Some Serene Pictures

They're baaaccckkkkk....

The geese, I mean. 

I think this is the mom and dad and the babies from this spring, but, if so... 

several babies are missing. 

This bird was WAYYYY across the pond. 

It stood like that, staring at the top of the dam, for almost 30 minutes. 

Maybe the others were over the dam on the other side. 

The others finally got worried, and hit the water to go see what was up. 

Whereupon goose six slid down into the water and joined them.  That still left one of the original six babies missing, or... one of the adults. 

The pond was so peaceful. 

We had a storm this morning, and the huge lilly pads had drops all over them. 

The spent pods are beautiful in their own right. 

The buds are beautiful, too! 

There were lots of happy tour kids today. 

Even the older kids enjoy riding the train! 

Others were walking from building to building... 

Or stopping to take pictures, as this man was. 

We had strong storms this morning, and right now, are expecting more tonight. 

I hope we have a little cooler temps tomorrow when I will be at the Ag Hall all day. 

A Soggy Week

I'm afraid to say 

"When will it ever end?" for fear of 

having the kind of weather our Texas and Oklahoma friends are 

having.  A good friend, Lorie, sent me pictures of her street 

underwater today!  So far, none of my immediate friends has suffered 

hardships, but it is all around them and their lives are affected. 

Still praying! 

Can you see the hawklet flapping his now large wings

in the tree above the nest?  Both of them are up and moving 

around in the tree... they may have flown today. 

They won't go far, as mom and dad will keep feeding them. 

Here's a mature hawk taking off last night.  I had to fiddle with 

the picture bedause the light was so bad. 

And we go from the big birds to two tiny visitors !

Today was spent at my "job"... at the National Agricultural Center... 

and even though it rained rather steadily all day, our General Factotum, 

Ray, (also the beekeeper) obliged these adults and kids (in the back) with two 

spins around the track. 

Toot! Toot! 

There they go!  

That's an original depot building that was donated to the Ag Hall.... and is going to be re-painted this summer by members of a model train club who will be moving their displays into it's basement. 

They will also have a large model train that runs in and out of the back of the building (non-rideable). 

The baby geese are getting so big!  

Don't they look like delicate, tiny little dancers? 

I saw this beautiful alligator turtle on the way home.  If I had had a shovel, I would have helped it across the gravel road.  I pray it made it.  Last week, I saw a dead female in the same spot, and she had been full of eggs.  I tried to nudge it on it's way, but I frankly did not want to get bitten. 

I'm hoping that no one deliberately hit it. 

Tomorrow I am helping again at the Ag Hall, as they were 

short of volunteers.  I have met the nicest people there!