Should have it done as a Christmas present for my Grandkids to have fun on.
Oh....and for my kids to have fun with too !
Have had many Hawks, Squirrels, Snakes, a ferret or two, an otter, possums, raccons and a few owls out back, but they're quicker than I am when I try and grab the camera. Damned if I can figure out how most of the "Non-Flyers" get in my backyard though.
No backyard where I am, unless everything surrounding my apartment building could be considered backyard. In Toronto, I had a swimming pool in my backyard, and in Spring and Autumn a pair of ducks spent a day on it in their migration both ways. However, most of my photos, being pre-digital, are back in storage there.
I would have had a huge back yard with lots of wildlife had I been smart and bought this farm for $15,000 back in the 1970s - 300 acres, consisting of a 35 acre wholly contained spring-fed clean lake, 65 acres cleared, the rest forest, and a tight little farmhouse set far back from the rural gravel road in a remote Ontario location. My life would have been very different if I had.
My backyard is in the city of Philadelphia which fortunately has preserved many square miles of forests and waterways. Philly has the largest wild population of white-tailed deer of any urban area in the world! And my backyard is right at the edge of one of those forested areas.
I think thats what your question was asking about? Or were you asking whether the shot was taken in the Poconos or in Philly?
If you recall, my grandmother lived only a few blocks from your Philly home in Pennypack park watershed on Decatur, and i'm also a frequenter of the Pocono's near you such as Robinhood Lakes, Towamincin Trails, Jonas, Indian Mtn Lakes, Jim Thorpe, Boulder Field, etc
Probably. There are a few neighbors who take their boats out to fish quite often. Not sure what they catch but they do catch! We were told by the neighbors when we moved here that it is a spring fed lake.
Very cool. In the spring I had a mama with two fawns barely bigger than a medium sized dog hanging around my backyard, (eating the leaves off my plum tree!!!!). Also saw a bobcat right outside my window 3 weeks ago. Was just sitting here at my desk and through the blinds I saw something moving and I assumed it was one of my cats, then...it dawned on me that it was too big. So I got up and looked out the side window and he was right on the other side of the glass looking at me. I reached for my phone and when I looked back? Gone.
A few of my backyard. Didn't take time to crop or any of that stuff. Still a little ways to go as far as clean up goes, maybe tomorrow.
In any case, my back yard extends 550 feet from the back of my house and beyond that is 2500 acres of forest. So, yea, I live in a forest. Very secluded, rush hour is two cars going by the house in 1 hour. Quiet out here, I love it.
The one above...that's a dead maple, been working on cutting it down but it's EXTREMELY dry, so cutting it down is a little risky because the limbs up top tend to shatter as it falls.
Picture above. ATTN: Sandy...
Just left of center there is a stand of small skinny maples, just to the right of those, there is a trail I put in last year with an excavator. It goes about 200 feet down into the brush. At the end of that was where I cut the tree down, (~140 foot fir, for firewood), then I had to cut it up, and hand carry every bloody piece all the way up to the house. It doesn't show much in the picture, but from about the center of the picture to the left it drops off dramatically.
The one above. Trying to fill in the gap with soil, but I ran out of road so I will have to finish it in the spring. It's mostly clay up here so I can't drive on the lawn to get back to where I need the soil. The soil is up against a 6x6 timber, one of 60, on the other side it drops off 10 feet. It's a retaining wall, what a massive pain in the ass that was to build. Took this picture today, (11/7/19) at 4:23pm. Love this time of year, but it gets dark really early. This is looking at my neighbors house that's about 250 yards through the trees.
Same picture, slightly different angle. To give it some scale. That old dead maple is 110 feet from the camera. The fir tree right behind it is ~110 feet tall. In the foreground is my burn pit.. Still some scraps and brush to get rid of.
Last one. My new hot tub. Not a great picture. It's on the deck I just got done building, which is 18'x9'. The tub itself is 300 pounds, getting it up onto the deck which is 36 inches high was.....not fun. I didn't think I would need the step that comes with it, and I was being cheap, but...I needed the step. The sides of the tub are fairly high and I got tired of racking my yam sack on the sides.. I borrowed the neighbors stair step exercise thingy to get in and out until the step that's made for the tub to gets here.
Most of these pictures were taken from the hot tub.
Yeah...bears. I have no back yard for wildlife, so I went to THEIR back yard. I took this photo at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan Province, China. I call this guy FDR.
I don't have a backyard where I live now, but, before I moved here 5 years ago I had one.
