Scrapbook retreat & what I've been working on at home

Taj Mahal

Elephant ride in India

Smokin' the hookah!

Meeting the Dalai Lama in Japan.

Florence

I gave a KIVA loan to a woman in Cambodia so she could buy some pigs.

Jim & I had a game night this past winter.

Floating on the Current River with the family last year.

Visiting Pawn Stars in Las Vegas.

The demise of our Bradford pear tree. (don't mind the toes!)

My pond & gardens in Florissant (boy, I miss them!)

This layout had a fold-out which I don't do too often but Barb helped me.

One of my favorite flowers.

Me & Angie

Our Integra-sealed deck

Our French lop rabbit from when the kids were young.

Some of the characters Jim & I met on our resort in Jamaica.

Next up - cousins scrapbook retreat at Kentucky Lake - woo hoo!!!

What's in your backyard?

Friday evening I was getting dinner ready and out my kitchen window I spied this owl.  I started yelling to Jim who was upstairs but he couldn't hear me because he was playing his guitar so I ran up there to tell him to look out the window.  I then ran back downstairs and grabbed my camera to get some photos.  Unfortunately, my flash kept going off so I didn't get that many good shots.  We can hear the owls quite often at night but haven't seen one so up close & personal.  It was pretty cool.  He knew we were watching him because he turned his head and stared at me in the window a few times.  He stayed there for about 5 minutes and then he flew away.