ALL  GOOD  THINGS  MUST  COME

TO  AN  END!

By that I mean.....these were some nice looking, tall, straight trees in their 'day'.  But...their day had to come to an end at some point.  They just got a little too tall.....not nice looking any more.

 Maybe a few too many heavy snows piled up on them as well.

 We 'borrowed' our grandson, Tim, for a few hours to help grandpa cut them down to a more manageable size.

 Might not look quite the best YET.....but it is a start.  We will finish them another day.  Tim even commented that he never knew we had a chimney in there!

AND......then these BAMBI'S!  They are cute aren't they!?  Well.....

 If truth be told.......THEY LOVED EVERY BITE of our beautiful, full  flower bed of IMPATIENTS!!  They were very, very pretty flowers.....they at least left us about 1/3 of them.  Although that may be their breakfast for tomorrow morning.  Those little critters are brave to come so close to the house!!  I suppose they are used to our being away from home and feel free to roam anywhere they want to!

 On the way home from our NCFA Office in Alexandria, Va. today we decided to pull off at a little parking area along the GW Parkway right by the runway of REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT!  Watching those planes come in for a landing ....... WELL, we felt like we could just reach out and touch them!!  A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!!

We thought we could even see the eyes of some of the passengers smiling as they were coming in for a landing!  That is how close they were.