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Joe & Reta's Keystone Lake cottage |
| The cyprus and palm trees are terrific. They remind me of coastal South Carolina. |  |
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Joe had a big fancy pontoon boat but we enjoyed just poking around in George Hanson's old rowboat. |
| At Reta & Joe's house we were treated to a Monarch show. Linda had a cage with several Monarchs coming to adulthood and emerging from their crysalis ready to be released. |  |
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I have less white hair than Reta does :-) |
| Ryan was a big surprise since we last saw him. He has gotten so tall. |  |
 The gang lined up at a restaurant halfway between Tampa and David & Laura's house in Orlando. |
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We drove out to Howard County Park near Tarpon Springs |
| New Mexicans gravitate to water at every opportunity. |  |
 The fog and reflections over Keystone Lake at dawn |
| I really enjoyed sitting out on the end of the dock with binoculars and a cup of morning coffee. We saw an amazing collection of birds, Wood Ducks, Great Blue Heron, Egrets, diving ducks, Cormorant, seagulls, Osprey, Vultures, crows, redheaded woodpeckers and a large hawk that was busy building a nest in one of the Cypress trees right next to the dock. |  |
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 It looks like a jungle with the vines growing up the trees. |
 Coffee is the drink of the morning then wine has its turn in the evening. I am contemplating our last day, tomorrow we will be homeward bound. |
This is New Orleans and the Mississippi River from the window of our plane. Lake Ponchatrain is at the top.
 Flying over Texas, we saw a forest fire and another plane crossing our path just below us. |
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Home again. The next morning we saw a hot air balloon float by our bedroom window. Blue missed us and he has his foot on Carol's so we wont leave again :-) |