The Oklahoma weathermen were hyping up a big winter storm was heading our way this week, so Alice, Chris and I decided it would be wise to stay indoors for this month’s photo outing.  Chris caught a nasty cold and ended up not making it, so Alice and I went to the Crystal Bridge Conservatory in downtown Oklahoma City.  This is a fun place for me to play with my macro lens and we were both amazed that we spent an hour and a half there!

Here is a slideshow of my favorites.

We had a nice lunch at a favorite lunch spot of mine, Prairie Thunder Baking Company.Oh, and in the end we really didn’t get much more than half an inch of snow!  Phew!!!

We have spent Spring break at home here in Oklahoma for the first time since we moved here in 2006.  It has been lots of fun.  The weather has been glorious and we have caught up on a lot of chores as well as having fun with the kids. 
We have been hiking at Martin Park, visited Daddy at work for breakfast, day tripped to Redrock Canyon State Park and we went to Myriad Gardens in downtown OKC.   We have avoided going to the zoo thankfully.  I read today that they had 16,000 visitors on Tuesday – yikes way too busy for us.

Martin Park

Myriad Gardens

Redrock Canyon State Park

It’s been a fun and cheap “stay-cation”,  we are going back to Scotland for 2 weeks this summer and are saving our pennies for that trip!

It was a beautiful morning today, the kids and hubby had light coats on and I braved it with a sweater!  There was a variety of flowers blooming today, daffodils and other Narcissi and plenty of blooming trees. It all made for a very happy Gill!

We visited the Island Life exhibit and the Flamingos came up the closest they ever have to me.  They are one of my favorite birds and I could have watched them all day but my small impatient people prevailed!

Some peacocks were up on the roof of the Pachyderm house right by Island Life.

More birds, but from Oklahoma Trails. 

It’s not a trip to the zoo without visiting the Orangs.  In this photo Toba is keeping a watchful eye on Elok, the Escape artist who managed to get out of the enclosure a few weeks back

The kids blew off some steam at the playground.  Their objective was not to let me take any photos of them and they would run away screaming when ever I approached them – stinkers!!  I caught one of little lady though!

And apparently they weren’t the only ornery ones at the zoo today…… cheeky!!