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Old Ranch Country Club Snaps 4/25/2013

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

Golf Is OK.... Flowers Are Great

2/15/2008 | 11/7/2008 | 4/24/2013 | 4/25/2013

Quotations To Remember:

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.  ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

Earth laughs in flowers.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.  ~Emma Goldman

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.  ~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat



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It was a great day in the out of doors


It was a great Spring day!

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Reds and pinks were everywhere

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Mother Nature is an amazing person

Did You Know? - Mother Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth) is a common personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it in the form of the mother. Images of women representing mother earth, and mother nature, are timeless.

In prehistoric times, goddesses were worshipped for their association with fertility, fecundity, and agricultural bounty. Priestesses held dominion over aspects of Incan, Algonquian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Slavonic, Germanic, Roman, Greek, Indian, and Iroquoian religions in the millennia prior to the inception of patriarchal religions.

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An explosion of white....

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"I am looking at you!"

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Amazing structures

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The birds are here

Did You Know? - Strelitzia is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. It belongs to the plant family Strelitziaceae.

The genus is named after the duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, birthplace of Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom. A common name of the genus is bird of paradise flower, because of a supposed resemblance of its flowers to the bird of paradise. In South Africa it is commonly known as a crane flower and is featured on the reverse of the 50 cent coin.

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Now we are talking red

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Magnificent colors on this bright day

Did You Know? - Bougainvillea (also known as Napoleón (Honduras), veranera (Colombia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama), trinitaria (Colombia, Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic & Venezuela), Santa Rita (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay) or papelillo (northern Peru)) is a genus of flowering plants native to South America from Brazil west to Perú and south to southern Argentina (Chubut Province).

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We pause for a fly over of a tilt-rotor aircraft.... V-22 Osprey

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Greens and yellows oh my

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Hawthorns were simply amazing today

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There are occasional roses on the course....

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Blues and greens and whites, oh my!

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Here come da man..... James makes his way down sixteen

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Picture taken from high on the hill overlooking sixteen

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The duckers await a snack on the 18th hole

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" Hang on... Let me adjust my feathers"

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"OK... You can snap now!"