From the heart of the UK to the heart of the USA...

I'm in the lone star state

for SxSW in Austin this week...

and I find myself falling in love with rural America all over again.

I love visiting all the beautiful parts of this great country!

Have you been to Austin? Where should we go for some cool cowboy shirts?

Back at the zoo...er...I mean home...

I loved every moment in the UK...

the scenery both in the countryside, and in the glorious city that is London, awed me, and left me wishing I had more time still for looking around and taking it all in.

Well, after a night trapped at the airport in Newark, NJ, I hopped one of the only flights getting out - after final boarding...and the fact that it was headed to Fort Myers - and am home again with my crazy animals. I missed them. (okay, so mostly the poodle)

It's nice to be back, and even though I'm doing battle with an over grown Pink Grapefruit tree right now - the tree is winning! - I have to admit that I love being in flip flops, feeling the warmth of the sun on my back while I working in a tank top, and that

Florida is still the place for me!