conclude the tale of our road trip, I wanted to share a few more random photos with you. There was a full moon during my visit and try as I might, I was unable to get a photo of one that I was really happy with while it was dark….but I did get one early in the morning on the day we left… I’m still a work in progress when it comes to moon shots, but I was pretty happy with this one. 🙂 There were also some pretty amazing sunsets…. There was a shopping day while we were there of course. Seriously, have you ever known teen aged girls to go somewhere…