It's a new year, and I'm still trying to get caught up with the old one. What have I been doing?
October: Less than one week after getting home from the Crow Barn, Brian and I went to Maryland to visit his brother, Bruce. We enjoyed his new home, visited the Black Walnut Point Inn, hiked, and visited Alexandria. Wonderful!
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Early November is fall here in Fort Worth, so when I got home I thought I would visit the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens' Japanese garden. It was too early for the Japanese maples to show color, but I came within two feet of this great blue heron:
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