Trail Maintenance

You may already have noticed that the wildlife pictures are of much better quality.  Clearer without all sorts of clutter.

That's because I've been out the last weekend clearing the trails of all of the tall grass.

Cutting the grass, weeds and willow with a Rhino Bush Hog.  All three and a half miles of trails.

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Hot and dirty work but it will be so much easier to get around once this is finished.

Trail Maintenance

You may already have noticed that the wildlife pictures are of much better quality.  Clearer without all sorts of clutter.

That's because I've been out the last weekend clearing the trails of all of the tall grass.

Cutting the grass, weeds and willow with a Rhino Bush Hog.  All three and a half miles of trails.

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Hot and dirty work but it will be so much easier to get around once this is finished.

Deer Famlies

A deer family consists of a mama deer (a doe) and one of more children (fawns). There is no dad in the picture so these are all single moms.  This is because deer are naturally promiscuous.  It's part of their genetic make-up so forget all of that nonsense about Bambi that Disney productions used to pollute your brain.

A couple of trail camera pics take at two different locations...

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Good Luck Sign

Just received a half-inch of welcome rain.  That's the entire sum of rain for last month.  As evidence of our good fortune this was left in it's wake.  A complete rainbow.

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Stunning...

The Double Entendre

Meaning something that is devised to be understood in one or both of two ways.  A double meaning. More often than not one of the interpretations is rather obvious - whereas the other is more subtle.

I present to you a cactus centerpiece on the dinner table at a get-together last evening...

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Black-eyed Susan

Rudbeckia hirta.  Yup.  Another member of the aster family.  We actually have asters here but they're not blooming yet.  Wait for fall.

Also commonly called the Brown-eyed Susan they are found all over the place.  In the native planting, along the trails and acatter in the more open tree plantations.

The local goldfinches are crazy for the seeds.

And my brown-eyed girls sometimes like to stop and smell the flowers...

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Guess Who?

The deer, it seems, are as common as the milkweed around here.

A couple of does...

And surprise, surprise, a fawn...

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There's probably another fawn that the camera didn't capture on its electronic brain.