Hootin' Anni's Day Trippin'

Most of us have a bad habit we are constantly trying to break.
For me, it's biting my fingernails.
One day I told my husband about my latest solution: press-on nails.
"Great idea, honey," he smiled. "You can eat them straight out of the box."

Our host for this week's Fun Monday is: The Lurchers, and our mission ,if we choose to accept, is simple:

I'm going to make it a nice and easy Fun Monday this week. All I want you to do is take me on your favourite walk. In words or pictures. Or both of course! Tell me why it's your favourite and point out things of interest on the way.

Easy, oh so easy; as I faithfully try to walk every day. But as I said, my routine walking isn't exciting at all. It's just getting outdoors early in the morning and breathing the fresh air and enjoying the peace and quiet before the hustle and bustle of the city's traffic. Usually before anyone else is up and at 'em for the day. It's such a quiet time. Alas, those walks are very mundane. Before dawn-to sunrise. Then, nothing but houses of the 'hood.

I will take you on just a few of my favorite places to walk tho... gorgeous....

Naturally, my first and foremost favorite spot[s] is/are all the beaches around our area. From Rockport, Texas [just a few miles across the Harbor Bridge here in Corpus <— oh ya, you CAN walk across the bridge if you're insane!!! Not me, no way, no how!!!] where the fishing vessels early in the day to mid day are abundant. The area is very quaint and peaceful - to our local beaches. But, in my first photo; this particular time I got an early morning photo of the sunrise. But not of Rockport. Hey, like I said, early in the morning is my favorite time of day to do my walking........

This photo is taken on Mustang Island.


Then, another favorite spot to walk is the park just close to a bay area. It's a great place to walk, and do another favorite of my pastimes...birdwatching. If you're lucky and time it just right during the day/season, you'll see these [rosetta spoonbills -yes, they're naturally pink in color] flying above your head, or perhaps scrounging the marshlands near shore for fish. When you're driving around the area, they can be seen in the sky...they're gorgeous when the sun hits them!!! When I plan on walking this park, walkway, I take my binoculars. The boardwalk ends several feet off the bay as to not disturb the fowl in any way because it's a protected area. [Flowers trees marsh grasslands are abundant in the area. Oh, and reptiles too! I have seen several snakes, and with the marshlands, I really wouldn't be surprised if I see an alligator...they've been known to frequent this area also!!




Again, over the Harbor Bridge just a few miles up the road, walking along the shores, you can see the most beautiful scenery around --


[now THIS in Rockport]

---oh, and inclement weather, I hit the malls!!!


~...end Fun Monday
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Kitten is our host for next week.


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I made this award/gift a few weeks ago, and first handed it out to thirteen of my favorite blogs. I think it's high time to hand it out to others again....


As I somewhat stated in the previous award hand out:

Since it's my award to give, I personally like the bloggers who have a great outlook, ones who don't continually complain over such trivial things in their blogs like a backache, or a cold...you know the 'woe is me' kind --[sorry people, but in my take on life, there are so many others in the whole world that have much more reason to feel down and out, with no means of support, hunger, homelessness, job layoffs, etc. etc. etc.] Even I've had many a chance to say "Oh look at me....I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree". But, in all that has been dealt I try to find the silver lining..."God gives me what I can handle...work with it, Anni, stop your whining" and make the best of it!!! Others may not agree with that, but I strongly believe that for all things, there is a reason. There perhaps is a strong learning process that goes with what is handed over in life- i.e., ...Tolerance, giving against your will, learning from your error[s], faith, or even disbelief and then hopefully finding it again, joy, being able to laugh at trivial things [another philosophy in life I've learned the hard way is to say "100 years from now it'll make no difference"], self-discipline --I could go on...so, so many things. I've also learned that it's not always easy; that there are challenges given to us to become a stronger person. And, I'm not stating this in any means that you are in agreement...it's my outtake only. Today, I choose others that are willing to strive in the trials and tribulations [from what I read in their blogging style] and see a rose, stop and smell it, and enjoy living!!! They are the givers--------

So, this time, the list begins here:

Mary at Mary's Treasured Memories

Mar at Maremagnum

Ellen at Happy Wonderer

Mike at Rambling Stuff

Betty at Betty's This and That

Junie at Junie's Place


It's a gift from me...I know that you know that YOU ROCK!!!! [no need to pass this on either...it's for you and you only for now.]




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