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Shirley I missed listening to the birds with you this morning
Glad you had a safe trip back home,,

Thank you both for sharing your adventures with us all!

Looks like all 3 of you had a great time! Thanks for sharing!!

I 2nd the motion.......
AWESOME .. I loved the scene of Dallas and airport and the stuff we would of never seen before ......
Great planning genius Diane........ :ding: :wink:

dodge

it is jsut like Barb has said--thanks for showing us things that we would otherwise NOT get to see.

Thanks, Diane & Shirley too, for sharing this visit with us.

That was fun watching the sense of humor on all 3 faces..

Oh man, before we end this I want to show a few more things:

I woke up with a terrible headache this morning, but with two pots of coffee and hours working with my photos, it is all gone now!!

Right now the sky is blue with fluffy white clouds and sunshine...but it is SHOWERING!!!!

Just want to say, Diane, that you made my visit wonderful and memorable!!
Thank you so much!!

And Jimmy! You were a great host; thanks for the food, the t-shirts, the sight seeing, and all the laughs!!!

Here Diane and I are looking at some photos I brought so she could share some of my past life: :wink:



And we sat on the patio and read her new Fairy Book and discussed everything in it like a couple of kids!!:



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Some of my favorite things:

This is my all time favorite solar ball:



I love the way Diane did this...a planted half pot attached to the side of this tree....I love this!!



And this big tree, which has bird feeders all over it, seems to be lifting up it's arms saying, "Flock unto me, all ye birds that hunger!" (I know I'm I'm nuts!)



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I will refrain from all the flower pictures because we get to see lots of her beautiful flowers in various topics, pictures which her camera takes much better than mine. But, I will show this one cause it opened for me the morning I of the day I left!!

Diane's Canna:






Emmy loves balloon! But the breeze floats them into everywhere she can't go!!

Stuck in a garden:



And stuck in the Brug bush:



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And now....this is my final 'goodbye to Texas'

This is take off:



This is clouds:



This is the sun going down, and the wing of my plane:



And, sorry about this being 4 pictures to this post, but this is my final one for this whole trip topic:

The sun is going, going, gone:



BYE!!!!

Thank all of you who have shared and enjoyed this Texas visit
with us!!

Shirley,

That is such a beautiful ending.......I must admit it made me choke up a little.

You did wonderful on the last 4 bye bye photos .. Showing us above the clouds.

Arent the cameras wonderful??????

There's majic in you 3 for sure..GOd bless.

Whose next?

dodge

Thank you Dodge!

Shirley - those pictures are wonderful and tell a great story of your visit to Texas. I'm so glad you were able to take this trip, and even happier that you and Diane shared it all with us here!

Oh Shirley I love your "in the air" photos---that is the perfect way to end this thread--thanks so much!!!!!

Thank you Lynn and Sheri!

Lynn, I enjoyed the phone conversation with you!

I did too, Giggles!!! It was a real pleasure speaking with you, and you sounded like you were enjoying your visit very much. It made me want to be there with you both, but that will have to wait until the economy turns around a bit!

Me too I'm glad you took pictures as you left DFW Another flower that had just opened was a rose in the front yard, they were a month ago in full bloom,, I had told Shirley they won't be in bloom when she gets here,, But,,,,,
as We were getting her suitcase in the car I noticed a lone rose,, a deep red velvety rose,, just for Shirley
I so very much Enjoyed Shirley here ,, as Dodge said,,, We all needed it,,, and we all enjoyed it! Thanks for taking a peek into our time together, :wink:

Nice photos, Shirley! Thank you for sharing.



Merme

wonderful visit by you three. thanks for sharing.

Ohhhhhhhh Shirley I forgot to ask you! Was the Pulled Pork still frozen in your suitcase when you got home???
I froze what was left in the crock pot,, and the strawberries you cut up and sugared too . Next time I want some strawberries I will eat the ones Shirley cut up!
I forgot to take a picture of the painting you framed for me,, She painted this while she was at Cindy's a couple of months ago My favorite Gremlin

That is sooooooooooooo cute!!! Do you walk around whistling Diane?
I do sometimes! I do know that graemlin though, and he's quite innocent isn't he?!?

yesssssssss I DO! I do that face a lot!

Yes the pork was still frozen!! And the next day I had some for lunch!!

Here is two more pictures I have to show also.....and here I thought we were through with this topic!!

My little cactus bloomed in my suitcase!! When I took it out it looked like this:



And I had my solar ball sitting in the sun all day Tuesday, and this is what it looked like last night among by plants and gnomes:

COOOOOOOOL!!!!!!! I'm sooooooo glad the Buds didn't fall off during travel! It will look awesome with all of them bloomed!

I Figured with all the flowers you get to bloom in your apt as well as if they were outside you needed a solar light! It looks great there!

Thanks, I think so too!! You'd better get to work!!!

Cindy, we knew why you weren't here, but, you posted some!!!
Sorry for your family's loss!

Yes, at least one of those suitcases will be used TUESDAY!!!

I'm glad you 'read back' this time, as I know you usually don't!

Cindy - I am so sorry for your loss.

Shirley - I know those exact suicases! My daughter's roommate was from Guam, and she never returned to school after winter break, and had left many things behind that she told Amy to keep. Among them were 2 of the smaller suitcase that Diane gave you, and the small carry-on bag too. And in red also - Amy's current favorite color!

Enjoy using yours on your next journey!

Cindy sorry about the family loss.

Be strong ....We care.

dodge

Cindy, you've been through so much lately but I'm sure you'll hear ALL about it when Shirley shows up.

Cindy Sorry for your loss !



I wish when I got mine I would have gotten a different color,, Do you know how many Black suitcases are on the carousel at the airports 95% I have to tie a color ribbon on my handle so I'll know what one is mine

I have black too - that is what I wanted at the time, and I have mutlicolored yarn tied on mine too - so you are not alone in doing that!

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Well actually I saw several of the red ones among all those black ones!! Diane, I'm glad you put that colored ribbon on mine. It sure helped!!!

Ohhhhhhh I was wondering about that,, Did you have trouble lifting it from the carousel??

No, it dragged right off!!

Ok everyone.....the trips over......pictures posted.....comments made......etc.

We are glad everyone enjoyed the trip and visit with us!!!!

"Turn out the lights...the party's over".


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