A Few Used a Few New And a Prayer~

All that I have/had in "draft"...

Our Brittany who gave birth to 3 rd child Maci Marette on November 19th, has been in the hospital for 13 days today.
  She had an infection following childbirth, and then she developed Pneumonia.  
She then went into a secondary lung infection called Empyema.
 They transported her last Sunday from BHNE, a hospital near our homes to BHE, in Louisville, and did emergency surgery, draining 1 liter of infection from her right chest cavity.  
Her right lung had collapsed and they re inflated it.  
This whole week she has not gotten any better, still running high fever and white blood count has sky rocketed.  
Brittany still has the Pneumonia and they think she may have some kind of infection somewhere else in her body now.  
The physicians are calling in an Infectious Disease Specialist this morning.  
 Brittany is missing out on so much bonding time with Maci and it is breaking her heart.
 Please, pray for Brittany, Maci and family. 
All that we want for Christmas is a healthy family~
THANK YOU!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Final Evening in Yellowstone

This was to be our final evening in Yellowstone and everywhere we went, we seemed to produce a new friend in a Raven, what truly clever characters they are too!
One of the things that made me giggle every time, was the way the would hop toward you in thinking you were their new best/lost friend.  This particular Raven set up on the bleachers awaiting Old Faithful to go off , along side of me for the longest time, I truly thought that I just might have a bird hitching a ride home with me;)

Ever since I was a small child back in Oregon, I have adored fir trees, and pinecones.  Here on Tingsgrove, I have planted quite a few over the course of our 30 years of living here~

As I have said in an earlier post, there are many wildflowers in the west and if you seek to ID them by way of the state that you saw them in, that does not mean you are going to find them on that list. They were still so beautiful to us and yet I have been told various times before, one day, we must visit in the spring and early summer, for the fields are ablaze in wildflowers~

Early morning sprinkle captured on the leaves of delicate fronds in nature~

When I first saw these ducks, I was so excited, for I could tell they were a species that I had not seen before, or at least not for a very long time, if ever.  Then, my excitment was quickly dashed, as they did their very best to swim further from me and my camera.
I could not even ID them in my bird guide, but I must say, they were lovely anyway~

Majestic Mountains, Cools Streams and Shortbread Cookies~

One of my favorite colours has been sage green and when I view the sage brush in the west, I am always , made happy;)

Majestic mountains seems to rise from all directions on our travels, one more beautiful, or as beautiful as the last and next~

Sadly many thousands of acres have died due to insects and disease~

Gentle streams, cold, cold... seemed to arrive and leave us many places along the drive this day~

Many of the ranchers out west are so accustomed to their surroundings, that they admit, sometimes they take the beauty foregranted~

Our first Buffalo/Bison encounter was along a stream in Yellowstone and along the roadway~

This curious Raven was walking around our car as we took a break, looking for a handout.  We were reluctant to hand it anything and then after throwing a shortbread to the dog, which she decided she did not want, the Raven flew in to take over.  It was hilarious watching it first pick up the first piece and then work it around to collect the second half before flying away...we later learned that we were not to feed them, yet, I had not meant to at all. There was to be one more encounter of same, before we learned this message~

What Do They Have in Common...

One of the things that I enjoy with travel is the different birds that we get to meet along the way. In KY where we live, we have the Crow, but no Ravens and certainly no Magpies. I first met the Black-billed Magpies two years ago. It was quite a large and beautiful bird and everywhere I saw it, I would ask...what kind of bird is that? No one ever knew and they lived among them, kind of weird, but then not everyone enjoys birds, and could probably have cared less. I had to come back to KY and look them up in my fondest of bird books to ID them. Like the Raven, the Magpie is also in the Crow family. As for the Ravens, I had never seen them up close until this last journey and I found them to be entirely fascinating subjects, just delightful in every way~