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Have an awesome 3-day weekend! 🇺🇸

 

 Memorial Day Weekend, reminisce, reflect, and remember 

   

       

 

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A Roadrunner!

 Can u see him? 

Lower right side on the grass by the water’s edge. 

Here he is, caught in mid-flight/walk; 

And here he is in his element, on the road taking off, they really are fast!  

They run so level that you’d swear they were standing still, but the minute u try to adjust the lens on the camera, he had just ran several yards! 

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Good news or bad news first?

 I’ll post this 1st to get it over with; 

   The Lychee and Dog Meat Festival is an annual festival held in Yulin, Guangxi, China, during the summer solstice in which festival goers eat dog meat and lychees. 

Apparently lychees are like strawberries.  I don’t want to judge and I can’t. 

I used to sign petitions every year to stop the Yulin dog meat festival because they steal pets and no one stops them and the gov’t can’t. I can’t find petitions for 2024. Feel free to post link here if u find one and sign it, thanks! 

Good news is that I found a rescue, by sight. I saw a beautiful tiger there who glanced at me as I rolled down the window to say hello. He went right back to his cat-nap and I drove on because how do u communicate with a tiger for pete’s sake..? 

   I found their website;

https://www.carerescuetexas.com/meet-the-animals/overview.html 

I’m not sure what type of rescue it is, but it was easy to find with beautiful open grounds.  

                           

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MORE Spring Colors! And a fun rescue…

 I can’t help it, I see these colors popping thru the brilliant green as I try to pass them by and can’t, so I stop to share them here. Oh, and I included a pic of a giant rock because, well, just because! :-) 

  

 

There he is! There are these tiny bright yellow butterflies all over the place! Everywhere! And yet they refuse to hold still for a photograph. They are small enuf that when u can capture a pic, they don’t show up or look like tiny yellow smudges :-/ 

I finally caught one. He’s in the top right corner perched on a pink flower cluster.  

Sorry for the massive download but these are only half of the best pics I captured…

 

Supposedly the above is a Musk Thistle. All those thousands of white flower clusters are Wild Carrot (?) 

 

The pink clusters above are either Mourning Brides or Gypsy Roses. 

 

Above are Pink Ladies. I see these randomly. They don’t congregate around signs or trees where water might gather, neither hill nor dale nor nice neat rows, just totally random clusters of about a dozen or so of these flowers 🌸 here or there or where u least expect them, so odd! 

 

More ‘Wild Carrot’ flowers. 

Don’t the above flowers look like Cleopatra from the Addams Family? ☺️ 

And last but not least, a rescue I follow on YouTube called One Happy Ass Farm! 

A donkey Rescue? Okay. They don’t seem to re-home them or raise them for export or anything, just rescues that they care for all their lives. 

Of course, they come across abandoned dogs and cats, rescue them reluctantly and try to re-home them. 

I haven’t visited there and not sure where they are located, I just follow their updates and shorts. The lady narrator and her husband are fun and engaging. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/15w2UF6VKxw?si=bSRLlnmH2BBVGkoV  

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More Spring Colors

 

 

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