I awoke to this beautiful sight on my B-day morning!! I am so spoiled by my little sweeties, what more could I ever ask for???
After much celebrating throughout the weekend, we managed some great family outings as dh was home for the whole weekend!!
Hiking in style with daddy!
And the rest of us...notice my hair, it was VERY windy, I really don't usually go this *poofy* ;o
Beautiful views from up top!
View to the backside, very picturesque, and how 'bout those hikers!
An exciting discovery, a very large anthill!
Some beauty to sketch into our Nature Notebooks!
A caterpillar caught in action!
All of Violet's findings along our trail, we have an amazing variety of mountain wildflowers here!! She has them pressing between my largest coffee table books right now and plans to mount them onto cardstock and label and laminate them for her collection!!
I caught this beauty. Actually had to chase it around for about 5 minutes before it landed for me. I haven't been able to identify it yet. We thought is was a "Zebra" butterfly, any ideas??
There's more for our weekend I want to share, but this has gotten longer than I planned, boy did I take alot of pictures!! Stay tuned for more Visions of Or Holiday Weekend....Blessings in your day!
Wow! You live in a beautiful spot! Your butterfly looks like a Tiger Swallowtail- one of our favorites to catch here. Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Andrea | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 05:49 PM
Hi Meredith, Just checking in. It's so funny. My son Luke collected 4 different wildflowers in our backyard today. We think we've identified all but one. It's fun to see all of your daughter's wildflower collection on the same day we collected wildflowers. We homeschoolers sure are alike. Hope you had a wonderful birthday. -Carmen Liffengren
Posted by: Carmen M. Liffengren | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 09:53 PM
What a beautiful weekend Meredith! I am wild for wildflowers, and Violet certainly found a lovely collection.
Posted by: Shawna | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 10:04 PM
I'm proud that you had such a wonderful birthday weekend, Meredith!
I LOVE Violet's wildflower collection! I'm a wildflower kind of girl!
Is this scenery at your back door or did you take a trip this weekend?! Beautiful background!
Posted by: betty | Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 01:51 PM
love the wildflowers collection! so pretty! i hope you had a fun and happy birthday. :o)
Posted by: divina | Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 02:33 PM
Poofy? No, no, no. You haven't seen poofy until you see pictures of the girls in my dorm from my freshman year in college in Wisconsin!
The collection of wildflowers are beautiful!
Posted by: SuzanneG | Monday, June 04, 2007 at 11:59 PM