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Easter Lily opening up just in time for 9/11. I felt it was a sign!!

Easter Lily opening up just in time for 9/11. I felt it was a sign!!
Originally uploaded by anslatadams

Easter Lily opening up just in time for 9/11. I felt it was a sign!!
Fully opened on 9-11. I nearly cried. What a beautiful symbol!!

In the spring, the flower pot had dirt in it and I KNEW the Easter lily bulb was buried under that dirt. I took it outside when the weather got warm and put some fresh soil in it and gave it some fertilizer and watered it regularly. It came up and throughout the summer got taller and taller. I was amazed. And then the night before 9-11-2010, it started opening!!! On 9/11 it was in full bloom. Tell me this wasn't a sign from God. I am a person that believes that God talks to us all the time and especially through His creation. I was so humbled when I saw it, I started crying. For awhile I put it on the front porch next to our flag so that passerbys would see it. Then I brought it inside. As of September 13th and now the 14th it is STILL IN FULL BLOOM AND THE FRAGRANCE FILLS OUR APARTMENT.

Easter Lily opening up just in time for 9/11. I felt it was a sign!!

Easter Lily opening up just in time for 9/11. I felt it was a sign!!
Originally uploaded by anslatadams

Easter Lily opening up just in time for 9/11. I felt it was a sign!!
This was it opening getting ready to open the night before 9/11.
In the spring, the flower pot had dirt in it and I KNEW the Easter lily bulb was buried under that dirt. I took it outside when the weather got warm and put some fresh soil in it and gave it some fertilizer and watered it regularly. It came up and throughout the summer got taller and taller. I was amazed. And then the night before 9-11-2010, it started opening!!! On 9/11 it was in full bloom. Tell me this wasn't a sign from God. I am a person that believes that God talks to us all the time and especially through His creation. I was so humbled when I saw it, I started crying. For awhile I put it on the front porch next to our flag so that passerbys would see it. Then I brought it inside. As of September 13th and now the 14th it is STILL IN FULL BLOOM AND THE FRAGRANCE FILLS OUR APARTMENT.

The boss of my computer, Bugaboo! LOL!!

The boss of my computer, Bugaboo! LOL!!
Originally uploaded by anslatadams

Somehow, Bugaboo can sense when I am on the Siamese Cats and Their Feline Brothers, group on Flickr, lol!! He gets on my lap and will try to "paw" the keys while I'm trying to work! lol! Look at this face!! He KNOWS he's boss! I wish it had come out a little clearer, but still, I like it. Photo taken by me from my Flickr photostream. Look at that face! lol! So cute!

The Cougar

The Cougar
Originally uploaded by Cgilden58

Beautiful big cat!!

Other than zoos, the only encounters I have had with big cats is this:
(1) I came face to face with a Bob Cat when I lived in Georgia when I was about 10 or 12 years old. There were still a lot of woods around us, but they were developing a subdivision behind ours. I hated it. I was hoping we would always have wilderness around us. Anyway, I guess the Bob Cat was just as bewildered as I was upon meeting me!
We just stared at each other. I thought at first it was a very HUGE domesticated cat, lol! But I noticed the ear tufts and the tufts around its face and finally he turned and ran in the other direction and that's when I saw his bobbed tail!
We used to have a lot of them around where we lived when I was growing up, but development drove them away. So sad.
(2) I HEARD a Cougar or Mountain Lion roaring or "screaming" when we were camping in the Berkshire mountains of Western Massachusetts!! I think these beautiful cats and all wildlife deserve to have some room for them to still live wild. So sad when they end up in cages in zoos, etc. Man is developing so much, animals are running out of room to live and then the ultimate problem arises when they start encountering humans!
Now I kind of think I know how the Native Americans must have felt when the white man came along!!
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