K is for Kites and Kudos

First for the Kudo! This lovely award came from Lisa at Laughing Orca Ranch. Lisa and her family are living a real country life among a variety of critters high in New Mexico. Today she told us about her rare and beautiful, blue eyed, black Karakul sheep, Svetlana. Thank you for this award, Lisa!


I'm going to pass this on (I know some of you don't paste awards on your sidebars, but I wanted to acknowledge you anyway) to:

Changes in the Wind
The Old Sourdough
Grannie Annie
Mary Beth
Jan
Lydia
Granny J.
and last, but far from least, my beautiful Granddaughter, Alicia

And if anyone else would like this little jewel on their sidebar, please help yourself!


Now for Kites..

Here are some some basic kite types....bat, diamond, triangle, sled, box, and some windsocks


A fantastic dragon kite from the Smithsonian Kite Festival in Washington D. C.

A Chinese Dragon kite........

I really like this squid!

This photo wouldn't enlarge for me, but I wanted to include it because we used to make sled kites from trash bags just like this one. They flew higher and better than any kites we'd ever bought, but had a bad habit of breaking any string or line and sailing blithely away into the wild blue yonder. We tried all kinds of line, but it was stronger than any tether....

There are kite festivals all over the world when winds blow fresh with a greening spring and a hint of summer to come.