Oh Boy I took a lot of photos Sunday!!

I grabbed the 300mm lens and headed to the property but before I got there I found a few photos on the way in the driveway...

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Buckeye Butterfly on Coreopsis blooms

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The Coreopsis are in full bloom and absolutely gorgeous!

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Mexican hat or also known as a prairie coneflower

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Sorry I couldn't help myself I got shutter happy!!

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A member of the Aster family and there are a lot of members of the Aster family!

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Then I got down to the property and worked on cleaning the pool for a couple of hours and decided to take a break and grabbed the camera again...I am just astounded by the beauty of all the different wildflowers...Wow!

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Oh and lets not forget the hundreds of butterflies fluttering around. The wind was blowing and they were having a hard time but still managing to plunder the flower blooms.

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Butterflies Butterflies everywhere!

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And all other sorts of bugs too...love his colors!

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A Buckeye, I love their markings!

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A little white hiding

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I love spring!

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The Bluebonnets were pretty but these Indian blanket blooms are stunning too.

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The Toad Flax is still blooming too.

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Yarrow

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Bull nettle

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Night shade

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Yellow Prickly Pear Cactus

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One of my favorite photos of the day! I took this on the road coming home. Love living in the country where you can stop your vehicle in the middle of the road to take photos and not worry about anyone running you over!

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Daisy

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BeeBalm, another one of my favorite photos!

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Daisy bloom

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Queen Ann Lace

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The Dew Berries are ripe

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Sulphur

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Skipper

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We then headed over to Fred's parents ranch near the San Antonio River

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Michael had a lady bug on his hand but before I could focus on it, it flew off...

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One of many trails over there...

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Blue curl

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Texas Emporer

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I had a lot of fun taking photos as you can see, it was hot and muggy but the sun was shining. I also went and had a steroid shot in my heel and it seemed to help. It was hurting but no way like it was, I felt so much relief!! It was good to get out and walk and explore with the camera!!

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Ruben our Great Nephew...

My nephew Andy asked if I'd come take photos of his son Ruben for his 3rd (I think) Birthday Party Invitations...Here's a few of my favorites. I took over 500 hundred and got those narrowed down to 280+ and then chose these...He's a cutie and a little pistol too!

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Howdy!

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Love his grin in this one...he's up to no good!

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Fix'in to round up the calves

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Checking each other out

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So serious when it comes to roping!

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Hope y'all have a great weekend!!

Chris's last night with us...

April 4th 2012, She had an early flight out of San Antonio Thursday so we spent the night in San Antonio...

Chris loved the Palm trees...I did to when I first arrived here over 12 yrs ago but now I'm so use to them that I hardly pay attention to them

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Our Hotel, nice little place and only 10 minutes from the airport

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Love that smile and miss her laugh, we had so much fun while she was here.

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Michael loved her too...loved her so much he didn't want to let her go!

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He can be a brat at times but he's a cute one!!

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We are so glad Chris came to visit and hope she comes back soon!!

Love ya Chris thanks for coming and for all the fun and laughs!

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Misc photos that Chris took while here with her Sony camera

A deer in the brush up by the house.

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An old Pontiac at a restaurant in Victoria Tx.

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Me on the Ferry at Port Aransas

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Me at Mustang Island, Port A Texas

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Another shot of me in the surf working on the camera settings...

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Me on the Huron flats trail at Aransas Nation Wildlife Refuge. Chris sure was having fun taking photos of me, argh!! LOL...

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One of the gators we found at ANWR

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The sun streaming through the clouds and shining down on the Bay

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The walkway up to the large observation deck at ANWR

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Deer crossing the road at ANWR

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Brush fire tanker truck in Austwell Texas

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Cattle guard on a country road

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One of my landlords cows as we were driving down the driveway...

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I think Chris had fun it sure looks like it by all the photos she's taken! We sure do miss her.

Our latest project...

I cringed when Fred cleared the area...bye bye flowers and in their place we have a cover for my tractor, lol...

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She's loving the shade and cover from the weather. There are 12 tie downs on it and we are going to cement steel post/braces in on the legs just as a secondary precaution...Fred is tickled, he's been wanting something to put the tractor and equipment under for awhile and we finally managed to do it!! Well have it done, anyways!

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See she is smiling...Happy tractor!

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Misc photos from this past week...

The wildflowers around the pool are being cleared off. I'm fix'in to do a little bit of work and it's really hard to walk around the pool when you have wildflowers that are knee high. In fact today I got most of them cleared away, sheesh it was hot! It was really nice to take a dip in the pool afterwards and cool off :o) I didn't spot any snakes either, yeah!

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I couldn't help myself...My tractor sure looks sexy in all those wildflowers, lol...When I sent the photo to Fred with the above phrase he came back and said "it's a He and he's all mine and get him out of those wildflowers!", Ha! I told him lets see who's put the most hours on her?

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The Indian blankets are blanketing the pasture...sweet!

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Loved the sun beaming through the fog and Oak trees!

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Julie bird is enjoying all the green stuff. Hope we get some rain soon it's getting a bit dry out again, ekk...

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Wildflowers here at the house along the driveway...it's just beautiful!

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I had to take this photo as sometime in the future those Oaks across the way will be tore down for a natural gas pipeline. So sad, some of the Oaks are 200 yrs old or older. I hate seeing mature healthy Oak trees get tore down. If they put the line another 200ft to the NW where there is open land these trees would be safe! Guess it's too much trouble for a Pipeline company that makes Billions of dollars per quarter to even consider saving these Oak trees, sigh!

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