Flashback 2 1/2 weeks to the early morning of June 19...Kim and I savored a delightful, calm Friday morning on nearby Summit Lake.

As lots of violet flowers are blooming in our cabin gardens right now, a nod to Prince...

...purple reigns.

Kim and I have gone bird-bonkers over the Baltimore orioles that have been hanging around our backyard.

Yet another miracle has happened in the midst of this pandemic mess.

Magnolia...

While the nesting pair of bald eagles are the stars of the Summit Lake avian show, there are some other beautiful birds to be enjoyed (and photographed!).

According to the innocent assessment a child I know (not naming any names...), you know someone is OLD when they start watching birds.

You CAN'T go to Africa without doing a safari, of course, so during our brief stay at Sweetwaters Camp near Mt. Kenya, we did a few game drives through the Ol Pejeta Conservancy.

It's one of my earliest elementary school memories...this song that our class sang for a spring program when I was in first- or second-grade...

So this happened....