The title will become understandable towards the end, okay?
Day one: Thursday
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Robin footy |
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Some trees finally budding |
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Amazingly enough, he found his way out of this. |
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A dip in the Duck Pond. |
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Take-off |
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To say we have a LOT of turtles this year is accurate. I counted a whopping 14 napping in the swamp. |
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Woody, guardian of the swamp |
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A wood duck and (somewhere) his wife |
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But only the second ground hog I've seen- too far away for Boofus |
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Blue-winged teal at the alumni pond |
Day Two: Saturday
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Finally in full springtime regalia |
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And- unfortunately- soccerista season opens |
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Toby and master. We met up a couple of times. |
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Dude launching a fan boat on the river. |
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Sang us a sweet song as we went by |
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Now the Dutchman's Britches are popping |
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The flowers just seemed so happy to be alive.
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The young Buckeyes are leafing out |
Day Three: Sunday
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I thought this was gonna be a PSA on not leaving your dog unattended, but the owner came out right after the snap from buying a drink inside the Plex. |
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KC Martin, master baiter. |
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"Hey, where's MY pole?" |
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"You mean we just SIT here? This sucks..." |
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Woody, guardian of... oh, never mind. |
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"Help, anybody! They're hanging me!" "Well, you IS a horse thief..." |
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Trying the other side, as the current was bringing the line to shore |
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Yeah, that fishing thing is too much like work. |
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Guess who sat in a big pile of last year's cockleburrs? |
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Our only catch of the day- the elusive stick fish |
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Not only were there a lot of turtles, but frogs were everywhere. They wouldn't even move for us. They were in a sunshine coma. |
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That is one big turtle... |
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This guy actually swam up to this log, climbed up, and just looked at us. Meanwhile, another one jumped up and hit scrappy in the nose. |
"If the NBA was on channel five and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel four, I'd watch the frogs – even if they were coming in fuzzy."- Bobby Knight.
Well, there you go. Two pics of frogs mating, and they're fuzzy, too! If you look close, you can see eggs in pic 2 between the little one's legs.
Where's the mating pictures? I feel gypped!
ReplyDeleteThe last two, Al!!
DeleteLooks like an awesome time!! I need to get the kids out and about also but Lord it seems like we're slammed busy all of t he time. Glad it's warming up though.
ReplyDeleteYou think you're busy now... lol!
DeleteEven funnier: First time typing that, busy came out "busty"...
bwhahah,... doubtful Ill ever be busty, didn't come with the genes... I know, I'm going to be so busy when they're here..
Deletegreat pictures!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteChris:
ReplyDelete---Okay, with all those TURTLE pics (and that HUGE one sunning on that log), you went and made me hungry.
I'm thinking SNAPPER SOUP now!
(pass the sherry)
---Love the "Scrappy" comments.
---And those robins in the FIRST pic look like they're got some kind of medieval dance thing going on.
(maybe a "safety" dance?)
---Frogs doing the swamp-time "mambo"...who knew?
---(Note to KC: AVOID the cockle-burrs!)
---LOL - STICK-FISH.
(bets those BOOT fish ANY day.
Great weekend photos.
Stay safe up there, brother.
As much as my folks loved turtle, I never cared for it overmuch.
DeleteWell, Scrappy is fairly witty...
I HOPE you aren't referencing that Men Without Hats tune, Safety Dance. Gosh I hated that...
Funny: KC wasn't sitting there but a few minutes when he said, "I think I have a thorn in my shorts"... Little did he know.
This is the closest I got to a walk this morning as I have Leo here and can't leave him home alone while I go out although he is still in bed asleep at the moment but still can't leave him alone so no walk for me this morning
ReplyDeleteWell, sorry I couldn't help exercise, but at least you got the view!
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