Different Pictures

You are really supposed to photograph the 

moon in context with something else, so it's majesty will be apparent. 

This is the unframed uncut version from this morning, with a shorter lens. 

Beautiful! 

We had an Easter morning suprise!

(that's our side yard) 

In one day, we had rain, snow... and then sunny with mild 

temps, so that the dogs and I had a good walk after I had 

gone to church and Keith and I had had brunch. 

The new portion of the park at Basehor was landscaped 

on Friday, and some terracing was done. 

Just in time! 

There was a runoff creek running through the old and new sections of the park, spilling into the creek whose treeline you see in the distance. 

Park employees have also installed numerous benches on which to rest. 

Last year I had tomatoes in the big barrels on either side of our garage. 

This year, they are planted with perennials, a sage and a heuchera on each side. 

The neat thing is, I got each of these perennials at Grass Pad Nursery, they were 

last year's plants just coming back to life. 

$2.00 a piece. 

Uh huh. 

They will be joined by geraniums. 

This boy was on a pole on Leavenworth Road on our way to the park. 

And this grackle and about a hundred of his friends were in the yard when we got home. 

And this robin serenaded us from above. 

I have been trying to get a Western Meadowlark, and a Killdeer. 

I did pretty well with the meadowlark today.  I LOVE their song. 

We see you, Mama.  (click to enlargen) 

This is our friend hanging out at 155th and Fairmount. 

About 4:30, the phone rang.  It was Keith, who was coming 

home from the store with Chinese for dinner. 

He said "Mary Ann, get the camera and come out through the 

side door, the hawk is here". 

This is the Coopers Hawk that was hiding in the tree on Friday. 

He is watching for cotton rats on the patio. 

I was all Stealth Operations behind him, but he eventually flew. 

These guys were not coming back down, no sirree... until he was good and GONE.