Your photography just keeps getting more sublimely beautiful even in your otter capture. Bravo.
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I drive by this farm most Fridays on the way to one of our rural elementary schools.
I finally stopped yesterday and snapped a few photos.
Bison are not native to Michigan, but lots of places around us. We don’t have lots of grasslands for them, more forests. And lakes. I don’t know what kind of swimmers they are. But they do fine in our climate on farms. They are raised for meat, which is good but very lean and requires TLC in cooking or will be very dry or shoe-like.
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Some hoarfrost along a swamp walk this morning; a winter -bare tree stretching into the overcast sky.
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Great pics. I was looking to see what part of the sky you were looking at and finally saw Orion.
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It’s confusing–@skovandofmitaze made those top 3. I agree-they are stunning!
Ha, I had totally merged them before my comments. Love your’s also, especially the path in the woods and the frost. We had a cold spell before Christmas, but it has been unseasonably warm since. Some 80’s, though the high today is in the 70’s.
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I think it’s the coastal goldenrod.
Underwater footprints of a raccoon I think.
Tiny green magnolia jumping spider. Also found out that the “ green lynx spider “ a different species that I’ve posted a few times, can spit venom that can make you temporarily go blind for several minutes.’
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Slimy slug I found.
Little branch ( I’m not sure of the correct term for it. The watery path. )
My wasp hive thing is slowly going to become a pushpin home for feathers I find while hiking.
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Crick?
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Hey, that’s West Michiganese, too! My aunts will say something like, I’m going to warsh my cloze in the crick, after I fix the roof (Michigan pronunciation is a short “oo” sound, like “took,” I’ve been told)
20 Slang Terms And Pronunciations You’ll Hear Michiganders Say (theodysseyonline.com)
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“Warsh” and “crick” came from the south with movements like the Great Migration in the early 1920s. But things like that stay and spread. “Pop” seems to be dying out here; so we sacrifice our own regionalisms, too, for the sake of striving for status.
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I did not know that. That is very interesting! Thanks. None of my family are from the South, but as many others here did come from there to work in the factories, I am sure we picked that up.
Some here speak with a remnant of Dutch word syntax, I think…so they say they go “by” somewhere, instead of “to” the place (German, too, I think). But I would really enjoy learning more. Thanks.
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“Pop” is alive and well in the Great White North (above the 49th parallel)…Soda is just the carbonated water one puts into an alcoholic drink. And its Creek (rhymes with creak) not Crick 
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Yep. We hear a few non-english uses of prepositions in this part of the state, too, where the previous generation still spoke German.
“To” is often used rather than “at”. This is an entirely German thing.
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What a relief! I have greater admiration for my northern neighbors all the time!
Crick came up to MI with my grandparents’ generation from Arkansas, Georgia and the like. Families without southern relatives seem unaware of the variation.
I love regionalisms.
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I would call it a branch, or a brook. Cricks (creeks) are bigger. One site I looked at said,” Some people say: you can step over a brook , jump over a creek , wade across a stream , and swim across a river .”
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Hm I like that! But I kind of wonder if a “crick” is narrower than a “creek” (just kidding).
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