A day at Mustang Island, Port Aransas...

It was a nice little break and an absolutely gorgeous day! 

Mullet

Looking South

Looking North

Jetties at Mustang Island State Park

Oyster catcher

We had a great day and it was so hard to leave....

Hummingbirds fall migration

I have 5 feeders up right now and I am refilling them daily....

Coming in for a landing, love those little feet. 

They are so pretty

Two mature males at the feeder doesn't happen often...

Then the fight started, Uh Oh!

We really enjoying watching them....

Happy Birthday Michael!

He had a great day!

Loved his cake and shared his birthday with his Best Friend!!

Love you sunshine!

He's 13 years old!

He is my world and he is turning 13 (Saturday) WOW!!

More of a young adult than a teenager...He helps me out so much now and I love him for it...He is kind, he is loving, yes I get attitude from him but he's not mean...

I just took this photo at Lost Maples State Park this past week!! I love that little bit of sass he's giving me as him and Jenny wait for me to top the hill...

We had a very busy and awesome summer break! 

South Padre Island/Brownsville in June.

Smoky Mountain National Park/Chattanooga Tn/Gatlinburg Tn/Franklin N.C in July.

Texas Hill country/Vanderpool in August.

So many photos and so many memories!!

School starts Monday so back to the books!

He picked up his schedule and he's happy with his teachers, it's going to be a great year!

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Hope to start posting a few of our adventures soon....

Just a wee little (severe) Thunderstorm...

Last night (Friday) we had a storm move in, it was awesome! 

I sat outside for most of it, the lightning got a bit rough for a little bit and I decided it was better to be inside at that point. I did manage a few photos with the big camera, I took a lot with the cellphone too!

The chicken was taking a shower and checking our her reflection in the trucks bumper. She had me laughing. The rest of the chickens were under cover but not her.....

3 different times we got hail. Thankfully nothing too terrible bad. You can see the rain and the hail as the storm is almost past us. 

Our vegetable garden is doing really well. We planted it back at the end of March and I've only had to water twice. Love when we are getting rain.  

My girls, love them!

 And here are a few clouds after the storm passed...

Mamantus clouds, caused from cold air dropping into pockets of warm air...Michael was scared when he first saw them but once I explained what was happening he thought it was pretty cool...By all the photos I took you can tell I loved seeing them. 

Looking SouthWest.

Looking North.

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Fred was coming from work and was about 15 miles out and was looking at them too. He called to ask me if I was seeing them...

This was after the sun set..Love the pinks, salmon and blue colors...

We received 2 and 1/10th inches of rain, oh so nice!! 

We really needed the rain as we haven't been getting very much in our area!

Enjoy your weekend.

Playing with the Macro lens...

You couldn't miss the bright colors on the green tree.

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One snap is all I got and then he flew away.

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Cow-pen daisies.

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Long legged Fly, love his colors

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Pipevine Swallowtail, there are a lot of them. They love the wildflowers.

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The wildflowers are loving the rain we got. We are having to mow down two sections of them as the cows can't eat wildflowers. In order for the grass to grow the wildflowers have to go. I still have a few sections of wildflowers and will keep those until they go to seed.

I hope y'all enjoy your weekend.