One afternoon while I was sitting out on the patio I happened to look up in the nearby palm tree and noticed an odd looking bird sitting on a branch. I had never seen a bird like that before and didn't know what it was. It didn't seem to be afraid, didn't fly away when I walked closer to the tree to get a better look, and was still there when I woke up the next morning. So I got my camera and took some pictures. The next morning it was gone. I posted the pictures at the time and Mac told me it was a Juvenile Night Heron.
I was surprised to learn what it was, as there was no nearby lake, river or other body of water that such a bird might be attracted to. And that it was so blasé and fearless as I talked to it while i walked around and took pictures also seemed odd for a bird.
Perhaps the story of that bird is that due to some misfortune it was raised by humans. When birds are raised by humans they could be more comfortable, less frightened by their presence. That could also explain its distance from water. Have you ever watched the movie "Fly Away Home"?
What's in your backyard?
Fun Work !
Should have it done as a Christmas present for my Grandkids to have fun on.
Oh....and for my kids to have fun with too !
Have had many Hawks, Squirrels, Snakes, a ferret or two, an otter, possums, raccons and a few owls out back, but they're quicker than I am when I try and grab the camera. Damned if I can figure out how most of the "Non-Flyers" get in my backyard though.
No backyard where I am, unless everything surrounding my apartment building could be considered backyard. In Toronto, I had a swimming pool in my backyard, and in Spring and Autumn a pair of ducks spent a day on it in their migration both ways. However, most of my photos, being pre-digital, are back in storage there.
I would have had a huge back yard with lots of wildlife had I been smart and bought this farm for $15,000 back in the 1970s - 300 acres, consisting of a 35 acre wholly contained spring-fed clean lake, 65 acres cleared, the rest forest, and a tight little farmhouse set far back from the rural gravel road in a remote Ontario location. My life would have been very different if I had.
Mac, both the Fox and the Deer are truly beautiful and realistic in color and image. Very impressive indeed.
Let's come up with quotations from movies for A'Mac's photo of a buck. My suggestion is:
"Here's lookin' at YOU, kid." (Casablanca)
Which backyard of yours were shots taken from, North or South ?
My backyard is in the city of Philadelphia which fortunately has preserved many square miles of forests and waterways. Philly has the largest wild population of white-tailed deer of any urban area in the world! And my backyard is right at the edge of one of those forested areas.
I think thats what your question was asking about? Or were you asking whether the shot was taken in the Poconos or in Philly?
The Pocono Philly question was mine.
If you recall, my grandmother lived only a few blocks from your Philly home in Pennypack park watershed on Decatur, and i'm also a frequenter of the Pocono's near you such as Robinhood Lakes, Towamincin Trails, Jonas, Indian Mtn Lakes, Jim Thorpe, Boulder Field, etc
Peace!!
Peace in a backyard is as good as anything that could be in a backyard!
I have to agree!
The evening view is even more peaceful.
So it is, and slightly different as well.
Do I see bass in pond?
Probably. There are a few neighbors who take their boats out to fish quite often. Not sure what they catch but they do catch! We were told by the neighbors when we moved here that it is a spring fed lake.
What area/state is that JaneDoe?
From the palm tree it would have to be a southern or west coast area.
Yes, we retired our snow shovels last winter and headed down south!
Welcome to the land of ''no snow''...
Where’s my fly rod and bass poppers?
You're lucky to have such a beautiful and peaceful view.
Yes we are. We spend a lot of our time out there. Nature is beautiful!
Hi, my name is Carmella. I spend some time in Kavika's back yard but if you want I can visit you.
These folks come out in the early evening.
Wife calls them and has a few apples and carrots she tosses out a couple times a week.
Very cool. In the spring I had a mama with two fawns barely bigger than a medium sized dog hanging around my backyard, (eating the leaves off my plum tree!!!!). Also saw a bobcat right outside my window 3 weeks ago. Was just sitting here at my desk and through the blinds I saw something moving and I assumed it was one of my cats, then...it dawned on me that it was too big. So I got up and looked out the side window and he was right on the other side of the glass looking at me. I reached for my phone and when I looked back? Gone.
Hoping everyone has a great weekend....
I love that picture.
No less beautiful than the first time I saw it.
Thank you so much MrFrost and Buzz. I am glad that you like it.
A few of my backyard. Didn't take time to crop or any of that stuff. Still a little ways to go as far as clean up goes, maybe tomorrow.
In any case, my back yard extends 550 feet from the back of my house and beyond that is 2500 acres of forest. So, yea, I live in a forest. Very secluded, rush hour is two cars going by the house in 1 hour. Quiet out here, I love it.
