ALL ABOUT ME...AND EGRETS AND ALLIGATORS

So have you missed me?  I haven't been posting much lately,  nor have I been visiting around in Blogland nearly as often as I once did, because I've been busy with family responsibilities and other demands on my time.  Today we went to the funeral of a good friend of Grandpère and left from there to go to New Orleans for me to have my left eye zapped with a laser to remove the cloudiness which sometimes occurs after cataract surgery.  Now I have clear vision in both eyes.  Yay!

Two egrets visiting with each other

 
We stopped on the way home and had a nice meal at Spahr's Seafood in Des Allemands, where the view is fabulous, with a lake in the distance and a bayou just behind the restaurant.  A sign near the bayou said, "WATCH OUT FOR THE ALLIGATORS!"  No joke, for we saw an alligator during our meal.  Three egrets were hanging out near the bayou, giving us our fair share of wildlife.

Lone egret checking out the other two

My family responsibilities are not going away any time soon, so I will blog less and spend less time on Facebook.  I love chatting with my Facebook friends, but my heart is in blogging, which remains my priority.

My favorite - Egret in flight

No photo of the alligator.  Only the head was out of the water, and it was some distance away.  In truth, I was rather excited about seeing the creature and didn't think of taking a picture.  A group at the next table included two teenage girls from England, who were visiting their grandmother, and I was happy for them to see our native wildlife.

The view

Apropos of nothing in this post, a couple of afternoons ago, a helicopter circled rather low round and round our house and neighboring houses, and I thought, "Is it me?  Are 'they' spying on me?"  Ha-ha.  Just kidding...I think.  When the drones come, I will know.  I'll take egrets to helicopters any day.