Several weeks ago I started walking the dogs out at Discovery Park early in the morning before it gets too hot. It’s a nice walk, we start at the Glen Meadows Park and walk a little over 1 ½ miles round trip. We usually see cottontails, jack rabbits and quail and I’ve seen snake tracks a few times but luckily no snakes yet. There are frogs and a duck and for a while, there was a crane, in the pond. There is also a family of Long Eared owls. I almost always see at least one of them in the cottonwoods by the benches where we stop for a drink of water. We’ve even seen javelina on Sunday evenings when we take the grandkids out for a walk.

So today, I was walking along looking out at the dead tree in the pond to see if one of the owls is there when I hear a loud CRACK! I look at the trees up ahead of me and see a branch falling out of one of the cottonwoods at the side of the pond. Then I hear a weird sound that ended up being a bear sliding out of the tree. It hit the ground and took off running like its tail was on fire! Thankfully in the opposite direction! Wow! He was so fast I didn’t have time to take a picture! What an adventure!

I've been reading a lot lately and we went to see One For the Money and The Woman in Black.  Enjoyed both of them.  I hope they make more of Janet Evanovich's books into movies!

I really enjoyed reading The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen.  Can't wait for the next Rizzoli and Isles book!  I'm listening to Map of Bones by James Rollins.  It's pretty exciting!  I also enjoyed Damaged by Alex Kava and Somebody Tell Aunt Tille She's Dead by Christiana Miller.

Speaking of books!  A friend showed me one I want to add to my collection.  Floral Stitches by Judity Montano. 

I have been stumbling on StumbleUpon.  What an awesome site but very addictive!  So is Pinterest!  I found this and just had to have it for my owl collection!!!

These are the owls that started my collection many years ago!

I've also been quilting.  I finished 3 more Quilted Diamonds blocks.

I'm also working on a butterfly wall hanging and I've got half of the next green paper-pieced block done.   Now!  Back to work!!!