The one above...that's a dead maple, been working on cutting it down but it's EXTREMELY dry, so cutting it down is a little risky because the limbs up top tend to shatter as it falls.
Picture above. ATTN: Sandy...
Just left of center there is a stand of small skinny maples, just to the right of those, there is a trail I put in last year with an excavator. It goes about 200 feet down into the brush. At the end of that was where I cut the tree down, (~140 foot fir, for firewood), then I had to cut it up, and hand carry every bloody piece all the way up to the house. It doesn't show much in the picture, but from about the center of the picture to the left it drops off dramatically.
The one above. Trying to fill in the gap with soil, but I ran out of road so I will have to finish it in the spring. It's mostly clay up here so I can't drive on the lawn to get back to where I need the soil. The soil is up against a 6x6 timber, one of 60, on the other side it drops off 10 feet. It's a retaining wall, what a massive pain in the ass that was to build. Took this picture today, (11/7/19) at 4:23pm. Love this time of year, but it gets dark really early. This is looking at my neighbors house that's about 250 yards through the trees.
Same picture, slightly different angle. To give it some scale. That old dead maple is 110 feet from the camera. The fir tree right behind it is ~110 feet tall. In the foreground is my burn pit.. Still some scraps and brush to get rid of.
Last one. My new hot tub. Not a great picture. It's on the deck I just got done building, which is 18'x9'. The tub itself is 300 pounds, getting it up onto the deck which is 36 inches high was.....not fun. I didn't think I would need the step that comes with it, and I was being cheap, but...I needed the step. The sides of the tub are fairly high and I got tired of racking my yam sack on the sides.. I borrowed the neighbors stair step exercise thingy to get in and out until the step that's made for the tub to gets here.
Most of these pictures were taken from the hot tub.
Anyway, that's my backyard.
What kind of wildlife and birds do you see there in your woods?
Bobcats, black bear, coyote, mountain lion, deer and an elk or two.
That's quite a menagerie - almost like a trip to the zoo.
It is indeed. I have seen each one of those listed at least once.. Bear, twice. They are pretty skittish.
Yeah … bears.
© A. Mac/A.G.
Yeah...bears. I have no back yard for wildlife, so I went to THEIR back yard. I took this photo at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan Province, China. I call this guy FDR.
Panera Bred ?
??? I don't know what that means.
I think the Paniera bred reference is a pun on “breeding” ... it’s a coffee shop type eatery in the U.S. .
AMac does, and did explain and simple, a stupid play on words, that which i attempt on o k assion
I'm not familiar with those eateries, and I know that bread in French is "pain", so it was kind of hard for me to know what he meant.
Paniera 🥯 BREAD
Oh, maybe that's "bread" in Spanish. In Canada we study French, not Spanish.
Pretty close.
In 1987, Ken and Linda Rosenthal founded The St. Louis Bread Company with the first location in Kirkwood, Missouri. The Rosenthals invested $150,000 and received a $150,000 Small Business Administration loan.[11] In 1993, Au Bon Pain Co., a public company, purchased the St. Louis Bread Company for $23 million.[12][13][14] In 1997, Au Bon Pain changed the company name to Panera, from the Spanish language word panera, meaning "granary" or "breadbasket".[14] At the same time, the St. Louis Bread Company renovated its 20 bakery-cafés in the St. Louis area.[8][14]
Thanks, Sandy.
I don't have a backyard where I live now, but, before I moved here 5 years ago I had one.
One afternoon while I was sitting out on the patio I happened to look up in the nearby palm tree and noticed an odd looking bird sitting on a branch. I had never seen a bird like that before and didn't know what it was. It didn't seem to be afraid, didn't fly away when I walked closer to the tree to get a better look, and was still there when I woke up the next morning. So I got my camera and took some pictures. The next morning it was gone. I posted the pictures at the time and Mac told me it was a Juvenile Night Heron.
I was surprised to learn what it was, as there was no nearby lake, river or other body of water that such a bird might be attracted to. And that it was so blasé and fearless as I talked to it while i walked around and took pictures also seemed odd for a bird.
Perhaps the story of that bird is that due to some misfortune it was raised by humans. When birds are raised by humans they could be more comfortable, less frightened by their presence. That could also explain its distance from water. Have you ever watched the movie "Fly Away Home"?
No I have never seen that movie. However, your suggestion that it was raised by humans does make sense.
I love seeing all the pictures. We've recently moved to Washington, and my husband took this picture from our front porch back in August.
I wanted to come up with one word to describe how that photo struck me, and it was "regal". (rhymes with Eagle).