Tag: Cottonwoods

The Other Side

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Dawn

Dawn at Beaver Point

The river dropped enough that I could wade across the shallow rapids just north of 4th of July Point onto the east side of the river.

A beaver crawled into the shallow rapids soon after I crossed, then disappeared under the water as a coyote watched.

Coyote was checking out something in the grass under the jetties.

View from the east side of the river looking south and west at 4th of July Point.

Wildflowers

The west bank of the river

Drift wood and wildflowers at sunrise

Another view of the west bank of the river

Looking at the South Beach from the east side of the river

North side of the shallow rapids where I waded back to the west side of the river.

The island between the shallow rapids

The jetty sculpture garden at the south end of South Beach.

Back on the west side of the river, looking northeast at the other side of the river I had been walking on.

Looking northeast from 4th of July Point.

Map of my long walk on the riverbed

Clouds rolled in when I got back home.

Spunk

Sunset

Dragon at dusk

Do You See What I see

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Sunrise

The persistence of pareidolia. Left to right: Wolf’s head. Three faces above the wolf’s head. Head and shoulders of a bear lying on its back. Kitty in the sky. A person looking down on from the top. A long-eared hound running over a fox that’s lying on its back over Resa’s Wolf Tree, and a pig in the lower right (see my key at the end of the post).

Spunk watching Sasha

Spunk mad dogging Sasha

Sunset

Here’s what I saw.

Dainty Dawn

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Dainty Dawn, what’s the color you have on?

A killer whale cloud over Resa’s Wolf Tree.

Clouds barring sunset

Wild clouds that were supposed to rain. No rain.

Post sunset color

Dusk

Between A Rock And A Hard Cat

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Blue Moon at dawn

Sunrise

While I was standing in the river shooting the sunrise, Jaws started swimming towards me. 

Harry, the Hairy Woodpecker, pecking on a cottonwood

Mama Owl at sunrise

Spunk noticed there was a lot of orange in the floral arrangement and added his tail.

“Ahem! Pesky Paparazzo, cheez is also orange!”

“That’s more like it!”

Norte Pond has become Notre trou de boue

Neil Diamond produces a cracklin’ rose

Sunset

Spunk’s tail between a rock and a hard cat.

Post sunset colors

Silver

Daddy Owl at dusk

Dusk

With A Little Help From His Friends

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Sasha trying to wake up at dawn

Mama Owl was giving me the tail while feeding The Lone Owlet this morning.

Jetties in the glow of the almost rising sun

A dragon over Resa’s Wolf Tree

Spunk and Jake

Snapping turtle on the irrigation ditch bank

When Jake and I went out for our afternoon walk, my neighbor, Sara, and a cyclist were pondering the snapping turtle on the irrigation ditch bank, headed away from the Clearwater ditch and river. Sara got an old horse feed bag, we got the snapping turtle in the sack, and I carried him to the river. 

He was looking very dry, but still had a lot of snap in him.

He was still upset over being bagged and carried to the river, so he gave me a menacing look.

Sunset

After he got into the river, he stretched out and soaked under sunset clouds.

Jake watching the turtle soak in the shallows.

The turtles view of the sunset

Spunk

Turtle Tuesday

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Cloudy Dawn

We got half an inch of rain yesterday and another quarter inch of rain this afternoon.

Mudback of Notre Pond enjoying the rise in the pond water from the rain.

Why did the turtle cross the levee?

This morning’s Spunk Art: “Tail In A Box!”

Turkey Vultures

I think the rain washed a lot of the fuzz off of the Lone Owlet.

Sunset after the rain