Mystery Solved

Suze correctly guessed it was a flower and KellyRae narrowed it down. We have to be really careful walking around the back 40, coz the prickly pears are sneaky. And if Duller happens to mow over one, the pieces produce more. I have yet to try a tuna salad, but I hear they're mighty tasty. Just make sure you get rid of ALL the 'bones'. 8-}

Mystery solved

KellyRae is right! It's some moss on the underside of a piece of tree scrap.


I dragged the tripod out and got as close as the camera would allow. Personally, I think my previous camera did much better macros. Aren't the flowers pretty, though? I mean, how cool is that? 8-]

If any of y'all know just what its specific name is, I'd be much interested to know.

Mystery solved

FC got it again. I actually thought this one would be a little harder. HA!


This volunteer showed up next to our bird feeders. I'd love to plant a whole field of them, but the ones I plant never do as well as those planted by the birds. Maybe I should just stick a few dozen feeders around the back forty. 8-]

Mystery revealed

The dogwood blossoms are gone, but the wisteria is still lingering, but not for long. All sorts of ants are cruising the purple variety.

The whites have mostly fizzled by now. The butterflies and bees made hay over them while the sun shined.

I've been really busy the past few weeks getting ready to list our house again... and this week preparing for a long weekend. Please forgive my skimpy posts and scant responses. I'll get back in the swing soonly. Just remember I still love y'all loads. 8-]

Have a JESUS-filled day! ^i^

Sophie's bloomers - leg 2

False Foxglove
Agalinis sp.

Blue Anise Sage

Salvia guaranitica 'Black and Blue'

Crape Myrtle
(Lagerstroemia indica)

Mexican Petunia
Ruellia brittoniana


Mexican False Heather
Cuphea hyssopifolia


and last, but certainly not least, the famous...

Blue Curls
Trichostema dichotomum

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Well, I finally did it. My yellow truck is no longer sitting in our driveway. *sniffffffff* With no relief in sight of the gas pumps, I really need something that does better than 20mpg. The last weekend of the month is the perfect time for car trading and everything fell into place so perfctly, it just had to be. We stopped first at the Chevy dealer, where a snooty salesman informed us that he had nothing in our price range. Well, I can take a hint. Far be it from me to waste a used car salesman's precious time. So we bopped down the road to the Hyundai lot. There were two definite possibilities. One had already been marked down about $1000 and rode a lot nicer than the other. And its much plainer stereo system worked better. (Dud music can be a deal-breaker.) We told the very nice salesman exactly what we wanted for the truck and how much we wanted to pay for the car. Their counter offer would have required around $1790 from us. We countered their counter and their next CO involved our paying only TTT, a total of about $872. Hmmm... make it an even $500 OOP and we have a deal. OK? Done! In the end, we had to shell out an extra $40, coz the state no longer sends you a title when you pay off your car loan. It's all online now. So the dealer has to do a little extra 'legwork''to get the truck title. Memo to us.... request that piece of paper next time.

Here's the really cool part. Duller has been doing a lot of traveling this month and is about to get a 'reimbursement' of just about the exact amount we just spent. He never spends the entire per diem, and his car gets great mileage, so most of that is 'gravy'. Plus, we got a refund today for the GAP insurance we were forced to acquire with the truck loan. That alone covers more than half. Ain't God good?!

So, I came home with a smaller car, one year younger, with half the miles and fairly close to twice the fuel efficiency. Reckon I'll get over losing Ol' Yeller after a few fill-ups. 8-]