Not Chicken To Review Chicken

 About a week ago, we drove through Raising Cane's chicken fingers restaurant. Do you have any where you live? Here is their menu.

This Garlic Bread was by far the best thing on the menu.

The chicken fingers and sauce were good, the fries were terrible!

This was on the side of the wall. A dog and a fish! I was curious.

Turns out the dog was the founder's yellow lab named Cane.

The fish is a story for another day.

“If loving chicken fingers is wrong, I don’t want to be right.”

Garden Cuties

 Another trip to the Garden Center. I didn't buy anything, but there were plenty of cool things to look at. I'll start with this fat pig.

Frogs on a swing

Flying owls

Crazy birds

Most of these next photos were actually solar lights.

“Steel blooms too — just in its own wild way.”

It's Done!

 Here is the partially done mural that I posted a couple days ago.

Today it was finished! The colors of the flowers and clouds, plus bees, all painted.

This is the cart that the painters have been using. It can adjust to go up and down as needed.

I love her bees. I think they are so accurate.

“A mural makes the wall breathe.”

Sunday Sunset - Straight Lines

 I liked the way the clouds alternated colors in horizontal straight lines.

“A May sunset is spring’s final whisper of gold.”

Street Art

Every year our city has a "Street Art Festival". Artists paint murals on many buildings in town. And there are activities, tours, music groups, and markets. And it is this weekend! But one mural had to be started early, so here is a sneak peek!

The mural is only partially done, to be finished this weekend. See where the rest of it is penciled in on the upper part of the wall? This one is called "The Little Things".

“A mural of flowers turns a wall into a wandering meadow.”

Chickens Impossible

 The local quilt museum has a showing called Chicken Impossible. It is a display of the work of quilters creating whimsical chickens. I saw a preview online.

The one is called Gogh Van Cluck

“Cluck softly and carry on.”

The Lantern

My Mother's Day gift was this solar lantern!

It has a stained-glass dragonfly. It has both a solar panel and a battery. And it even came with the long crook to hang it from outside.

Here it is when it is lit up for the night.

I had always wanted one of these outside solar lights, and was so surprised!

“Even the fireflies pause for a lantern.”

Mother's Day 2026

 Our son and granddaughters came over today. Here I am with Mike.

Here are our two youngest granddaughters.

They brought me this pretty bouquet of flowers.

And Jazz put together these Lego flowers for me.

But that's not all. They gave me an amazing gift. But I cannot post it until I charge it up. Stay tuned...

“Mothers turn ordinary days into home.”

Sunday Sunset

 

"I find it incredibly amazing how, at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory."

Sanober Khan

Peonies

 The Peonies at the house down the street have bloomed. they are beautiful.

These tiny flowers under them are apparently Columbine.

These are some other Peonies I saw awhile back. Different from the others, but just as pretty.

“A peony is a blossom dreaming in layers.”