Poppies are here!

Our poppies finally opened up. Really beautiful flowers. It is too bad they don't last very long. Then again, that is what makes them even more special. Close-up to follow. Sorry my focusing was a little off.

First Visitor

My mom came to visit—we were happy to have our first visitor to the new house. One of the things we did was go to Fillmore Glenn, a state park near Groton. We hiked for a few hours and came across a lot of spring growth, including these white flowers that were verywhere. Here is a solitary one with Blanche in the background.


Here we are at the base of the trail, sitting near the basin of a waterfall. It's still early in the season so a lot of the trails were closed off for safety reasons. I imagine a lot of trees fall during the winters here and they nbeed to clear it out.
Unfortunately, it meant that a lot of the nicer vantage points were not available. We'll go again though as this is only a 15 minute drive from the house.


Birds never stay still long enough for you to photograph them. This time I was lucky and managed to get little birdie in a pensive moment.


Our 13th president, Millard Fillmore. The dude this park is named after. The park is much prettier than the plaque.


This is a replica of the log cabin Millard Fillmore was raised in. Mom and nancy were taking a peek to see if 'ol Millard had his knickers on. Methinks he didn't!


After a long hike even Fiona needed some time to relax and cool off. That or she really wanted someone to pet her belly!

Why Live Teleivision Is Great

I forget how to do the HTML so please copy this link and see a very funny incident that happened on the BBC in relation to the Apple Records vs. Apple Computers lawsuit:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=386136&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=&ct=5