I'm going to plant more Dreamland Ivory Zinnias next year!

They've got a beautiful creamy ivory color, very lush foliage, and they stand up to the very hot temperatures. As you can see, the butterflies like them too! I've saved some seeds and will hopefully be able to start them that way - but I bought the ones I have this year at Hughes Plant Farm south of Tyler. They've got many greenhouses, sell in volume, and sell flats for around $10.

Mentally challanged blue jay

We really think it is! In this picture though, just a little strange and the feather colors are not right either. Sometimes this bird will just sits there more laying on the rail than standing, sorta lopsided, with his head twisted and beak open - for a long period of time. I'm surprised he hasn't become cat food already!

Here's an older picture -

Another post about the facial recognition software in Picasa

Still pretty amazed at the accuracy of the scanning on this software. There's a picture here it suggested as being Aaron. It's the last picture of the individual face shots of Aaron in the screen print from Picasa (top photo). It has a red patch across the bottom right of the picture.

The full picture is where the suggestion came from. It's obviously Aaron in the picture but not the one that's suggested. But then, if you look very closely at the bigger picture you will see that it includes an image of the wedding candle. It's at the top of Aaron's shoulder. The candle has pictures of Aaron and Amber on it. The one of Aaron is barely visible. It's almost impossible to even see the candle in the photo but Picasa picked up that image and identified it as Aaron. Amazing!

I was also reviewing some other suggestions it presented and found one of Deanna when she was very little (about 4-5) and it was a poor quality picture too. The only thing Picasa was working with was recent pictures but it correctly identified this old picture of a very young Deanna as being the same person as in the more recent photos. (Now I'll stop posting about this.)

This looks good!

I was looking at the Fox news page and noticed this!
We'll be there 9/10-12. Looking forward to temps like these!

Colby Graduated!!

Yesterday, at a meeting of the Rains County School Board, Colby received his high school diploma!! It was a brief but meaningful presentation that took place first thing after the meeting was called to order.

A few of God's creatures!!

I've see a couple incredible videos yesterday and today. One came in an email and the other was posted on Facebook. Hope you enjoy them both as much as I did!! I've got a lot more respect for turtles now - both in their "humanitarianism" and their ability to diagnose and solve problems. I thought they were just dumb creatures. And we've always known how dogs love to play - but deer?

Turtles

Deer and dog