Spring Rosy Roses at the ABQ BG

 

Welcome to Nature Friday where we get to meet new friends and share a picture or two of what nature looks like around Blogville. Here in New Mexico it's Spring blooming season for Rosy Roses.  Mama took a ride over to the Botanical Garden before she left for Italy and she saw a whole bunch of rosy rose blooms!!!

Faded pink roses

Orange roses

Yellowy pink roses

Shadowy roses

Roses with raindrops(from the sprinklers)

But wait, there's more!

A red, red Rosy for Aunty C

A pink and orange rosy basking in the sun

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A lone pink rose found along a trail

"Raindrops on Roses" really are one of Mama's favorite things

We'll wrap the rosy rose picture part of the post up with this beauty.

BUT that's not all, Mama made a slide show to preserve the rest of the roses she saw:

There might be lots of Rosy Roses out there, but there is only one Rosy Girl!!

We hope all our friends get out and see some Nature this weekend.

We left the comments on, let us know how your week went!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Fountain Quails

As you might be able to tell, I am not happy about having to post about the Quails that have been visiting our fountain. Believe it or not, I am usually a friend to most of our backyard animals but Quails just annoy me. In fact, they are the only bird I actually will chase away. That little top feather of theirs makes me crazy!

Anyways, lately these crazy Quail have been exploring the fountain, something they hardly ever do. Mama says it may be because it hasn't rained in like forever. I sure hope it rains soon so they stop stealing our water!

TC caught them sneaking drinks of water:

We probably won't see them at the fountain again...because I'll be watching for them from now on!!!

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop this week!

(Comments are off today, because you 

know, no computer password :-)

This and That Nature Friday (and an Announcement)

Welcome to Nature Friday where we get to meet new friends and share a picture or two of what nature looks like around Blogville. Happy May Day!!  To celebrate, we have a few leftover Spring "this's and that's"!

This is a blooming hedgehog cacti (aka claret cup cactus)

That is a close up of one of the pretty orange blooms

This is a lilac bloom Mama found at the ABQ Zoo...

That is a California Poppy also found at the Zoo.

ANNOUNCEMENT

We want to let you know that the next couple of weeks that pawrents are taking off for their vacation across the pond. Through the magic of technology, we will have Backyard Wildlife Wednesday posts, along with Nature Friday Blog Hop posts(the hop links can be found on our hoppity page). 

Unfortunately, Mama is NOT leaving us her computer password (because she is mean), so we won't be able to comment on your posts. We will probably be busy playing with Nanny K and making sure she gives us lots of treats anyways. 

We will be back to regular posting Monday, May 18th.

Now, back to our post....

This is a cute Wood duck Mama saw at the Botanical Gardens this week.....

....and that is a cool looking snail.

Let's wrap things up with THIS Canadian Goose couple THAT has a gaggle of adorable gosslings!

We hope you enjoyed all the this's and that's on today's Nature Friday, and we hope  all our friends get to experience some nature this weekend!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Thankful for Fun Rest Stops

 

As we mentioned on Tuesday, while we were on our ArCee trip a couple of weeks ago, we took a ride

along I40/Route 66 to Amarillo....can you guess where we went??

That's right, BUC-EE'S!! We were thankful we got to see this silly beaver again....Apparently Buc-ee's has good BBQ sandwiches(we wouldn't know because the pawrents did NOT share), so the pawrents ate lunch and then we hit the doggy sidewalk for a walk!

 We are thankful that Buc-ee's has such a nice sidewalk/dog area that spans the whole back parking lot. We had a nice long walk while reading and replying to a bunch of pee-mails along the way!

Mama was thankful we got to see the new mural they painted in the back parking lot.

We were even good girls and let Daddy hold us while we looked at Mama for a picture (another thing Mama is thankful for)!

We really enjoyed our stop at Buc-ee's and hope sometime soon we will get to visit all his brothers across the country!

Thank you to Maxwell and Angel Brian for hosting the

Thankful Thursday Blog Hop

Backyard Yellow Bird

 

This week, we have a new yellow birdy. Mama thinks it is a Female Summer Tanager because of the shape if its beak, but it could also just be an American Goldfinch. Whatever it is, it sure is a pretty shade of yellow!

She does get  bit grumpy tho...

Hey little Yellow bird, quit being so bossy!

(Why are you laughing Mama??)

What birds are you all seeing out your windows this week??

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop this week!

Getting our Kix on Travel Tuesday

We are so happy to share some of the fun we had during our trip to Tucumcari, NM a couple of weeks ago. The highlight of this trip was actually a road trip that we took to explore Route 66 in Texas.

Tucumcari is closer to the Texas border than home, so it only took one nap to get to our first stop.

Adrian, Texas is the halfway point between Chicago, where Route 66 starts, and Santa Monica, (in Los Angeles) where Route 66 ends.

They have this cute little park to help mark the spot.

The town of Adrian is pretty small and they embrace their part in Route 66's history.

We celebrated Route 66 by getting our pictures taken with Lightning McQueen from the Pixar movie Cars! 

(We may have been more interested in the puppies nearby)

After Adrian, we went into to Amarillo (We'll have more on our stop in Amarillo on Thursday). 

On the way back to Tucumcari from Amarillo, we made a walkie stop  in Vega, Texas.

Vega, Texas is another town that was hit hard after Interstate 40 replaced Route 66. They are a quaint little town and had nice grass for sniffing and a nice sidewalk for walkies!

We found this cool old gas station that was turned into a Museum along our walk! 

It may be closed now, but back in the 1920's through the 1940s it was a major service station serving the traffic along Route 66!

Mama thinks the magnolia name and logo are pretty cool!

After another short nap ride, we were back at our campground in Tucumcari!

Isn't finding cool places to go while we're camping fun, Sunny??

Weeeelllllll, I suppose Rosy, but I sure wish we could get places without actually being in the car...

Auggie the Alien: Next time, let's just take my spaceship!

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Happy Tuesday Blog Hop this week!