Is this the lake near Toronto?
I see you answered my question already! Cool!
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I took these last weekend and had trouble posting them earlier.
Looking down the road from my house
Inspiration for lace and cable knitting
There’s a little swampy area I like to walk to, about 10 minutes from our house. Of course, private property is the most enticing.
Corndogs are a bit overblown.
3 or 5? Best not to trespass on this tree.
Mr. Archer’s barn behind his beatiful maple.
This forsythia is tough.
Definitely 3.
Even the land in my township is beautiful
Some pines by George’s ditch
The Mother Pin Oak in front of the shagbark hickories that live by our ditch.
One of my favorite trees, the common, scrubby sassafras:
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Today while savaging lumber from the demolished shed at the church just down the block (which I can now see from my living room since they knocked down the house that served as church office & library) I kept stopping to look up and watch geese and ducks fly over. The smallest formation I watched had just twenty-eight birds while the largest was somewhere above two hundred, possibly three hundred; altogether I probably saw nearly two thousand geese and one thousand ducks – a small number of ducks compared to what I observed a couple of days ago when I went out to do some conservation work; the entire shoreline of the bay for half a mile was ducks, ducks, ducks, most so close together that a mouse could have traveled across one cover by hopping from one duck to another . . . I estimated the total number along that stretch of shore as upwards of six thousand ducks.
And of course that was just one spot here; many of the dairy farmers’ fields have ponds due to rain that both ducks and geese rest in – and deposit substantial amounts of fertilizer.
All of which leads to an idea of how to measure “too many” would be: when the concentration of bird feces starts to chemically burn the places they come in to to rest. Although at the lake on campus where I was in Indiana another measure might be invoked: when ducks and geese half-covered the lake in the spring we often got aquatic weed blooms that choked out everything lower than six inches under the surface.
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That looks very much like a spot on a sandspit I used to love to hike. The trail there goes around the open area, and one day I figured just going across would save me some time. It turned out that once ten yards away from the trees it was all marsh with gooey mud all the way except for a few hummocks – the mud due to all the leaves that blow out into the open area every fall.
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Hydrangea update from the back yard:
They are still making new blooms.
I love the variety, and how the flowers change throughout the season.
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My wife’s favorite flowers
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This is actually a field of ripe soybeans. They’ll be harvested soon. Corn is still drying. The fields are just beautiful.
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Splendid!
You have a forest in your back yard?!
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This reminds me; I can’t read either of the thermometers on my porch any longer unless I get about six inches away.
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@Klax’s too, I think.
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That first one is especially nice!
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Thanks. Yes, we love it. We live in a block of about 25 acres of woods, near the Manistee National Forest. You have a beautiful place to live, too (it’s amazing, the photos everyone puts up here, from around the world–even the spiders!)
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Really beautiful landscape shot. I enjoy biking as well. Not as much as I use too. I bike now only like 40 miles a week. Several years ago I was biking 100-150 miles a week. But this 31st, like every one for the last 12 years, me and several friends meet up and bike 31 miles on Halloween night circling through several subdivisions with neat decorations and along a few backcountry roads and through a nature park and it ends with hiking a few miles along the gulf coast.
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Potentially Amanita Fulva though it’s currently up within taxonomy on if it’s one, a subspecies or an entirely different species from the species in Europe. It’s actively in debate right now.
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