nature

September 18th

I looked out my window this morning and I noticed The turtle lineup on the far side of the lake. As you can see the water is very low and it exposed this concrete buttress where street storm sewers enter the lake. Perfect for turtle warming in the morning. So I grabbed my Sony and slapped on the tele lens. The ducks showed up a bit later just as the turtle party was breaking up....

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Visit The Morning

This is a nice morning for an August (12) day in Texas. It is in the high 70’s which is cool this time of year and it is wonderful to sit out on the back porch viewing our small lake. The three remaining Russian geese are sleeping a few meters away. (I choose metric because if I said yards I’d have to explain the 3 foot kind.) I see I did that anyway. Ha! The...

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Barking Up The Wrong Tree

If you think Nutria or AKA Coypu are kind big friendly over grown rats, well scratch kind and friendly. They are pests and highly destructive. Here is what one does when it moves into YOUR neighbourhood and mine. This is in Frisco, Texas.  It’s not a matter of  can do… does is the correct action word. You can see he (she?) is big, by how high it can reach to strip bark. This amount of...

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