beach-fest

The little festival in Matthews was called BeachFest, despite that the area is landlocked!  It was still fun!

catnap

annoyed

He really doesn't appreciate it when I interrupt his dinner (also known as stealing the bird food!)

after the rain

perky

progress

I think they're becoming friends!

peek-a-boo!

carolina afternoon

So much of what I love about this area:  blue skies, trees, and blooming flowers.  This is the bloom that first showed up here. 

re-visit

Our second visit to this church, can't get over the amazing and beautiful organ. 

visiting neighbor

This neighbor cat comes to the window to visit Tigger, but upon receiving an earful of nasty noise,  slinks away.

more jungle cat

He continues to thoroughly enjoy the outdoors, after almost 9 months of being inside. 

no idea!

Absolutely no idea what this is!

new bloom

I'm enjoying the on-going process of discovering new plants blooming in our new yard!

sanctuary

We visited a huge and beautiful church this morning.  Amazing windows. Amazing pipe organ.

jungle cat

Tigger has been an outdoor cat for 10 years, and though I thought it best to keep him as an inside cat in the States... he convinced me that he needed to be about his business in the yard!

Friday, friends, fun!

colors of spring

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fresh and new

blooming near our mailbox...

familiar, from afar

Fun to find this in my neighborhood grocery store-- this is the butter we used in Senegal!  (But it cost about 1/3 of what they're asking here!)

newbie

This cheery little guy was a new visitor to our yard this week!

Knights game!

We got to go Sunday afternoon to the game that had been hailed-out on Saturday.  Fun to see Homer the Dragon and watch the Knights beat the Norfolk Tides!

hailstorm!

 We were grilling our bratwurst for supper, getting ready to go to a baseball game... when the storm hit!  We've never seen hail so big!  We were thankful that our car was finally parked in the garage and that we had no damage!

Thai House

We had supper at the Thai House restaurant, and loved the way the food was beautiful as well as delicious!

unique

The only one (so far at least!) Vibrant and cheery, beautiful. 

visitors

still loving these visits, and trying to get a great picture of them!

pretty yummy

cloudy

I'm most often looking down and around, but when I looked UP tonight I was so impressed by the clouds.  And they caused a lot of problems for parts of this city later in the night, apparently it got pretty bad! 

junco

isn't he a cutie?

blue sky beauty

love it.  can't get tired of it. 

azalea

Just can't believe these pretty things are in my yard!