Before still more

Even though I try to space things out a little, I really have to post these images before I get even more and produce a backlog…

We find it amusing that the juvie barred owls (Strix varia) are semi-routinely visiting the backyard, which we really only know because they still talk a lot, especially the one that we have now taken to calling, “Crybaby.” Two nights ago, I tracked read more

Scaring October off

I’m later than normal, but it’s still the end of the month, so we can still have the end-of-month abstract. And I even have a couple of specific attempts, all from yesterday when I had a few minutes. Let’s see here, we have:


I believe I mentioned, but Walkabout Estates Plus has a bunch of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees, right in the back forty, read more

Because I’m me

I actually took all of these photos before I shot the fossil rock for the previous post, but I intentionally posted them in this order to break things up a bit. It probably doesn’t help, but I get credit for the effort, right?

After the heavy rains Monday night and Tuesday morning, I went out to do a walk-through of the yard, and one of the first things I noticed was what you see here, a leaf read more