I’ve got money to give anyone who can guess what this mystery photo is:
It is not related to a family of bats we found by our front door:
My drone got homesick, tried to fly back to China and got stuck in this tree. Can you spot it?
Click for a bigger view. Upper middle. I used it as an excuse to buy some new toys and after a couple of weeks finally got it back!
We hosted some dinners and had some good visits with guests:
I hacked our HVAC venting to mix our up and down air better:
Doggies have a daily hunt for the elusive chipmunk:
Occasionally they corner one, but they have un-penetrable defenses:
Helen continues to populate the forest with “Tchotchkes”
And the forest continues to provide it’s own surprises:
It even gave us an octopus:
(or maybe it was just a decomposing tulip flower)
The best forest surprise this month was a beehive in a cliff tree trunk. I flew the drone up for a visit:
The last forest discovery is what gave us that mystery photo. It is one of the bumps on the most gnarly tree trunk in the history of our backyard:
Not sure why the tree trunk does this. I’m sure mother nature knows why, but she has not told me yet.
Bruce
Hmm is anyone else having problems with the pictures on this
blog loading? I’m trying to determine if its a problem on my end or if it’s the blog.
Any responses would be greatly appreciated.