Happy Summer!

Leach, OK 4th of July Fireworks

Summer is here and as usual has slipped up on me. We have had such a wonderfully cool and rainy spring! The weather has been perfect... We have greatly enjoyed it and have been taking advantage of the lovely 70-90 degree weather every chance we can get... visiting many interesting places around us. :)

Lake Wedington

The blackberries in our area loved the cool weather also. Copious amounts of berries ripen along every dirt road around the home place. We have picked to our hearts content, enjoying warm, fresh blackberry cobbler with homemade ice cream. We picked enough to put some berries in the freezer so we can enjoy the taste of summer later in the year... Yummy!

Flowers & Blackberries

We actually had a visitor from Arizona this summer! My SIL came out to visit for a week. We really enjoyed her company and had lots of fun working in the garden, helping her learn to milk Blondie, making cheese, and lots of other fun farm stuff. 

Meeting Emily (Guernsey heifer)

Learning to milk Blondie

We took a day off to float the Illinois river. It was a beautiful day and we had a perfect trip. :) We even floated by a pirate ship...

Illinois River

Having fun!

Pirate ship :)

Lunch break...what a view!

Another day we ventured to Fayetteville for dinner and stopped on the way to hike Natural Falls. There is so much beauty nearby!

Natural Falls

After our week together in Oklahoma, it was time to head to Arizona to return my SIL to her family and have a nice visit there with family. We had a good road trip with many enjoyable side trips and I really enjoyed the company. :) Pictures of our road trip adventures soon... Meanwhile...back at the ranch... summer is here to relax and enjoy. Have a great one!

Pepper relaxing on the deck

Peach Hibiscus bloom...Beautiful