Here's looking at You...
Ever seen a Cow?
Ever looked into their big Brown eyes?
Ever wondered what they look like disected?

Well on visiting the Houston Health museum we saw a disection of a cows eye, apparently similar in make up to the human eye, except bigger.
A child asked why the cows eyes are bigger.



The reply .....because cows are bigger than most humans....

Looking around, the response was appropriate.



It was open house at the Houston Museum district last weekend. Free admission to all museums, so we headed down there to wander around the area.



The next Museum we visited was the Weather Museum followed by the Hollocaust Museum with it's stark and symbolic exterior.





There was many graphic displays and photos as well as a rail car used to transport Jews to the camps from all around Europe. Up to 200 Jews were crammed in on the long hot journeys, the windows sealed with bars to prevent escape. The film we saw at the end was testimonies from Jews living in the Houston area, who were in some of the camps as kids. It was truely gripping, horrifying and moving.

After an informative but not necessarily uplifting morning, we headed to eat and visit the Houston Museum or Art and a wander around Herman Park.

As for things at home, we now have 3 Gerbils. One female in a tank in the lounge downstairs (I took the fish and water out),and 2 males in a cage in Timothys room upstairs.
The female escaped the other day having wedged the wheel and then climbing up the outside of the wheel and through a gap in the lid.




Our house is still in dis-array following the flood weeks ago.
Over the coming week we may see a transformation beginning as the builders are due in to fix the place up.




We have our usual array of bugs and birds visiting us around the house.

Wasps nest.
The inhabitants no longer around following one stinging me on the hand a week or so ago.






Our resident Mocking Bird. It sits on the roof of the house singing in the middle of the night.

Migrants heading South for Winter hanging around to stock up on nectar for the ongoing journey.

Monarch Butterfly on its way to Mexico.

One of many Humming Birds that are currently frequenting the garden fighting for nector and flying at super fast speed around the garden.