Aren't these pretty against that green, green background? Like a watercolor painting.
And this, this is just plain weird!
Lots of different colors . . . I'm enamored of the wildflowers (if you couldn't tell).
This looks so much lupine, but it's a bush, not a single flower. Turns out there are several types of bush lupine, so I'm guessing this is one of them.
This picture just cracked me up . . . it makes me think of a bunch of serious little curved-neck beings with their Sunday hats on, heading off to do important things. ;-)
Noelle & Andy
We also saw some lizards, which was so much fun! It's getting warm enough now that they're out and about, soaking up sun and I think maybe looking for partners. This tree had at least four or five skittering around, pumping themselves up and down like little claymation figures and darting in and out of sight.
If you enlarge this one, you can see the blue belly on the larger lizard.
This fella did the best posing for me, but the focus is still not sharp; it's hard to get the camera to focus on the one little spot you're going for!
After enjoying the lizards we turned to head further along the trail and saw this log, which we all thought looked like a lizard itself.
Noelle & Erik walking ahead with Thomas
Andy & I saw this weird bug; it looks like a big fuzzy red ant. Turns out it's a Velvet Ant. They aren't that common, and for the most part live solitary lives. I felt lucky to have seen two different ones during our hike!
The moon had risen as we were leaving the preserve.
We saw a vulture soaring as we left.
The boys dropped the dogs and us at the house and went to pick up a wonderful Thai dinner.
We got some mango and sticky rice to share for dessert; in this picture it looks like Noelle set the whole kit-n-kaboodle on fire.
But as you can see, it survived the blaze and we enjoyed it immensely!
For whatever reason, I didn't take any pictures on Sunday. :-/ After church, Andy & Noelle took us out for lunch to celebrate our anniversary (2 years tomorrow!) We chose the Desi Cafe, an Indian restaurant not too far from our house that we've been meaning to try ever since some friends told us about it. Wow. It's a beautiful little restaurant, and the servers took time to explain every item on the buffet to us after learning it was our first visit. Most importantly it was delicious! We'll definitely go back.We came back to the house and played a rousing game of lawn golf (the boys won the tie-breaker game), before they had to head for home.
Oh! AND we finally set up the hammock. Happy Day!
What a fun weekend. :-)
When are YOU coming for a visit??
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