Final shots of the trip

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Here are a few miscellaneous photos taken during our time in the US. The first one taken at a botanical garden. I didn't get a real sharp picture of the butterflies, but the water lily sat still long enough to get a couple of pictures.



Except for the cloudy/rainy weather the last half of our trip, the weather was good. Certainly not cold, yet. But fall is coming...we could tell by the pumpkins everywhere. In the supermarket there were little ones of varying patterns:





Outside the fruit and vegetable markets, the pumpkins were somewhat larger, and piled higher.



Some of the green squash took on odd shapes. I think this one swallowed a bird.




And speaking of birds, one day when we were out and about Dallas with Jeff, we heard a racket in the tree in the parking lot and discovered it was full of parrots, and there was at least one large nest up there. Not sure the nest was built by the parrots, but they seemed to have taken over the tree. What caused us to check out the tree was the fact we saw this pair jaywalking, oblivious to the traffic around them. (Click to get a better view of them.)



Last night in Dallas. Went out to eat with Jeff and Liz, who is in her 3rd year of residency as a surgeon at one of the hospitals in Dallas. While we were eating, she got a phone call and had to leave before we had finished eating. Because of her intense work schedule we didn't get to see her much, but even the short time was good.




This is a good time of year to travel because we miss the heat of summer and the cold of winter in the States, but it is also school time for the grandkids. We were fortunate to be at Chris and Rachel's over a holiday weekend. Not so at Rick and Margaret's: we only got to see Rick's two children, Gabby and Joel a couple of hours on two nights, and unfortunately none of the pictures we took there turned out very good. The time everywhere was short, but the visits everywhere were great!