The cats have a new bed. They adapted it themselves. Very resourceful considering it is a bowl. Charkie models their newest acquisition.
My wonderful brother and sister-in law are allowing me to borrow their macro lens. Fun!!!! I still am trying to get the hang of the thing and need to find my tripod but I have taken a bunch of pics. There are quite a few that are far from great but I like them anyway!!! I really do need to try to take pictures somewhere other than my backyard!! Okay, bear with me, I know they are not great but heck, practice makes better!
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I found a couple of new gardening friends. The caterpillar will become a black swallow-tail butterfly.
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Some new pictures from the garden:
And since Lily was jealous that only Charkie was in the last post:
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Okay, this may not seem like much to anyone else, but my beautiful daughter allowed me to take a few pictures of her. Mind you, I snapped fast before she could change her mind. These are rare!!
Charky, on the other hand, does not mind the camera.
And then there is my boy! 
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A local business sponsored a free admission day to our wonderful zoo. Henry Doorly Zoo is ranked in top five (#4 from TripAdvisor) and deserves this high number. I have mixed feelings about zoos. I appreciate the work they do in conservation, breeding and education but I wish there was not a need.
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The Cross-Country Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is not my usual cup ‘o tea as far as the type of book I read, but it was given to me with praise. It is a quaint book and possibly what I needed after the mind blurring time-traveling of my last book. The characters are sweet and I found myself wanting to find out what the small band of quilters faced during the year between meeting at quilt camp and their reunion. There were some very good descriptive sections concerning quilting and the story moved at a good pace. This is actually the third book in a series concerning Elm Creek Quilt camp. I think I would have possibly enjoyed this one more if I had read the first two of the series. Definitely a good read for those who enjoy stories of women and their struggles with their relationships (husbands, ex-husbands, children, children’s significant others), illness, their own self-confidence and how the female bond can create the strength to muddle through life’s curves.
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