Wordless Wednesday!

Spotting Eagles

I find it interesting the differences between Oklahoma (where I grew up and lived for 45+ years) and Minnesota (we moved here in a little over 6 years ago). For sure, the way certain words are pronounced is an obvious one you might readily think of, or just the diffence in the weather and temperature. But I never thought much about different areas having different 'wildlife' really, until I moved up here. Very rarely do you drive along and get a good strong whiff of where a skunk has been, and honestly, not sure I've ever seen a skunk out and about up here. I absolutely have never seen an armadillo this far north and occassionally will see an opussum or two (but nothing like the ones 'I've' seen)! We get excited when we're driving along and see a field full of pheasants, golden gophers or wild turkeys and especially when you walk out your back door and come face to face with a few deer passing through the back yard! We've even seen a few 'varments', we've only had to guess at what they were. I find it really exciting on the rare occassions we will see an Eagle flying overhead or swooping down to retrieve something from the ground. That's something I never remember seeing in Oklahoma, except for the ones in the Zoo, of course.

Over the last several weeks, Robert has been having to take a different route to work because of the roads 'south' out of Chaska have been closed due to the Minnesota River being up and flooding the roads. He's been seeing an eagle flying around in one area pretty regularly, and also, finally decided he'd spotted a nest high in the trees. I finally saw the nest last week on my way into Eden Prairie and even located another one further down the river. Well, we decided this weekend we would drive over and hike as close as we could get to it and try to take some pictures. So these are the result of that hike. We really couldn't see with our 'naked' eyes that there was anything in the nest, but once I got home and put the pictures on my computer, you can definately see an eagle sitting in the nest. Also, Sunday afternoon, Jessie and I headed back that way to go to the mall, and when we drove by there was a big eagle sitting out on the limb by the nest! Unfortunately, I did not have my camera with me though.

Spring Choir Concert

Finally, it's spring. And that means Jessie's Bellisima class had their spring concert this week. I just wanted to share the video's with those of you that can't make the concert. We miss having you hear with us, that's for sure.

The concert also included the 7/8th grade boys choir, 6th grade mixed choir & 8th grade Bellisima girls as well. The video's the entire combined choirs together for the finale. I know I'm prejudiced, but Jessie's group really did the best. Enjoy!

I KNOW it's been a really long time since I've blogged and I'm a TERRIBLE blogger! But... with the holidays and travel, etc., PLUS, I'm a Grandma!!! Harper Ann Senn was born on January 12, 2010 and she is absolutely gorgeous!!! Just had to post this cute picture of her!