Cousins...

First of all, these photos were taken by my brother, not me.

Yesterday we had a little family reunion down at Spring Mill State Park Park here in Indiana.  These two played and played and played.  And we laughed and laughed and laughed.  Jackson is real good at acting like he has been shot and killed.  He was so good, that a couple times I actually thought he must have got hurt when he fell...

This one time as he came pretended to come to, he said "Am I on Earth or is this Heaven?"  We about fell out at that line.

 Notice Lorelei has to be funny...notice her face.  At first glance you might think I have published the same picture twice but it is two different photos.

End of summer charm

This is just a drop in the bucket...there just seems to be no way to show the measure of yellow that is out at the strip pits.  Everywhere in sight one will see yellow flowers.  On warm, breezy days, it is just glorious to stand and look.  I never seem to be able to capture a picture that shows the way I feel.

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It is really on the cool side now of the morns.  It is  46ºF as I type this.  The high is only supposed to reach into the 60's.  

I will be busy today, so probably won't get much visiting done till either tonight or tomorrow.  I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Will Nilly Friday 5

1. How about a song and a photo....first the photo.  This is what I think of when I think of clear, blue skies.  Which incidentally have clouds in them.  But it is the clearness of the air I notice.  When colors are more saturated, and you get that feeling you could see forever.

And this is another song from Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young.  One of my favorites.

2.  We had a neighbor that lived to the south of us several years ago.  I was probably in my late 30's or early 40's, and she was well into her 70's.  She loved Neil Young/Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.  They seem to be a group that are timeless.  One of my daughters likes some of their stuff.

3.  This has been a hard week...

4.  Does anyone besides me seem to live wishing their life away?  Wanting certain dates to just be done and over with.  Things you dread.  I have gotten better about that than I used to be.  If things are months away, I can tell myself I am not going to worry about it till the week before, and can manage to push the worries away that way.

5.  What are your feelings about people that join link-ups but don't get to visit other participants?  If I know for sure I won't get to visit, I usually don't join.  But sometimes I join, and then don't have the time to visit.   Then I suffer guilt.

And speaking of link-ups, if you were one that linked to the Barn Charm meme, you might want to check out what your links connect to now.  I went through and 'broke' the connection to all the links I could find on my blogs.  If I had linked to a specific Barn Charm post, I got 'this page is not here' but if it was just to the blog in general, it was something you might find objectionable.

Linking to and hoping to get in several visits to
Willy Nilly Friday Five