What's in Your Backyard on Creative Arts Three Day Weekend?
A Young Buck Sporting His Velvety, New Horns; He's got a Twin Brother but I have not yet been able to photograph them in the same frame.
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More back yard critters to come.
Currently, this is my backyard since we are having a bit of a holiday in the Florida Keys and we are staying in Marathon which is a bit over halfway down the Keys. We walked out on the dock when the fishing guide boats came in and the crew of one of the boats was tossing bits of fish and tarpon by the dozen were feeding on it as I leaned over to get a better look under the dock this bad boy popped out around 10 feet from my face...It's a nurse shark around 6 to 7 feet long.
Arvo.. Junior jaws..
Not an aggressive shark and the Keys are loaded with them and Sand Sharks, both are shallow water sharks not aggressive unless provoked.
Got no pictures cause its dark, but it is super hell-a wet in my upstate NY backyard...
So here is Reveena in my back yard enjoying a non wet day
She looks like contentment in spades.
And her sister enjoys bones in the backyard, also. Sometimes, the bones are almost as big as her!
Same here. Some places around here have had 10" of rain.
it's been very wet in colorado too. usually by this time in july everything green has turned brown and we're in the middle of a stretch of 90+ degree days.
Got no back yard, but I've got a front balcony and when I looked out there was an American spy balloon sent to check up on me.
Normally, when I look out from my balcony, this is the usual view:
What looks like a boat up front is the elevated subway station - you can see the tracks on the left leading to it and a train coming in, and behind it is the huge department store / mall . On the left the wooded area is the campus of the Sichuan Art Institute campus.
But when I look more to the right of that there is a community with the mountains in the background.
Yes, that's me taking in the glory and beauty of mother nature. Sunset in Marathon, Florida Keys.
I was waiting for that sunset picture.
Thanks, Thomas.
... at the ready to flash the booze cruisers when they pass by.
Here's the new office tank so far. I'm just using a short floor lamp now with an 8w LED daylight bulb. Got the lamp for $20 on FB Marketplace.
More of a backseat critter, than a back yard one...
Pretty much all I ever see in my back yard are rabbits... lots and lots of rabbits...
Great photos, EG.
The only wildlife I get to see these days are pet dogs and cats, oh, and the odd sparrow. So you're your dog's chauffeur, eh?
Morning Buzz.. that's a given being the dogs chauffeur...
Would rather that, than being a slave to the cat..🙄😺🐾
For example this morning .. the cat hacked up a furball at 4.45am..then another one at 6am..at 6.30am it wanted to go out it's still pitch black at that hour so hold open the door for it and it's 8c....and so for the next 3 hours it scratched the crap out of the cat flap wanting back in..I ignored her.. but there will be pay back!!..😬
Comes in heads straight for the food bowls. Stuffs it's face and lands back on the bed. Sits on me while I am trying to keep it off my stomach which is still tender from the operation last week.. it's now curled up and catching up on its interrupted sleep will I am now facing the day feeling like I have been hit by a road train...the little dear!! 🐾🐾😺
Dog chauffeur everytime!!..
Yes. He loves to go to Dairy Queen where they give him a dallop of soft serve ice cream and milk bone.
From the Backyard --
Rose and Agapantha © G. Gam
I have posted this before --
Backyard, West view © G. Gam
Nice flowers, fantastic sunset.
More "Postcards from Provence"
Statue of Molière in Front of the Opera House, Place de l'Horloge, Avignon © G. Gam
Èze le Village © G. Gam
A Street in Nimes © G. Gam
Maison carrée, Nimes © G. Gam
The Wedding Party, Arles © G. Gam
I really like the B&W narrow street scenes.
Thanks, dev. I do, too. I also posted some last week and I have several more. It's a series I've been working on.
An appropriate collection for Bastille Day.
Hummingbird Nestlings
© A. Mac/A.G.
LOL. Watching for mama to come and feed them.
Red with her new best friend.
Marathon, Florida Keys.
... local fish inhaler.
Catching Fish is Secondary to "Being There"
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And Peter Sellers has nothing to do with how great a photo that is.
Deep in the sawgrass of the Everglades about a 1/2 hour into the glades via airboat. A world of its own.
T he Everglades National Park is the only ecosystem in the world where alligators and crocodiles co-exist side by side. Although alligators only thrive in freshwater because they can't digest salt, crocodiles can live in both fresh and salt water.
The Everglades is the largest remaining subtropical wilderness in the United States. It consists of 1.5 million acres of sawgrass marshes, mangrove forests, and hardwood hammocks dominated by wetlands.
The ''glades'' are home to two Native American tribes, the Seminole and the Miccosukee. Their histories are fascinating and they are descendants of the Lower Creek tribe. We spend time at the Miccosukee village and I had the opportunity to speak to the current leader, a direct descendent of the great leader, Osceola. I told him that I was a direct descendent of the great Anishinaabe Chief, My Dad. It took a second then a smile started to cross his face, then a loud laugh. He told me that he like my humor, and he said he wasn't sure that Indians from the north had a good sense of humor as ''Glade Indians''...LOL...he was happy to see that they did.
We stayed at the Miccosukee Resort on the edge of the Everglades. A really beautiful resort with a really fine dining experience restaurant. I had Atlantic Salmon with a sauce to die for, mashed potatoes, and a salad and Red had Veal Parmigiana with mashed potatoes and a salad. For dessert we had Tiramisu.
Together with the time in Marathon in the Keys and the glades it was a wonderful six days.
You can spend your life in Miami and most of South Florida area and never have to speak English, Spanish is the language of choice and it gave me a chance to sharpen my Spanish.
This is one of my bucket list trips with my camera.
It will be beyond anything that you can imagine, EG.
Spectacular is an understatement.
I'm not a big fan of reptiles, but I've been to key west twice, which was a bit of a freak show. other than the golf courses and the seafood, I can't think of many other attractions I'd really want to see.
I would expect it to be spectacular. I don't know when I've ever get there, but it's on the list.
last time I was there was 20+ years ago, so I'd be looking at it now thru a lot older eyes...
It's been some time since I went to Key West, but I did take in Hemmingway home when I was there, quite interesting. Other than that it's pretty much a tourist trap so I spend my time north around Marathon and other keys.
I rented a cadillac on golf trip vacation and went down to the keys. we stopped for lunch at a restaurant along the way named squid row. I wore the t-shirt out years ago.
I also enjoyed the Hemingway House and the Truman Little White House. My daughter like the butterfly conservatory and I found Dry Tortugas National Park interesting. My father enjoyed Fort Zachary Taylor State Park as a great birding spot in the Springtime.
This is an outstanding example of several species of aquatic flora indigenous to a particular ecosystem - every it as significant not only as a photograph, but as an ecological documentary as well.
The water is 1 to 2 feet and moves at 100 feet every 24 hours and the sawgrass acts as a filter and is critical to the health of the Glades along as food for some species. It really is a fascinating world. I'll be returning later in the year for an all-day guided tour with one of the guides from the Miccosukee tribe. I'm really looking forward to that. We made a deal he'll do an all-day trip in part of the glades that only the tribes ever see and in return I promised him if he ever gets to northern MN I would take him on a guided tour of the Boundry Waters and up into the Angle which only Ojibwe ever see.
I was going to close it down, but, since it seems to be active, so, will do so in the morning.
Thanks to all; see you Thursday night.