Sun hides behind trees
Beaver slips underwater
Cotton falls like snow
I bothered a beaver who was feeding on the opposite bank of the Rio Grande.
Cotton blowing off of Resa’s Tree.
Abstract / Animals / beavers / Clouds / Corrales / Cottonwoods / Poetry / Rio Grande / Sunset / Trees
Cotton Falls Like Snow
Off Center & Not Even 
Nice sky photo. And “snow”.
Thanks, Brad.
Love the sky shot. And the beavers. Better than crocs 😂
I almost stepped on a beaver yesterday. It dived in the river in the nick of time. Thanks, Miriam.
Better than nearly stepping on a crocodile!
Absolutely.
Lovely words and images. I do love the cotton falls like snow line especially.
Thanks, Shay.
I feel like it’s time to listen to the AWB’s Beaver song again… 🙂
I should repost it. But the conservancy has been leaving their dams, so they are not quite as angry. Thanks, Herman.
I love that first one!
Thanks, Liz.
You’re welcome, Tim.
That first shot is a wowzer, Tim!
Beaver takes cover from the cotton snow.
It’s the only annoying thing about cotton trees!
Like summer snow storms. Thanks, Marina.
🙏👌
Yes, it’s that time of the year again. Lovely haiku which could stand alone, even without the outstanding photos.
A loneku. Thanks, Mary Jo.
Lovely TimKu!
Looks like a good cotton crop this year.
Are there seeds in the cotton?
My tree is a lot like me. I better go sweep the kitchen floor! xx
Thanks, Resa. Lots of cotton this year.
Wow, amazing. It totally looks like snow! great shots
Thanks, Sylvia.
A beautiful gift of sunlight behind that tree. That is a very restful, peaceful image.
It was good to see “Bite ‘Em On The Old Shin Bone” beaver again. Our cottonwood snowfall was a couple of weeks ago up here. The air was full of drifting seed in some areas.
Our cottonwood snowfall are always this time of year peaking around the 4th of July making fire danger high. Thanks, Lavinia.
Wow, that looks exactly like a snow making prop I saw at the haunters convention we went to last night. Apparently I can save some bucks and just plant a tree.
The problem is the cotton and haunting season don’t coincide. Thanks, Brian.
Lovely.
And how dare you disturb the little fellow!
We have cotton fluffs from the poplar trees flying like snow here. Ugh…
I didn’t know cotton grew on a tree I thought it was on a short shrub. Fantastic picture.
A different kind of cotton. You can’t make textiles out of cottonwood cotton. Thanks, Charlotte.
Ah I’m glad you told me 🙃 its still a fantastic photo.
We have cotton in and on everything this time of year. Thanks again, Charlotte.
I bet do the birds line their nests with it?
They just might.
Charlotte, answering a question for Resa about hummingbird nests, I remembered a series I did of hummingbird chicks growing up in 2017. You asked if birds used cotton to line their nests. The nest in the series from 2017 was built out of cotton: https://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2017/7/paparazzo-chicks
Amazing, like a nice downy quilt for them, a tiny nest as they got bigger, Mumma didn’t want to make things too comfy they didn’t want to leave 😂.
They grew up quickly and, like many kids, didn’t want to leave home. What surprises me now that I think back on it is that the mamma hummingbird never threatened me when I was photographing her little ones. I posted a photo of a hummingbird on Thursday that was getting in my face and threatening me. And I didn’t see her nest. I’m assuming she has a nest the way she was being so aggressive toward me.
That’s very interesting, did you have glasses on or something reflective the second time?
I wear glasses, but normally when hummingbirds see their reflections in my camera lenses, they move just out of view. It’s very frustrating. They seem to know it’s their own reflections. Hummingbirds are extremely aggressive and territorial little birds. They attack and chase birds that are much bigger than they are. I once saw a hummingbird chase a Robin into a bush. The hummingbird perched outside the bush until the Robin flew out and resumed chasing and attaching it. The Hummingbird on Thursday dive-bombed me and buzzed me, hovered in my face and perched very close to me keeping an eye on me until I walked away. The same hummingbird attacked Laurie when she was near the peach tree looking at roses.
I don’t think we have them in the UK so I do like seeing photographs of hummingbirds. My mum has a robin that lives permanently near her garden and lots of blue tits. The bigger birds I’m not so keen on blackbirds, magpies, or pigeons.
Hummingbirds are not found in the UK or anywhere in Europe. We have a nice variety of tits here, but tits are mostly referred to as Chickadees in the USA.