Love all pics as usual. Murrysmom, what a nice gift you choose for yourself. I had one years ago that looked like a bunch of concord grapes. Don't remember where I got it, didn't drink tea, so gave it to a stranger that displayed her fabulous tea pot collection at the library. Expect your 'other' gift to yourself in the mail tomorrow.

A snowy egret in Costa Rica This past weekend my wife and I went to Connecticut for the funeral service of a friend who had lost her lengthy battle with leukemia. After the funeral mass there was a brief graveside ceremony. As people were starting to disperse, an egret, like the one above, flew low over the cemetery, and landed in a tree over the gravesite, and then a few seconds later flew off. It seemed as if an angel had come to guide her away. I think she would have liked that.

Atop Mauna Kea. Some were wanting to build another observatory there, but the uproar from the locals was too much. It is windy and desolate up there.

susanwv, that is Blue Eyed Grass, a wildflower. Would you believe, that tiny little flower is a member of the Iris family! Here are 2 of the 14 stations of the cross located in a hidden woodland setting near Erie, PA. There is nothing to indicate that they are there. My sister lives very near to them.