Visiting plus playing with cameras

A quiet weekend made for visiting...

I headed to Utica for the weekend to share some time with my folks, and with (crazy) Bailey too.

You do know that he runs the household, don't you? You haven't met Bailey? He's a somewhat wacky dachshund.

It was a visiting weekend, and as seems to be my now normal habit, my cameras came along for the ride. I hoped to try to capture some photos of hummingbirds, but wouldn't you know that they decided not to visit this weekend. I suppose they were off drinking the nectar from real flowers as opposed to the hummingbird feeders.

It was a good visit, sharing time together, and unfortunately sharing worries too. It's too bad that sending healing (or soothing) wishes on the behalf of a friend or family member (or anyone else for that matter) doesn't ease pain or cure diseases.

And yes, Neal, of course it's you I'm referring to. For what it's worth, I'm still sending hope and good wishes your way.

Are we going for a walk now? Oh, we just came back? Well I guess I can hang out on the deck for a while. More pictures of Bailey from this weekend can be found at http://denise.smugmug.com/gallery/1653780

Bright spots of color emerged from the green along the side of the road.

Isn't it nice to have a pool for drinking and swimming too? More pictures of flowers along with a few birds & a mischevious chipmunk can be found at http://denise.smugmug.com/gallery/1653951