Honoring our Mothers

With the motor home settled into a parking place in central Oklahoma, we're taking another car trip to visit family members elsewhere. Our first stop is the panhandle of Oklahoma, where both of our Mothers still live. So we're visiting them for Mother's Day! At 89- and 91-years-old, our two mothers have a life-time of "stuff." So we thought the best gift we could give them is our time. We used some of that time to work on projects at their houses. That included pulling weeds and cleaning up a yard that has been neglected while Denisa's Mother spent the winter in south Texas. We raked up piles of grass and weeds in the front and back yards to haul away.

After trimming trees and pulling weeds, we had an entire pick-up load of debris.

We didn't take many pictures during the four days we spent visiting our Mothers. So Denisa is happy to include shots of some Oklahoma wildflowers.

After weeks of enjoying the Texas hill country bluebonnets, we can say that the dry Oklahoma panhandle puts on a more subtle show.

We're not seeing hills covered with a blanket of flowers. But it is fun to see dainty floral creations among the buffalo grass on a walk in the pasture.

There is a natural beauty when we include our red clay soil with a yellow bloom framed with that blue cloudy sky.

This tiny barrel cactus was also strutting its best spring bloom. It looks like we are wandering God's wonders again today.

The horizons are flat here, and the blue skies filled with puffy white clouds make a pretty picture.

We're not getting as much exercise as we like, so the two of us decided to walk the two miles back to the house. That slow pace allowed us to see the tiny beauties at our feet that we would have usually missed.

We're glad that our schedule now allows us to stop and see the flowers.

While sitting with Mark's Mother, we were doing some bird watching on her new bird feeder.

Since we've loaded this blog with lots of boring flower pictures, we might as well end it with lots of boring bird pictures taken from our perch on the porch.

From that perch we also got front row seats to two birds making strange moves in the grass. We couldn't tell if they were fighting or courting. Isn't it interesting that some times it's hard to tell the difference?

So on this Mother's Day weekend, we enjoyed some lazy spring weather with our Mothers. We gave them the gift that most aged parents appreciate the most--time with their children.

We were glad for a break from the rain and stormy weather, so we have to include another picture of the beautiful sky on this special weekend when we honored our Mothers.