Aloha Fred .. that sounds like Fred & Mary's Great Adventure" .. take your boat through the Panama Canal and splash in the magnificent Pacific! Oh Yeah!

Mahalo et Merci for sharing your observation that "puddles just get bigger" .. so true. Bill

So good to hear from you. A lovely fun idea for a Monday morning...I think I too will stomp through the very next puddle I see! Best wishes from Southwest Virginia.

Rain in Phoenix .. Yeah !! What a magnificent morning you must have awakened to .. rain in the desert is always incredible. Enjoy, Karen, Enjoy !!!

Mahalo et Merci, Bill

The delight of the young children is contagious! It adds a bright spot to everyone's day who is lucky enough to see it. Also, the orchids are magnificent. I'd like to be a small bug and crawl up inside of one of the blossoms and spend the day admiring its form and vivid colors. Mille mercis! P.S. One Easter morning following a downpour, I saw a young family getting out of their car. The little boy dressed in white shoes and his Easter "finery" headed straight for the closest puddle. His mother didn't seem upset by the fun he was having. Maybe they had been to an early church service.....or maybe she had learned that that was what little boys do best!

Thank YOU Mom, for enjoying my blog .. you and everyone else! I am so fortunate to have such incredible readers.

Love,
Your Son Bill

Bill,
I was looking for very old pictures from my mother's time and came across pictures of my children in the backyard, splashing in their plastic play pool. The pool was positioned at the bottom of a slide, so they had some bigger splashes. Children are the same everywhere, aren't they? We need to learn from them.
I loved the photo with the moon in view through the palm tree. I've been capturing images for a Google photo group and one of the themes was moon/sun. Of course, the weather had other ideas with no moon or sun very visible that week. Finally, when it was fairly clear outside, I asked Jim to hold a box of MOON pies in the sky. They liked it ! The Moon Pie company even shared it on their page. Have a good day and slip slide, but don't fall in those puddles.

Fred .. Thank you so much for this comment. The flowers never cease to amaze in their perfection (interesting to note that few flowers are more beautiful than Spring Tulips arriving after the snow in Lander). I am very grateful my writing is pleasing to you as well .. thank you, Fred, for your kind words.

Mahalo et Merci,
Bill