So this Friday was declared a "cutter's holiday" at 9 AM (IOW we were too far ahead of the sewers and got sent home), and by 10, Misty and I were "on the road"...
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"Hey! Laurie snuck in a bird picture while I wasn't looking!
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So anyway, Kitty sees us off
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Bunny at the end of Groundhog Road
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Misty was glad to be in the shade of the woods
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Nothing shakin' woods or pond
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Crossed south canal just in time for a fight between 2 redwing families. Here's losing Mister...
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By this time, the bright sun had put Misty into "creeper gear" when in shade
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3 Goldies on that skinny branch
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The one squirrel we saw- he seemed a bit staggered by the heat
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Apparently half a watermelon on your car wards off evil spirits lol
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Saturday Morning was much earlier (around 7AM) and much cooler. BTW that reminds me. A couple weeks back, the local DNR told everyone that with the 90 degree temps we had, the ticks would be coming out in earnest. Good advice, except... as soon as we started walking this spring, it was tick-mageddon. You walk through anything more than 4 inches high, you picked ticks all. night. long. Once we had the first big heat wave, we haven't seen a one. Not a one.
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Moon was just getting in from a long night
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We first got in the woods, it seemed it was just us and this verrrry loud bird.
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Fingers of sunshine reaching in
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Only squirrel of the morning- a black one. I think everybody finished last year's nuts and left
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At this point, we've broken yesterday's record for not hearing/seeing a disc golfer. Might we get through the woods without any?
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It did help us meet Mr Barn Owl
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Disc golfers... we were so close!
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Apparently the river stopped off at Marathon on the way in today...
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The two bunnies still hanging out at the corner
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At this point, with nothing better to do, I try snapping the swallows getting their speedy breakfast
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Of course, the one time I got the swallow, I got nothing else
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Well, and this one, kinda
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And the bunnies greeted us coming home
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And at the end, we did see the cat... straggling in under his porch fence like he was just getting in. Him and the moon, lol!
