Up!

Up in the sky.

Look Up!

Upside down!

Upside down Scooter.

Upside down Renner.

Bonnie the ‘U’ shaped hound.

This week’s ABC Wednesday letter is ‘U’. For more ‘U’s check out the ABC Wednesday site!

An Amazing Morning

I was excited to see the big guy land and hang around as long as he did. He is a Pileated Woodpecker and though we see them in the area from time to time, usually their stay is too fleeting to catch with my camera.

This morning the camera was at hand and he stuck around long enough for me to get a few shots through the window.

He was not interested in drilling holes in this tree but wanted to drink from a fountain in our yard. The fountain runs all year, though it does freeze in the winter there is always a trickle running no matter the temperature for the winter birds to drink from.

Another very nice happening this morning was seeing the old (though not all that old) and the new coming together.

Yes, they are becoming friends quite quickly. It was good to see Fidget and Lemme sleeping together. It was the first time and at first I thought they were in a rowel again, but then noticed no one was moving and they’d fallen asleep together.

The camera woke Lemme up and he changed positions, but didn’t venture off from his new buddy, Fidget.

Right now, as I am writing, Lemme has spread himself across my arms and Fidget is fast approaching, probably looking for his new brother.

The bliss of harmony at last. It is that time of year isn’t it? Peace on Earth and goodwill to all.

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Peek-A-Boo

A Little Lapis Lazuli!

Bright Blue is the order of the day for True Colors Thursday! And here we see a little construction being done in a Bright Blue sandbox while wearing a Bright Blue shirt…playing with a Bright Blue hippo-sand scooper. (whew…)

Here is an Bright Blue Indigo Bunting sitting at the old birdfeeder. (ahhh missing summer already)

Beautiful Bright Blue prairie sky on a mid-summer day. Lac Qui Parle State Park, MN.

Lac Qui Parle State Park, MN

Brilliant Bright Blue sky of autumn.

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The Patient Greyhound and Friend

A young cardinal has found a very patient friend who allows him a resting place by the little pond in our backyard. In the background you can see that fallen leaves are now the major landscape surrounding our home. Yesterday most of them were raked up (for the third time as oaks are a bit slow in losing their leaves) however, leaves are left in the wild areas of our property.

Ever faithful this greyhound provides a resting place to any and all creatures who are in need regardless of even the harshest weather conditions.

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Happy Halloween!

Leaves and a Little Help

Art work by Kim Parkhurst.

First, I wish everyone a safe and fun Halloween weekend!

Now on to ‘Leaves and a Little Help’.

Dog turn out area changed practically over night from green to leaf dropping brown.

We have been having some very windy, rainy days lately which aids in Fall leaves falling. I love Fall, it is my favorite season. I think it rates high in my book due to the beautiful colors of the leaves as they paint the bright blue autumn sky and the crisp air, no longer hot and humid, but not yet cold enough to freeze your breath mid-air.

However, the beauty ends when, over a course of a day or two, the wind and rain undresses the trees and adorns the ground with a few inches of raking material.  We have quite a bit of land to cover around the house and I don’t particularly like to rake, especially on a windy day.

Deer graze just outside our fence.

The local wildlife seem pretty happy with things even though the garden is in miserable shape now covered in leaves and taken down by evening frosts.

Of course that is outside and though it is a gray and rainy day outside there is a lot going on inside.

Fidget is very busy doing what Fidget does….

I’ll let you figure this one out for yourself.

 Photo of Scooter using my ‘Fidget’ editing tool.

Fidget can be very useful, as you can see. He did allow a few more photos of Greyhounds. So I will let him choose which ones to show you next.

Scooter

Renner

Fidget seems to favor the ‘predator lurking on prey’ mode where his victims are clueless to his presence.

Scooter doesn’t care and continues to do what Scooter does best.

Renner just does not want to be a part of Fidget’s antics and is pretty good at hiding ‘in plain sight’.

So now with all the camera work said and done I begin to get to work on other things.

Of course Fidget is no slacker, he is there to help out.

 

 

It is tiring though.

Are we done yet?

 

Then of course…

   Fidget is also big on Quality Control.

A Bear and His Friend

 

Quenching his thirst in a pond he is face to face.

 

So what is this big guy looking at now?

 

He was checking out his friend in the pond.

These photos were taken through a smeary sheet of protection, I’m not that brave!

Hop on over to James’s place ‘Weekend Reflections’ to see reflections from around the world.

Scarecrow

Though it was cold we ventured out to see Scarecrow Alley at the Minnesota Zoo and found many different animal themed scarecrows. However, I couldn’t really figure out which animal this was supposed to be.

Profile of a Tiger

I do know a Tiger when I see one though!

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Lac Qui Parle

ABC Wednesday is ‘L’. AND

These are scenes from Lac Qui Parle State Park, Minnesota.

Landscape, meadows early afternoon.

Large Lake with Large Boulders

Lavender wild flowers.

Little critter (gopher) Lugging bedding to the nest.

Little boy and a Lake, a great match.

Little boy Licking a Lavender Lolly pop.

Want some?

Lounging, Lazy Greyhounds.

Losing the Light…sunset.