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Breckenridge, Colorado  I love snow, but not so much on Memorial Day.  In Breckenridge, I met some friends who were covered in snow. It was almost June. Time for flowers. Not snow.  I sat on the snowy ear of a deer statue and I apologized. "Sorry for complaining." I whispered in her ear. "I heard you had a really, really long winter. I'll bet you're a lot more ready to feel the sun on your fur, than me."
I think she agreed.
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Silly Beth Beth is sorting stuff, again. She dug up all these dolls and displayed them. That is what she does. She plays with stuff, while she tries to figure out what to get rid of.  She found dolls that belonged to her mom and her grandmother, her sister and even her sister in law. Some of the dolls belong to Beth's grown daughter and a few were Beth's when she was a child. I'm hiding somewhere in this crowd of dolls. Find Me Beth balanced 69 dolls on the old pump organ. Later, she found some dolls that belonged to her son, but there wasn't really room for more.  In this picture I'm tucked in a pocket. "I feel lost with all the big dolls!" I told Beth. Smaller Than Me  Beth assured me I wasn't the smallest. She posed me with the tiny dolls. But... I'm not a doll. I have fur. I always feel out of place.
Near the Grand Basin On Mother's Day, I was in St. Louis with Beth. We visited Forest Park.  I've visited the city before and posed near the giant Arch. This was my first time in the park, where the 1904 World's Fair once took place! The Art Museum and Lagoon This is the lovely lagoon and art museum. They were created for the spectacular celebration, 115 years ago.  Beth's grandmother attended the fair as a little girl. Beth and her mom went the the art museum together, 75 years later. Thinking on a Drizzly Day  The park should have been more crowded, but Beth and I had the whole area to ourselves because of the cold, damp weather. The quiet made it easier to sit and imagine the busy fair, so many years ago. Flowers?  But it was Mother's Day and Beth wanted to pose me in some flowers.  Beth couldn't find any, so she posed me with the ugly plants. At least I could gaze across the water, where Beth's mother ice-skated as a child.. I looked up at Art Hill, where Beth cross country skied as a teenager... and saved a little boy, whose sled had crashed through the ice of the lagoon. I loved imagining the stories... on that drizzly Mother's Day in St. Louis. But we needed some color.  Luckily, Beth knew she'd be traveling on Mother's Day. She planned ahead and brought some colorful artwork, made by her kids about 25 years ago. Who does that? That sounds kind of silly, but I was glad to pose with something springlike, on a colorless day.
Happy Mother's Day... Happy May! No More Bluebonnets  I've posed with enough bluebonnets over the years. Beth found the perfect thistle, instead. A Friend  Then she got excited when she saw the bee. I've posed on turtles and cats, with hummingbirds and bugs. She was excited about this new friend. Just Me  But the bee flew off and the wind blew, just after Beth balanced me on top. I took a sudden tumble, but the prickly stem stuck to my legs like Velcro.
I love a wild flower adventure! Part Way Up  Enchanted April is the name of a movie. Beth wants to go to Italy when she watches the movie. This April, she stayed in Texas and took me to Enchanted Rock instead. I am only sitting about half way up the Rock, in this photo. Pink Granite Mountain in Texas The big "pink rock" covers about 640 acres. It rises up 425 feet. It's the largest pink granite monadnock in the U.S. A monadnock is an isolated mountain, by the way.  Enchanted Rock actually looks pretty boring, in every picture I've ever seen. At the Top  At the top you can hunt for this little marker. It was attached to the rock in 1956. I sat for a moment and caught my breath. We were at 1,825 elevation. That's high in Texas.
Actually I rode up in the camera bag. I was not panting. But I was sighing at the view. Krispy Kreme Doughnut!  Beth bought a green doughnut and she made some coffee.  I sat between the two smells. I like doughnut smells better than coffee smells.  I moved a little closer to the doughnut, because it smelled so good.  Guess What? It was green inside!  I crawled back on the saucer. I told Beth that I had no idea who got to that doughnut!
Counting Keys  Beth has a lot of stuff. Today, she poured a bunch of keys out, onto the porch. I tried to count them, but I got tired.  Instead, I just sat around and tried to decide which was my favorite.  Keys are so cool. My favorite was the one with the face, until I saw the one with World's Fair 1933, written on it. I can't decide. I took a picture of all my favorites.
I Love Valentine's Day  Candy and cards! Valentine's Day can be so fun! Beth let me pose with her flowers! Tiki Time?  Then I noticed the vase! Beth and Don were having a Tiki Valentine's, out on the patio. This is just not right! Where are the hearts and the chocolates? Oh well. It was a nice evening, anyway.
Spanish Moss & An Old Wall  I've posed with Spanish moss in Florida and Georgia, but never in South Carolina! This Spanish moss had dropped down from a tree, onto an old brick wall.
I've posed for photos in at least 25 US states now. In January I got to add South Carolina to my list.
I sat safely on the wall, that surrounded this lovely antebellum house. I kept an eye on the doggies, who sat on the side porch. They seemed to be watching me, too. My South Carolina adventures could have been a lot more exciting, if I'd fallen off the wall, into the doggies' yard! Whew!
Umbrellas at Christmastime!  It looks kind of like I'm on top of a pumpkin. I'm really on the top of an umbrella, which is not the best place to be. You can see it is wet. On the Porch  But the umbrella was on the porch. I was not riding the umbrella while Beth and her family walked around Portland. That's good, because it was pretty rainy over the holidays!
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