Grand dogs would be a lovely alternative so long as they lived fairly near by.
My seven year old boy on the left is half heeler and half Australian shepherd. His personality is all heeler especially in terms of his low regard for affection. But he is a very kind dog who only growls at those with the temerity to try to pet him. But other dogs are always treated well and he has zero prey drive.
Not sure what this has to do with creation, I just like the pic and I couldn’t even tell you exactly why.
Thanks. I’m sure this is a regular feature of life in a snowy winter but we never see that.
Jackson “the Bird” Pollock!
Closest I get is mud tracks xd.
The photos don’t do it well. But this one was exceptionally blue looking in the light. Just a little juniper sapling. I felt in the close up the blue was a bit more noticeable.
It is …but besides deer tracks, I am not very good at identifying them My dad, always one for laughing at himself and making me feel better, told me the story of how he thought he was getting good at following a rabbit’s tracks in the snow…till it ran up a tree! I am in the same boat.
Oh yeah, you can definitely see the blue in the close-up. Beautiful!
Some oranges and yellows in nature from todays hike. I really like clay mud puddles with that orangish look to it. Yet it still reflects very well. The fungi is a jelly mushroom called witch’s butter and is edible.
Really liked these lichen shots. One day I’ll get a key to them and begin studying out lichens and mosses. Probably do it side by side with my mushrooms and trees lol.
Thankfully we were back into the 70’s today. Short of another cold front it should mostly be 50s-70s until spring when we hit 60s-80s and then the best weather is summer with mostly upper 70s to low 100s.
4th photo looks like you’ve witching for water.
The puddles are gorgeous.
5th and 6th ones! Wow, what color.
The bark rash lichen ( the one that looks like a wound ) is one of my new favorite ones. Ties into my love for gore xd. The other species was really orange looking. Some kind of shelf mushroom. I’m not sure if it’s a different species from what I’m use to or if it’s a much more pigmented version of the yellowish ones I typically see. I wonder if the bright red and orange colors of all of the clay helped it.
I really enjoyed the mud puddles. As a little kid I stained a lot of my clothes playing in them lol. Lots of clay down here. Even more a few hours north but still tons of it here. Use to be this spot with sink holes and like 2 feet of clay mud when it rained.
Yesterday we got almost five inches of rain nearly biblical standards for our area. This grainy picture is from a video I shot of the creek on our northern border.
This picture popped on Fakebook from one year ago on a much sunnier, drier day.
So while hiking today came across this obviously starving Carpenter Bee. Carried it around for an hour trying to find some good flowers for it. Could not find any.
It was on a dead goldenrod and I noticed it would try to stick out its tongue a few times. Brought it back to my house for some good strawberry sugar juice for it. It’s doing much better.
How could you tell it was starving, besides the obvious lack of food in the area?
Ours are all dormant this time of year. There’s no way they could survive the cold and complete lack of food.
Well many of ours are dormant at this time of the year too but not all of them by any means. The cold front that came through making it super cold , far colder than normal, killed off a lot of plants coupled with a recent burning in that spot really helped wiped out a lot of flowers. I’ve seen several dead birds and insects all over. But it had also landed in the flowers of the goldenrod near a spot where a red leaf had fallen. I’m thinking it went to the leaf thinking it was a flower already starving and just exhausted itself. I watched for about ten minutes and noticed its tongue the proboscis came out a few times. So I assumed its weakened appearance and movement was due to energy deficiency.
As soon as I brought it back home and smashed up some strawberries and added some water and sugar it immediately begin eating and after a few moments movicng around a lot more. When I would pet it, it begin to try to fight me off by kicking at me. So it was just far more active.
Wow! That would be something to see! I’m trying to imagine a bee kicking. Cool!
It’s not super crazy. If you google “ bumblebee wave “ that’s all it is.
I found this:
Now I can hardly wait for summer! (Well, that’s not true. I hate hot weather. But I really like bees.)
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