Karen, that is so pretty. I've been looking everyday, but I haven't left comments for a while because I was just repeating myself everyday about how much I enjoy this post. I need to get busy taking some more pics to post. Linda

Nicole, are you kidding? Colorado must have some pretty lizards somewhere. And really the Western Fence lizard is probably the most colorful I've come across. We called them blue-bellies when I was a kid. The Alligator lizards and a small bronze skink-like lizard are pretty prevalent in the area and we've found a number of the little bronze lizzies in the house. They are very skittish, very fast and stay low, not climbers like the blue bellies. When Casey_nfld came to visit a few months ago I took her on a short hike where she saw her very first lizard in the wild. I was hoping to find her a bob cat because there are pretty common around here as well. I'll post another pic tomorrow. Jodi-

I got my porch swing free off CL and made the sling, cushion was cut to fit/covered it, added pillows. Buuuuuut....someone got really creative and made it out of wood! I'm so impressed! There are so many ways to re-invent an item!

Got up @ 2am Saturday morning so we could drive 3.5hrs to the crane festival and shoot the sunrise. This is when the birds cross over from standing in water to avoid being eaten by predators at night....to crossing over to farmers fields to eat grain.