Trick or Treat?

Happy Birthday Annalise!!!

Holding you for the first time was so precious!

Discovering your every mood, charm and personality! Cute Baby!

One of my favorite photos........how precious your are.

Hope you have a Happy, Happy Day........Dance your day away!!!!

We love you and send our blessings to you today and always

Grandma and Grandpa

A special thanks to my "blogger" buddy, Patty Lincoln for the " One Lovely Blog "award!

And a special Get Well to you too!!!

Elk Calf at Play

This is so fun. Got it thru my email so I have no idea who's video it is.

Where does all my time go??? Yes, I remember fondly those "lazy daisy days" of rest and rehab. But, life is good....I got to spend time with Stayton on Friday, my friend Andrea on Saturday (4 hours at the Village Inn) thought they may ask for booth rent before we left there. And we had friends over for Sunday dinner, after church, 3 hours just wasn't enought time, so hope we get together again soon.
I'm sure my girls remember fondly, those after church Sunday dinners we use to have several times a month........sure was fun. Tomorrow is a church fellowship dinner, I'm pouring thru the recipes to see what I'll make.........got to make a good impression, it's my first time cooking up something for this group.
Have the rest of a wonderful weekend!!!!

P.S. I decided on Chicken, Brocolli & Rice Casserole and a Pea Salad too.

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

This rock formation reminded me of this scripture. Isn't is just amazing how these rocks are cut as if placed upright there like a choir to sing His praises.

Drive to Black Mountain

The colors were about gone, some had never happened, due to a "blight" on the aspen trees. They lost their leaves before they changed color. I like this picture with the on the hill in the background.

The aspens here are just getting some color.

As we got higher on the mountain, into the thick trees, snow. Before long it will be deep enough that only 4-wheel drives will be able to get in here. The hunters were already setting up camp for this weekend season.

Happy Birthday Kody #20

You're still beautiful!!! We love you, Grandma & Grandpa

Rural America! Still part of the "Old West" I still get excited about driving thru a herd of cattle, or sheep and in May we can drive thru the biggest horse drive in America. Mother's Day weekend is traditional for moving the Sombrero Ranch horses from their winter range to the ranch to prepare for summer horse rentals and then into hunting season. They usually move over 300 head, right thru the small town of Maybell Colorado. Dudes pay lots of money to participate in a real horse drive. It's getting more attention each year and is becoming a great spectator event. It's pretty breathtaking seeing that many horses streaming down Hwy 40.

Anyhow, here's a few pictures I got this weekend as we drove up to Black Mountain to catch some colors, most of that we missed, but this was still fun. You don't realize how big these bulls are till your right next to them.

And I had to get the cowboy. That's pretty western and rural, and yes you see locals still dressed just like this, sitting in the coffee shop with all the answers on how to "fix" this country.

A few years ago while waiting in line to vote I heard someone come in wearing spurs....yes, spurs, those apparatus we wear when we ride, should we have a horse that needs a little more encouragement. Before I turned around I had a pretty good idea who it was. We have one eccentric old cowboy dude that still dresses the part and usually wears spurs, although he probably hasn't been on his horse for weeks. Anyway, I turned around and it wasn't him, but our local "Brand Inspector"....in this part of the country we still have Brand Inspector who check livestock to insure it's been legally obtained.

I'll post the "fall" colors later.