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Snakes on a porch!
Well, it’s just one snake who lives in the rocks next to our back porch. He, or maybe she, is a black rat snake we call Samuel. She/he seems very happy here. If you don’t like snakes, or even if you do, we have plenty of wildflowers and butterflies, too.
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Remember springtime?
Good, because that’s when I took these photos. A tiny bird’s nest I saw hanging from a branch. Prairie violet. A wild american plum tree. It bloomed before the dogwoods. This turkey was in the backyard one morning. Gary took this from inside the house. The shiitake mushroom operation. Each log has been inoculated with…
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Porch Sweet Porch
Summer is finally here! Hooray! Here’s where we’re having lunch and dinner and hanging out after dinner. I’m even dragging an office chair out and working at the table during the day.
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Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans
I just got back from my spring trip to New Orleans. I forgot my camera, but fortunately my dear friend Mary always brings hers. Here are Lainey, Lori, Mary and I in the garden room at Commander’s Palace for Sunday brunch. Lori always makes our reservations and always gets a really good table. We’ve sat…
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Race to the Rocker
Yesterday, the Hoovers participated in a 4 mile fun run to the World’s Largest Rocker. 200 runners and walkers left Cuba on Old Route 66 and ran westward to the Fanning Outpost – home of the rocker. I jogged, Gary walked, and Dave directed traffic. With the west bound lane closed, it was a very…
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2007 Italy, 2008 Caribbean, 2009 Elephant Rocks State Park
Yesterday we went down to Elephant Rocks State Park. This is the part of Missouri where the granite for the Freeport jetties came from. Click on any photo for a close up.
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Luna moth
I saw this beauty yesterday on the edge of the dam.