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Easter Egg Hunt!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


...and some flowers:
 
Not sure what these little bitty blue guys are  (note their size in relation to the oak leaves on the ground)


 
Wild strawberry (notice the serrated leaves).  We have little patches of them here and there, but this is a volunteer, completely alone on the other side of the house from the others.
 

 
...and the azaleas are coming on strong.  Love their bright red - almost makes me wish for Kodachrome, which i didn't normally care for a lot.  (Ektachrome was more my thing.)

Probably the most exciting Easter egg hunt that I've ever seen was this big community one many years ago that I watched part of from the sidelines.

They'd forgotten to boil the eggs.

Forgot to do the spin test, eh? How exciting!

On another forum that I frequent, a poster was on his way to my <sarcasm>wonderful</sarcasm> state via the great state of Iowa.

And, he was kind enough to snap the following picture for me - one that may be of great interest to those of us in this forum.



Ladies and Gentlemen - the mighty Wapsipinicon River!

*gasp* It's REAL!!!

I never doubted its reality...but I thought there'd be more mermaids or something...

I think this explains my feelings for Arachnid-Americans...

Boulevard of Broken Dreams dept:
 


"Space Available" - they didn't even have time to take down the "Now Open" sign...

This is a single tree.  It's done this every year since we moved here.  My guess (given the complexity of the trunk) is that two trees sprouted close beside each other and grew together - sort of a natural graft.  (We had a similar dogwood tree - half-white/half-pink - near our house in SC - and the apartments where we lived before we moved here had an oak and a pine that had merged trunks.).
 

A grafted oak and pine? I wouldn't have guessed those were compatible.

GlytchMeister wrote:A grafted oak and pine? I wouldn't have guessed those were compatible.

Not grafted, as such - they grew next to each other and grew together for several feet at the bottom. I'll see if i can get a picture.

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Kate informs me they've cut down some trees there, and it might be gone - she still hangs out with the woman who lived in the unit directly across the parking lot from us, so she has some idea what's happening there.

Basically, they're not Siamese twins, they just can't stop hugging each other.

shadowinthelight wrote:Basically, they're not Siamese twins, they just can't stop hugging each other.

Yeah. Reeeaalll friendly.

Oooh. Ok. Neither have any notion of personal space.

Huh. Still fascinating.

shadowinthelight wrote:Basically, they're not Siamese twins, they just can't stop hugging each other.

They're really for real, honest to goodness treehuggers...the only ones who can really get away with that...

*drops a Monty Pythons Flying Circus boxed set in the jar...justin case*

It just hit me today - apropos of nothing at all, and of absolutely no significance - Prince Charles is his own second cousin once removed.

The whole set of the Wapsipinicon River:
Here are the pictures I took, from the pedestrian bridge off of US-151 in Anamosa, IA. One looks upriver, and the other two look downriver.

Image 1
Image 2
Image 3

Looks like you could float a canoe on that.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:It just hit me today - apropos of nothing at all, and of absolutely no significance - Prince Charles is his own second cousin once removed.

No - wait - he's his own THIRD cousin.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:It just hit me today - apropos of nothing at all, and of absolutely no significance - Prince Charles is his own second cousin once removed.

No - wait - he's his own THIRD cousin.

So, legally--he CAN go @#$% himself?

Millions in Ireland and Scotland are delighted!