The heron viewing park

This is what we see from the parking area...I seldom even climb it.  On beyond it is a boardwalk out over a small section of the water.  I cannot wait to get to it.  Generally, there's only one or two other couples there, and we usually have the place to ourself a big part of the time.

 And this is taken looking back from the boardwalk. 

As you can probably guess, we love to go up there....not sure when we are going again, but hopefully sooner rather than later.

Critters from the back roads...

When we were out over the weekend, we came across these two critters...

They seemed to be enjoying the return of green grass!  I have never known anyone that had donkeys.  I don't know what their personality is like...I suppose it depends on how they have been treated.  Just like everything/everyone else.
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I always wonder why we are the way we are.  Why we react the way we do.  Just simple things.  If I am reading a book review and the word 'rollicking' is used in its description, I have no desire to look at it and that is not even fair.  It is just someone's description  But if it has certain words in the title I will at least investigate it. Do you have words that pull you in....any mention of seasons draw me, but autumn and winter pull me more than spring and summer....river is another, as well as the names of months...but even then I like the fall and winter months better...

I like to read true crime books....not all the time.  Just one or two thrown in here and there.  I always wonder why I like them.  I think I would have liked to be a detective.   Roger always loves Star Wars and Star Trek, and science fiction stuff...and good war movies.  We both like old war movies like Sand Pepples or Heaven Knows Mr. Allison...

How about you...do you wonder why you react certain ways about certain things? 

The Color Purple

Every year I LOVE these tulips....they look like velvet.  And I never get what I consider a superb shot....usually the sun is too harsh or they have fallen all over and just no way to get a good shot.

And they are not purple I have--you would think purple was my favorite color.  It isn't...it just happens I have a lot of purple.

There is also this purple iris, and I have a couple more that I have not photographed yet.  Besides the irises not photographed, I didn't take any of my lilac.

 Today I also took these of the wisteria!