Showing posts with label outdoors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outdoors. Show all posts

baby squirrel

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I couldn't resist sharing this baby squirrel from a local fish hatchery... it was initially on the ground foraging when we came in to see the fish. I wasn't able to get a picture of him then but... on our way out we managed to see him again. This time I had the camera on the ready and handed it to my husband who then snapped this adorable shot. Isn't he a cutie?

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Saturday Critters


peonies

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Sunday before last I went for a walk around my neighborhood and snapped several shots of these peonies. When I returned home I decided to grunge them up a bit... this was my end result. Hope everyone has a great weekend~

Good Fences

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The smell of honeysuckle was prominent along this good fence (in front of my house) last week. I don't know what this white flower is but it was flowering alongside the honeysuckle, its blossoms smelled just as sweet. If anyone can identify this flower please leave its name in the comments below.

Red winged blackbird

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This red winged blackbird was gracious enough to pose on a small cattail at our local nature preserve. I think he was flirting with the lady red wing flying around the pond's edge.

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Praying Mantis

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A praying mantis hangs upside down at the rim of a mason jar waiting with genuflected front legs to be released into a chilly summer night. Night air scuds across his tiny, triangular face as he allows one leg and another to grab hold of the fishlike bark in front of him. He crawls slowly across its back to the tip exiting in front of our house.

From the west side of our back porch there's a grand daddy long legs careering forward with stealth and stalk. He's hungry. Moving a bit faster along a single plank he closes distance between him and the praying mantis. He miscalculates his prey when a sudden pounce is thrust upon the long legs' tick sized body.


Beneath a single porch light I became a voyeur watching death and survival take place instantly. My heart ached for long legs' cruel death though I found it exciting the praying mantis would live to see another day wake.

feelin' squirrelly

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two squirrels playing
at nature preserve last night
a game of hopscotch.



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