Photos from my day...

 

 

Making butterflies...

 

This butterfly is fix'in to be lunch...the predator lurks in the lower right corner under the rosemary.

 

 

And Mr Spider missed his lunch but he waits patiently for the next butterfly

 

Raindrops on the butterfly bush bloom

 

The snails were heading for high ground

 

Storm clouds moving in from the East

 

Precious one of two...

 

 

And here is Mom with her twins...

 

 Later this afternoon I captured a buck, doe and fawn in the pasture

 

 

Little one got wet...

 

Moms helping

 

I've been spotted

 

 She found something interesting in the driveway

 

 



Uh Oh...she's spotted the chickens and has already learned how to stomp out an alert!!

 

The chickens like being up high when it's wet out...

 

Spotted this guy a few minutes ago out behind the house eating the cantaloupe I threw out there. They absolutely love cantaloupe and watermelons!

 

Head shot...

 

 

A very wet and rainy day for us.

 

 

 

 

Rain and Stinky...

 

 

We had a few good showers today. Julie wasn't too happy but the rain was very welcome. Total rainfall was 1.4 inches. I've heard of a few places in Texas getting 9 inches or more in the past 72 hours, that would be so nice. I am sure if we got over 9 inches the creek would be flowing again. I'd probably be stuck at the house too as I am sure the driveway would flood too!

 

There are a few wildflowers hanging on...

 

The Zinnia's aren't doing so good but still blooming!

The cattle don't seem to like Zinnias thank goodness!

 

Stinky comes up around the pool every evening looking for grubs. Tonight he or she looked a little wet and miserable.

 

Stinky also needs a pedicure and some meds for his or her skin. I haven't been taking Jenny with me to the property in the evenings and probably a good thing. Those two meeting would be a big mess!

 

I think the Pool area looks much better this year without all the weeds and wildflowers around it. I love it down there, so relaxing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cattle...

 

No they are NOT ours!!

 

 

There are 11 of them total count and they have been roaming the neighborhood for 5 weeks. We do not have animal control in our county and I've contacted the Sheriffs dept. every week for 5 weeks regarding these loose cattle. They've done nothing and this Sheriff just lost my vote come the next election!! Nobody seems to know who's they are and they are driving us all nuts. I had to put an electric fence up around the pool as they seemed to think it was their own private drinking tank....They have busted through fences and ate things they shouldn't have. It's frustrating to say the least...I got photos of them the other day and I'm running an ad in the paper, hopefully we find the owners! I just don't understand how for 5 weeks you can have missing cattle and not know it. I hate it when people can not take the responsibility of caring for their livestock!! I've been told I can not take them to market and sell them as that would be rustling which is illegal...so now what? I'm not set up to run cattle on our property!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Port Aransas, Mustang Island Beach...

It's been busy here but I just came to a screeching halt (pinched disc once again) so I decided it was past time to post a few photos of one of our summer adventures...

I was sitting down at the pool late one night when I thought a trip to the beach sounded like fun. I got back to the house and booked a room at the beach for the next day and we woke up and took off for a couple of days at the beach, love it!

 

 

Mustang Island Beach...Beautiful day and awesome weather!

 I love our Jeep, love that it can take us down the beach away from the crowds.

 

Michael immediately got out of the jeep and headed for the waves!

 

He's still in boogy board phase, which I'm glad. I am sure when he's older it's going to be surf boards and bigger waves, ekk.

 

Lots of sea cucumbers...

 

And of course Michael had to set up a military base...

 

Wouldn't be the beach without a seagull or two or a million of them, lol

 

as we were leaving for the evening we watched these two guys trying to launch...

 They weren't having much luck.

 

 

5:30am is a bit early MOM!!

LOL...I wanted to catch the sunrise which meant an early morning wake up call...oops!

 

Gorgeous!

 

There's the sun!

I had big problems with my camera fogging up. The hotel room was super cold and we couldn't get it to warm up in there. Made for a miserable cold night and then when we got to the beach and the humidity was 100% the camera lens fogged up big time. I finally had to turn the heater on in the jeep and set the camera on it to get rid of the moisture...took me awhile but thank goodness I didn't completely miss the sunrise and got some great photos!

 

Rainbow behind us in the clouds, beautiful

 

Michael was having fun digging and building a moat

 

 

I took a lot of photos of the sunrise, it was just too pretty!

 

One of my favorite photos..

 

 

Not me those waves are too rough! He did turn around and come back in...

 

Breakfast anyone?

 

 

I was being watched...

 

8 years ago Fred and I took a dolphin tour with Kahootz. Michael has been after me to take him on a dolphin tour so I booked one for us...So glad Kahootz is still giving tours, we enjoyed it!

Totally relaxed and looking forward to the ride...

 

Bottlenose Dolphin.

They told us they had lost count at 35 when it came to baby dolphins this year.

 

 

frigate bird

 

 One of the babies playing around...

 

 



 Mom with her young one...

 

 



A young one checking us out...

 

Beautiful day for a boat ride

 

Tern following the boat...

 

Not something I'd want to try but Michael saw them and loved it! If he ever does it it's going to be without me!

 

Tankers and a tug boat in the inner coastal canal...

 

 They're up and off...

 

 

 Lydia Ann Lighthouse, near Aransas Pass.

 

 



Coast Guard in Port Aransas...

 

Polly Anna a gulf coast shrimper...

 

We had a great time and it was so nice to get away to the beach for a couple of days!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Down at the creek this evening...

 

It's really depressing for me to go to the creek right now. It's all dried up and there's no water in it and it really makes me sick to think of all the fish that have died. There are a few puddles and pools here and there and I've seen a few spotted gar and maybe one or two bass hanging on but unless things drastically change in the next week or two they'll be gone too.

 

I'm standing in the middle of Coleto creek, normally there is 3 to 4 feet of water here, not anymore!

 

Great Blue Skimmer

 

A wildflower I found in the creek bed...

 

 

Mustang grapes

 

 

Leopard Frog, a youngster.

 

This was a fishing spider. They are huge and (I think) very pretty. This one wasn't so lucky and something cut it in two, rather strange. I just never know what I'll find at the creek. I had to cut my walk short as it was getting dark.

 

We've put a large tub filled with water out for the deer. I've also had to put an electric fence and some liquid fence around the pool. A lot of my plants around the pool have been decimated either by the deer or by the wandering herd of cattle (that nobody seems to own)...sure wish we'd get some rain! I also wish the owner of the cattle would come forward too and claim their cows, they are tearing up the neighborhood and none of the local government officials seem to care either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A poem by Hollie McNish

I agree with her I think we should get use to this...