Bald Eagles, Eaglets, and Memorial Day~

~ Happy Memorial Day

  We salute you, we thank you, God Bless you~

Remembering those lives lost and being forever grateful. Blessings to those who have served and sacrificed, yet still remain among us.
Memorial Day... 7/1 Air Cav, the unit that my husband Bill served in while serving our country in Vietnam, 1968-1969... Remembering those who have served, and to those who sacrificed it all. May we never forget.
Military section at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, KY. The US ARMY campaign flag and our United States of America flag... land that I love and remembering those who have made our freedoms possible~

Missing in action, and from action for three weeks now...huge sigh!  

So how is everyone, I need to catch up~

One thing that I have realized for a long time, but never knew how to rectify it, is that without the use of memes, it is not easy to keep the momentum of having much activity to one's blog.  I have been so blessed, so fortunate these past going on 7 years  next month, to have many thousands of visitors stop by, many of you have become cherished friends and a few have even become my confidants.  I have made as many thousands of visits to your blogs and I consider it a real pleasure.  

Suddenly a feeling of loss came over me, when our dear friend Judith changed Mosaic Monday from every Monday to just the last Monday of the month. What a blessing she has been to many of us.  I would love to know how others are moving forward and keeping their blogs alive with visitors.  It did give me an opening to join in the fun with Eileen for her meme Saturday's Critters and I hope to be able to visit with many others already on this great share much more in coming weeks and months.

Feeling poorly has not helped! Tuesday I had knee surgery to repair a large medial meniscus tear and also some cartilage removed.  The pain shot up to a good 9.5 and I just knew it had to be something worse than Arthritis and insisted on an MRI, rather than going straight to having a total knee replacement.   At this age in life the surgery that I had usually only fixes 10% of us and I am hoping to be in the percentage and not the 90% that it does not help.  Feeling positive, and yet cautious, as I am still on bed rest.  I begin physical therapy Tuesday and see the surgeon Wednesday.  Always be your own advocate, no one knows your body better than you.  My scare with the drug induced Lupus is all clear except that my hands get red/purple when they are cold, but I was told that would heal in time as well.  I can hardly wait to reclaim my life and time with you all.  I miss that~   

Remember to double click on the first image, to view a larger slideshow presentation after                                                                you have read the narratives~

                                                     I am joining in the fun with Eileen at:

                                              http://viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com/

                                                                       Saturday's Critters

As well as linking up with Judith for:

www.lavendercottagegardening.com

Mosaic Monday

& 

Stewart for:

http://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com.au/

Wild Bird Wednesday

A silly Blue Jay taunts the majestic Bald Eagle~

There are two eaglets again this season, yet most of the time, I can only see one at a time~

The female brings in a very large fish for breakfast~

The female delivers the meal and parcels out a bit and then the male joins the feast as the female leaves~

This eaglet has done everything to try and show the adult male that he is present and begins to cry out for some of the fish brought in~

Then the male exits after he has helped feed the young and himself~

Last month I accidentally got an image of myself in the door glass near the Eagle nest site.  This time as I walked by I took this one on purpose, just for the fun of it~