Nature Preserve [MI trip 2010]

Our visit to a nature preserve a few miles from my Grandparents' house was full of

 sand

  stones

skipping

spiders

 and 'shrooms.

Spectacular!

My Grandma & Grandpa's Flower Garden [MI trip 2010]

I took these pictures in my Grandma and Grandpa's flower garden.

The flowers are just as bright and beautiful as I remember them being when I was a girl.

just add garlic and stir

yellow slicers, romas, cherries, and large-leaf Italian basil

Dear Miss Spider

Dear Miss Spider;

I ignored your web whilst reaching for a tomato early this morning, because the out of doors is your home and you are likely helping to manage the insect population in my back yard.  That was before I saw you.

Then you scurried out from under your leaf.

 

Miss Spider, I have decided that you are so spectacular, you are welcome to have that entire tomato plant all to yourself.  I am certainly not going to be putting my hands anywhere near you or your web ever, ever again. 

Very Respectfully,
Me

excited to begin a new assignment