Great Blue Heron

Ohhhh! Looky what we saw in the yard!

We were sitting in our TV room with patio doors looking out into the back yard, and down swoops a Great Blue Heron!

Click on the pic, and look where the red arrow points.

Here's a zoom pic of him/her standing very still in the pond. Thanks to him/her, we have very few frogs in the pond. We've seen him/her several times this summer.
These birds are practically as tall as me! They're huge! It must have stood there motionless for an hour before it flew off for othere feeding areas.

Sunday post

It's been a busy first day of my weekend.
We unloaded a bunch of stuff from the mo-ho in advance of our trip to Canada. If we get picked to be searched, we don't want any more stuff for them to look thru then they need to.
I also trimmed up our big old Crab Apple Tree.
As you can see in the pics,
the branches were hanging on the house.
So I got the ladder, and up on the roof,
and trimmed them way back.
And lucky me,
I almost slipped on a bunch of apples,
(this tree gets millions of 1 inch apples)
and almost lost my balance!
But I took out 3 armfuls of branches.
And cleaned out all the debris from the valley.
I also cleaned the bathroom,
(god I hate cleaning!)
So a busy first day off.
Tomorrow, we get some of our money
turned into Canadian for our trip.

And here's a couple of
pics of the yard.
First up, me in the shade garden
with some potted Coleus.
(sorry for the fuzzy pic,
Craig can't hold the camera still!)
Then,
me with my Sedum Garden.
I have over a dozen varieties in here.

And I'll talk to you more later!

Oh..... and after Craig did massive bookkeeping,
(quarterly taxes!)
He fixed a delicious Swiss Steak and sauteed mushrooms
and mashed potatoes!

Funny Friday

Another busy work week almost done! So on with our ff.........

A t-shirt seen at the Navy Pier Beer Garden.....



It's a picture of a great white shark. Let's do lunch!
Craig got a chuckle seeing this, cause he's also a Jaws fan.

Have a great weekend!

more trip pics

A few more pics of our trip.

This is a glass block fountain tower in Milliniuem Park.

There are 2 on oppisite sides of the very shallow pool.

Notice how the kids love playing in it!

a ship coming in at Navy Pier.

This is their giant outdoor amphitheater.

This is where Oprah is having her season premiere

with 150 Olympians.

And back at Indiana Dunes, the beach

from the dune between it and the campground.

Isn't this a beautiful beach?

And of course, yours truely!

Click on this pic and

look very close, and

you'll see the Chicago

skyline in the background.

Just shows how close we were to the city!

As I downloaded pics from the camera, I find this one of my feet....
I'm beginning to wonder if Craig has a foot fetish.......hmmmmm

trip # 10!

Yep! we just returned from our 10th trip, Indiana Dunes State Park, with a day trip to Chicago!

Surprisingly, this is gonna be a Craig picture post! He does not like his picture taken, but I somehow got a few pics of him in Chicago!
We had a great time as usual. (But it doesn't take much to entertain us!)
And here's a few pics of Craig as I promised...
Here we are at Millennium Park where we had lunch at the Park Grill.. ( the bean is in the background) Did I mention they have really good food? And it's a great place to people watch, being right on Michigan Ave.



And here we are at Navy Pier! In the background is the Beer Garden, and free live music all summer on the weekends. And boy was it hot! But we had a nice cool shade site with a lake breeze and beer!!

And finally, at the beach, at the camp ground, a pic of Craig after I told him, no, you won't see any shark attacks here. There are no sharks in Lake Michigan!

More trip pics later!