Trips and Birthdays

Time for a new post. Wish I had some beautiful scenes. Recently visited my sis and took some fun pics of her dog, Riley and cat, Boo. They get along very well. I enjoyed watching them chase each other. When tired of the game, Boo calls a halt by putting up a little black paw toward Riley's face. Riley stops immediately. Boo is a perfect Halloween cat with orange eyes. Riley had an eye infection at birth and lost an eye. The other pics are of my GD's 10th B'day and July 4th party. The baby is GGD with blue icing.

A view from the pool

It was a wonderful evening for a swim.

Summer visitors...

Here's some of my visitors in the yard this summer.... Foxy is grazing on the bird seed...

Woody usually comes down the tree to wait til I throw the bird seed...last month there were three, but lately only have seen one...



This timid turtle strolled out of the wetlands last month...have not seen any turtles in the yard for several years...
















And this year we have an abundance of chipmunks...they dart in & out of the rocks to get some birdseed too...

Everyone loves a parade

About this time every year for as long as I can remember, the Barnum Festival takes place in Bridgeport to commemorate P.T. Barnum, born on July 5, who while not a Bridgeport native, adopted the city...there are many events planned, culminating in both fireworks & a parade...the 63th annual parade happened today...it was a little drizzly & damp, but there were floats, drum corps, balloons, dancers, clowns, the obligatory public officials, & all in all...a nice day for those who did line the streets along the parade route...

Summertime - livin is easy--

We are getting close to end of this last post. So I putting something together quickly. I am just thinking today of the vast differences in our temperatures and humidity. Coreen is having very wet and cool weather. Carol is having hot and humid weather. We are having heat and dry weather.

Road Trip June 2011

John and I take a lot of road trips. I enjoy scoping out the passing cars license plates to see what states they are from. Whenever we cross a state line we sing a song for the state we are entering. For Texas, it is "The eyes of Texas which BTW is UT Austin's school song - hook em horns. When entering OK - of course we sing the song from the Broadway musical and Movie "Oklahoma" and so on. We sang the Tennessee Waltz for Tenn and we had one for NC too - just can't remember it. I decided to take pics of the state signs as we entered. I missed a few - but got Tenn. Ark. and NM. Also a pic of CeCe.

Driving through Yale

Yale University surrounds the city

of New Haven, CT...

It's architecture defines its character....the ivy league historical

school, together with modern developments...

There is always construction there,

ever expanding....& traffic at all times...It is right in downtown New Haven....