Happy New Year ~ The Beagle Steals the Show

Hello!!!

Happy 2016!

I have returned from my

unintended 6 month vacation from blogging!

So, I started my return by heading out into the

snowy, prairie wind

to take a nature photo

for the little Facebook challenge I am doing.

I got down on the ground to get a good view of the snow blowing in the wind.

And this is what happened:

Yes, he thought it was time to play.

And then I remembered that I came out here for 

"nature photos".

So, back to that.

Here is our road to our home

that my husband and son

just drove through not 30 minutes

prior to this photo.

Isn't this lovely?

Kinda makes you want to move to the prairie?

Maybe not?

Keeps out the "riff-raff".

That's what we say around here.

Not to be outshined

by sparkling snow,

Toby the beagle decides

to take

a Beagle Bath:

Now. 

A clean beagle.

Today also happens to be my husband's birthday

and I was just thinking this morning that we didn't have

a recent photo together in the past year.

So here comes the photo op . . . 

announced by the beagle:

Here comes my son and my husband. 

So here's our latest photo together...

Happy Birthday, Jim! 

Happy New Year 2016!