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Gillette, WY
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August 10, 2013

Prairie Flowers

I don’t have much energy to write, although there are a million and one things I’d like to write about: World Breastfeeding Week, the county fair, planning our upcoming homeschool year, the house being done (at least as far as phase one is concerned), just to name a few.  But there’s barely any time left in Friday and I have to be up bright and early tomorrow to run errands, so all of that is going to have to be coming soon.  I hope.  My mother, stepfather, and two of my brothers will be here for a week starting Sunday, and I’m hoping that I can take advantage and get some things done, blogging included.

In the meantime I wanted to share a couple pictures from this afternoon.  We snuck through the barbed wire (no small feat with a baby, mind you) into the field behind our house because we just couldn’t resist the wildflowers.

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I’ve been staring at these thick patches of purple flowers out my window for days and today we decided to go check them out.

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I have no idea what they are, but they smell wonderful (sort of like lilacs) and they make the perfect photo backdrop.

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And, they are, apparently, quite delicious, too.

I feel so lucky to have this beautiful view out my windows.  We’ve heard that this has been an unusually wet summer; I don’t know if we’ll see flowers to this magnitude again, but I sure hope so.  Fields of sweet-smelling prairie flowers aren’t something to complain about, especially when they’re right out your window.

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    August 10, 2013

    Beautiful!!!

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