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Summer on Harrison - Bonus

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You might have thought that I would have heard this - our beloved crabapple tree ripping itself in two - or being torn apart by some force super- or some-other natural - but it came as a great surprise when I went out on Tuesday to find an enormous and outwardly healthy limb lying across the backyard and peeking into my bedroom window. Obviously, it wasn't inwardly healthy.  Still, unlike a significant portion of its brethren, it still had a full leaf complement and tiny crabapples (crabapplettes?) Gosh.  Another of my mother's tree companions.  I remember watching my grandparents planting this tree when our home was new.   I'm going to have to find someone to take the entire tree down soon.  I'm not ready to face that today.   In honor of her beauty - I'm sharing photos I've taken over the last 8 years here on Harrison.  Spring, Fall, Winter.   As viewed from my mother's room upstairs.  Her canopy of flowers filled the courtya...
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Thursday: Summer on Harrison

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  Saturday night, you will recall, was the 4th of July.  I watched a couple - ok, 3 - episodes of The Bear and went to bed just before 10.  That's when they started.  Folks all around town started shooting off fireworks.  Boom.  Boom.  POP POP POP.  After listening while lying in bed for a bit, I got up to look out my window.  Wow! Firebursts of red flowers.  Quick grab the camera.  Here's the shot! The booms.  The pop pop pops continued but nothing overcame the tree line again.  Just ominous glowing behind the landscape.  (You can see that on my camera's live function images - those mini videos.  But I haven't figured out how/if I can post them.) Happy Independence Day from and to Versailles.
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Wednesday Zooooop!

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  July 3, 2026
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Traveling Tuesday- Dinosaurs: Colorado, Utah

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  Last summer I dragged Kevin to multiple dinosaur related sites in Colorado and Utah including Dinosaur, Colorado (the town), Dinosaur National Monument, Fruita Dinosaur Journey Museum, Dinosaur Ridge (but we didn't get to actually SEE the exhibit- They were having technical problems with the bus and Zupe was not patient.)  Even the Indianapolis Children's Museum had a banger of a dinosaur exhibit.  I don't have any reasonable fossil photos to share.  Haven't figured out how to capture something of that size- especially when there is so much competing and uninteresting stuff around the skeleton.   Photos 1.  Crossroad in Dinosaur.  You cannot read the full name of both streets, but I think the silhouette atop the street signs will help you put together the missing letters.  (Unless you were woefully deprived of dinosaur education as a child.) 2.  Welcome to Utah!  Life Elevated.  Not sure I see how that describes the image.......
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Monday myself

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  Another summer at the pool.  Once again, I'm on my own.  No Zupe.  No Landon.  Come jump off the board with me.  Please.
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Happy 4th of July!

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from our home to yours...  
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Thursday: Summer on Harrison

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  Evening Primrose -  bienniel.  Looking at this blossom, I'm now understanding why/how it spreads throughout my bed and across the yard into the fence row.  Now, you might be saying, "Well, Ann.  It is a pretty yellow ...  but why here?"  And the answer cannot be captured in a still shot.  You need to watch the video below.  Really.  This is NOT time-lapse.  People I know have brought our their lawn chairs to watch the show...  You can watch NOW from your kitchen.
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