Alina and I were eating lunch today at a local Chinese buffet (mmm, coconut shrimp) and Alina noticed the t-shirt one of the workers at the restaurant was wearing. It said "I (image of tornado) Kansas".
She said "What does that mean? I tornado Kansas? It doesn't make any sense."
I said "It's like I "heart" Kansas but with a tornado there instead of a heart because they are both a little funnel shaped and Kansas has a lot of tornadoes. And we love it anyway."
She skeptically responded, "Maybe it means we love the tornado victims in Kansas because we do not love the tornadoes!"
I suspect, like her mother, it will be many years before she will appreciate our stormy weather here.

Later, I was out at Troy's mom's fishing (witness the bass I caught, my one and only catch today) and I felt a sudden cool breeze. I looked up at the sky and saw this:

Now I ask you, is there any wonder why people in my part of the world are so obsessed with the sky? It is so huge and busy!
And then the breeze got a little stronger, and these more gray clouds moved in:

When I got home, Kalyn agreed to go driving around with me looking for wild flowers. And this is what the sky looked like:

Awesome!!
I didn't take this picture, someone posted it on facebook. A bunch of people took pictures of it and posted them. But I pulled over to look at it and Kalyn did not understand what was so interesting about it.
Really??

These are the flowers we cut as we drove around:

I know the wild roses (Troy calls them feral, which means formerly domesticated, but I looked it up and wild works for that definition too. Yes.....our conversations about nature get THAT technical) and also the faux Queen Ann's Lace, but I'm trying to find out what those white bell shaped flowers are. They cover pastures here right now. And also those dark pink orchidy looking things, I don't know what those are. They are a flowering vine.

I love having a wild flower bouquet! The tiger lilies, which Kalyn tells me are not actually tiger lilies, according to a knowledgeable friend of hers, are not quite ready yet. I have seen a couple, but I won't take any until they are in full bloom.  And I just missed the Spiderwort, otherwise known as cow slobbers. Is that enough flower geekiness for you? I could go on......
No? Okay.

Perhaps I should just go to bed now?........Alrighty.