thank you

Thanks very much for the morning off tomorrow.  I am SUPER excited.  < See, I even used caps.  That is how excited I am.  Anyway, to celebrate I thought I'd upload a few photos from my winter break in Palm Springs (warm weather please come back).

Everything is so bright and beautiful there, I want to go back!

A fan palm in the middle of a Palm Oasis (area in the desert where a group of palms grow).

A view across a bridge in the Palm Oasis.

This was, as we called him, my grandpa's hummingbird.  They are very curious — don't really care how close someone is to the feeder, as long as it's not another bird.

The most beautiful part of this bird was the gleaming pink/purple neck.

and finally, this is probably the funniest picture EVER.  We told him to smile normally, and this is what he gave us.