Does it get any better than this?

Lately it's too hot to be outside during most of the day. We've been at 100 degrees F or more every day for at least a week and not much hope of anything less anytime soon. But once the sun starts down, it becomes a little more bearable. And when we get to see a sunset like this one, it's worth the wait!

ABC Wednesday -- B is for Bird Watching

Am I watching the birds? Are they watching me? Are we both watching the sunrise? YES!
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Odd Shots Monday -- Time for upgrade?

I think my froggy friend has outgrown his quarters, don't you? He looks a little befuddled by it.
Head on over to Katney's Kaboodle for more Odd Shots this Monday!

Saturday Photo Hunt: What IS that??

Gross as it sounds....it's a mealy worm farm! We raise them through 2 or 3 stages until they become worms to feed to the blue-birds!

TnChick hosts the Photo Hunt....go see more strange things today!

Sky Watch Friday -- Black Wing Tipped Pelican

I got caught unprepared for this Friday's post....I have plenty of new shots but they're at home and I'm stuck in Austin tonight! So I pulled out all the CompactFlash cards in my camera bag and started searching. Here's one I took on Jan 16, 2004.

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Wishing a Sunny Happy Birthday to Dana!

Today's the birthday of one of the sunniest, happiest, friendliest, most giving people I know. She is the daughter I would have chosen if that were the way it works!!

Stopped yesterday near Waxahachie to shoot a green field with the wonderful sky you get a glimpse of here (maybe you'll see that on Friday!) and there was this ONE sunflower there. Since Dana stands out in her field, too, I thought this would be appropriate! Don't read anything into the BUG, tho....unless it's the committment!

ABC Wednesday---A for Aley UMC

From the Texas Handbook Online:
ALEY, TEXAS. Aley is on Farm Road 85 twenty-seven miles northwest of Athens in far northwestern Henderson County. The settlement was evidently founded soon after the Civil War. A post office operated there from 1894 to 1907. In the early 1900s J. O. Hall and W. C. Higgins operated a local general store, and by 1910 the settlement had a combination church and school, a store operated by James Burns, and a population of twenty-five. In the mid-1930s it had a population of sixty-five, two churches, a store, and a school. After World War II the population dropped to fifty and the school closed. In the early 1990s a cemetery and two stores remained. In 2000 the population was twenty.

Today the area seems to have been incorporated into the city of Seven Points. But there are still a couple of churches with the name Aley....this one is Aley Methodist Church and I know a few really fine folks there!

P.S. I've discovered that there's been a big change to the ABC Wednesday process and I haven't figured it out yet. So I won't be linked there .... but I'm still going to count this one and will be ready next Wednesday!