I finally did it!!!! (photographic evidence included!)

Michael B.
on 3/12/08 5:44 am, edited 3/12/08 5:50 am - Gilbert, AZ

With just ten days left in the Exer-Thon, I have finally gotten off my butt for some "ofiicial exercise" I brought along my camera to mark the occasion....It is said that the best exercise involves doing something you actually enjoy, and for me that involves flowers and photography. So yesterday my wife played hookie from work and we took advantage of the the rare afternoon without kids to check out the bumper crop of wildflowers that the desert has sprouted after an unusually wet winter this year. Let me know what you think!

Poppies are the star of the show this time of the year...

Enjoying the view...notice that I suffer from "noassatall" disease!

...cool picture of the trail and a sagauro cactus...

River of Gold!

Poppies make me sleepy!

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Katie L.
on 3/12/08 5:53 am - Buckeye, AZ

RNY on 11/05/07

SO pretty!! Was that down by Picacho? I want to go!!

Michael B.
on 3/12/08 5:58 am - Gilbert, AZ

RNY on 03/29/07

Actually it is here in the Valley in the Supestition Mountains. I took the Jacob's Crosscut Trail from Lost Dutchman State Park (located on AZ 88 about six miles north of US60 via Idaho Rd. through Apache Junction....the trail is easy and relatively flat except for crossing a few washes...I plan on taking my four year old daughter on it this weekend...p.s. I heard the blooms on picacho peaked two weeks ago, so save the gas and head east instead!

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Jennifer K.
on 3/12/08 5:59 am - Phoenix , AZ

RNY on 06/20/06

sheesh Im jealous! gorgeous! The daffodils have started to bloom here and the cherry blossoms... but thats it so far... I will have to take pix! I am looking forward to the tulips blossoming!

First visit to surgeon - 288 ~ bmi 45.1
2 week pre-op 252 ~ bmi 39.5
Total lost - 153 Since surgery - 117!
Goal weight - 155 (mine) 180 (surgeons)
Current weight - 135 (2020 I lost 10lbs due to dedicating myself to working out more and being in better shape)

1/14/2025 still maintaining 135 :-)

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Amy B.
on 3/12/08 6:22 am - Deerfield, IL

RNY on 11/16/05

BEAUTIFUL! I am so jealous. All I've been looking at outside since October is snow, slush, more snow, dirty snow from trucks spreading sand on the roads and ice. Winter in Wisconsin lasts forever and it sucks. So thanks for the glimpse of green and yellow and blue skies! So pretty! And I love the white socks...very sexy

Amy 293/140 - AT GOAL!

floflo1981
on 3/12/08 8:21 am - Huntsville, AL

RNY on 04/23/07

How beautiful!!! Nice that you have excercise that is so invigorating...LOL

Lilypie - (zx1x)

Pre-op 284/Current 180/Goal 145 5'5
Surgery Date:April 23, 2007

IzosMommy
on 3/12/08 2:37 pm - TX

Lap Band on 03/27/08

Very pretty. Looks exhilerating. Nice Wizard of Oz reference.

Michael B.
on 3/12/08 3:11 pm - Gilbert, AZ

RNY on 03/29/07

You got it!!!!! I wasn't sure if anybody would remember that quote from the Wicked Witch of the West "......very attractive to the eye, and soothing to the smell. Poppies. Poppies! Poppies will put them to sleep. Sleeeeeeeeeep - now they'll sleep.