I love spring.

Because it’s a prelude to summer and sandals and sunny, lazy days. Because we’re this close to firefly season. Because it’s flip-flop time, baby!

Camping at Petit Jean State Park.

And now for the latest weirdness in the Frye household:

The duck.

It seems that Bandit, our big red Aussie, has developed a rather intense fondness for this ugly concrete doorstop. He curls up around it, pushes it around the deck when he chooses another spot in which to sun himself and even turns it over so that he can rest his chin on its head.

I’m still trying to capture a photo of Bandit AND the duck, but he apparently senses my intent to embarrass him.