Our Summer Visitors

  We have a fairly large population of deer that summer in our neighborhood.  Often times some of them will come and eat and siesta in our back yard during the day.  Yesterday was one of those days.  We had two fairly large female deer and two young deer - one a young buck. They …

Orchid

My orchid has added a couple more blooms in the last week so I had to take more photos of it. Maralee

Cattails

When I was in elementary school in Minnesota, many, many years ago, we used to paint cattails.  They grew wild just about everywhere.  Now you're not allowed to cut them, but I still appreciate them. Now that I'm living in Oregon, seeing all of these cattails bring back a little bit of that childhood. Maralee