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mistressofmuses) wrote2021-10-25 08:30 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2021-10-25 08:30 pm
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"Pelican Pond" (no pelicans)
(Island Territory will get posted tomorrow - I made a cover for it that I'm pretty happy with, but it got a bit late.)
Today we both slept in way later than we usually would. (I did wake up at 4, and went back to sleep around 6, but still.) We had some errands to run, but today was almost 80°, so we definitely wanted to do something outside. We settled on "Pelican Pond", though there weren't any pelicans today.
It was a very nice walk! The weather was beautiful, and the air started off better than it's been for a while. Some new scunge moved in later, but at least during our walk it was nice!
Cy, going for a wade.
We also saw a small group of wood ducks. They're some of my favorites, especially the males with how flashy they are. I'm guessing this was a family group - there was the one male, and one pretty heavily marked female, and the others looked like maybe juvenile females?
Some yucca and some nice bright colors. At least some of the color is from the wild roses, which also had lots of rosehips.
Today there were a bunch of coots out on the lake! Often we may see a couple, but today there were tons scattered all around the reservoir.
Some very nice prickly pear cacti, fruiting.
Nice reflection of the fall colors.
Turtle!
We saw a few others sunning on branches near shore, but they all splooshed down and swam away as soon as we got close. This one was brave enough to come back! The rest just lurked a ways out, drifting around with their heads up like periscopes.
The same turtle, framed by some colorful leaves.
And one more of the wood ducks. :)
Today we both slept in way later than we usually would. (I did wake up at 4, and went back to sleep around 6, but still.) We had some errands to run, but today was almost 80°, so we definitely wanted to do something outside. We settled on "Pelican Pond", though there weren't any pelicans today.
It was a very nice walk! The weather was beautiful, and the air started off better than it's been for a while. Some new scunge moved in later, but at least during our walk it was nice!
Cy, going for a wade.
We also saw a small group of wood ducks. They're some of my favorites, especially the males with how flashy they are. I'm guessing this was a family group - there was the one male, and one pretty heavily marked female, and the others looked like maybe juvenile females?
Some yucca and some nice bright colors. At least some of the color is from the wild roses, which also had lots of rosehips.
Today there were a bunch of coots out on the lake! Often we may see a couple, but today there were tons scattered all around the reservoir.
Some very nice prickly pear cacti, fruiting.
Nice reflection of the fall colors.
Turtle!
We saw a few others sunning on branches near shore, but they all splooshed down and swam away as soon as we got close. This one was brave enough to come back! The rest just lurked a ways out, drifting around with their heads up like periscopes.
The same turtle, framed by some colorful leaves.
And one more of the wood ducks. :)
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That's a very different landscape from anything near here. Not quite desert, but maybe more arid? It's cool to see what fall looks like there.
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It is definitely an interesting area. We mostly fall in the "high altitude desert" category. It's not quite as dry as a typical desert, but definitely pretty arid. A bit east you hit shortgrass prairie, and west you hit coniferous forests in the mountains. Despite having lived here my whole life, it still surprises me every time we find cacti on the forest floor, haha.
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Luckily we have no snow in the forecast for the foreseeable future.
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Ugh, frustrating on the lawn mower. It doesn't surprise me that that's one of the things that the supply chain issues would hit, but ugh, still sucks. I'm glad you can get the part you need, so hopefully you'll get it back to functional.
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