The Emancipation of Timothy Turtle...

 Hesitant,( my gift of turtle),

  Timothy headed out

digging into sand for safety

Will he head up or down?

No one will know.

While I played with rocks

Timothy made a quick get-a-way.

My First Feline Friday

Come back, Mom!

I'm trying to sleep!  Stop your caterwauling. 

I bet she can hear me!

Joining Feline Friday

Krylon Christmas...

Earlier this week I spoke of Adding Color and the problems I had with Krylon.  I complained.

I received an email immediately and a second email telling me they were sending paint.  They had determined the cans were faulty...through no one's fault...it just happens.

So I take it back, Krylon.  I did some research.  It was in fact a good will gesture to help cut back on graffiti art.  Krylon changed their valve.  Another case where good intentions come back and bite you.

So if you get a bad can, keep the bar code and talk to Krylon.  They stand behind their product.

The Things I Saw

Skink

Glade or fence lizard on rock

Box turtle taking time to smell the bitter weeds

Bull Frog by water garden

With someone along for the ride

Tiny Turtle For dVerse~Poets Pub

Tiny turtle in my hand

How did you arrive here

By accident 

Or man?

Tiny now too small to bite

You will grow

 Into a frightful sight.

The question remains

How came you here?

I know the answer...

From my sweet dear

Hubby's main goal

Is to make me scream

It's just a game

He's not mean

He laughs now but

I'm quite the sneak

I'll release this baby 

To the creek.

One thing we know

And tell

Around here

Paybacks are hell.

A whimsical contribution to dVerse~Poets Pub for Open Link.

New Ground Pasture

This land was cleared and planted at least fifty years ago.  It was referred to as the new ground and I guess it always will be.  The cattle don't care what it's called.  This was Dad's standard summer pasture and the spring valley was winter grazing along with hay and feed.

Today we counted cattle.

The grass is green.

This time last year it was drought brown.

Collateral is not sure he likes the attention. 

A bad picture of my favorite...Yellow Cow

If I didn't know better I would think there's a buffalo

 in this guy's wood pile.

Grass is good. This cow is not skinny.  It is the breed.

Bored with us and disappointed that we brought no treats

they move on.

Adding Color

The tile came off this porch table from a few years of weather.

Time for a change.

Measuring and thinking...

An old heat register cover is part of the plan.

I cut a hole for the register to rest along the edge.

Rotten top problem solved 

and outdoor table refreshed.

Not injured just crappy paint, 

Krylon Indoor/Outdoor Gloss in Cherry Red

was a drippy messy spray can of trouble.

This has been my fourth can of Krylon 

(I contacted Krylon and they are sending replacement paint)

 spray paint not worth carrying home.

BUT despite the difficulties

the result was okay.

I played some more

and one whole can was gone.

I am never bored.

Seed Ticks, Roller Coaster Ride and Places No Blog Has Gone Before

We are having visitors in September. I made the mistake of asking if there were places we could drive the Polaris so we would not have to walk so far.  Well, the butt showed me!!!!  My wonderfully fun Hubby took me for a ride.

Flying down a hill side with a big gravel wash

Flying up banks

Up and down the hills and terraces

driving through dry ponds

laughing maniacally 

while saying my niece screamed louder than I did. 

We went to an old home place 

where the only mimosa tree grows on the farm.

While I took pictures in the "clearing"

I got covered in seed ticks.

So down the high line we flew

through the meadows to home.

I think if they had a measure

I would not have been tall enough for this ride.

The Mag 183...

They realized someone had taken the message literally when they found the bodies just to the right of the sign.

photo by Steven Kelly 

Visit The Mag

Frog Fib

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads has a mini weekend challenge.  This challenge required a certain form and so I try because I like challenges.

Do
You
Think I
Can count spots
On this Leopard frog
As he hides in running water?

The White Deer With Real Toads

Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919)  "Solitude" (detail)  undated

Joining Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

for a creative challenge.

In the clearing

He danced 

For crops

And for rain

Magic was called

She came 

In white fur she danced

In the silent rain

Blessing had answered

Yet no one knew

Where she walked

Peyote grew. 

Hiding...

or trying.

Cucumber Cruncher...

caught in the act.

Crystal And Mushrooms...

Crystals and fungi
Lay on a log
First they were silent
Then came dialog

Shrooms spoke first
Offering a prophetic scene
Crystal counter-offered
With a clarifying dream

Neither vision was truthful
Both of them lied
Each could deliver a trip
But it could be the last ride

For Poetry Jam:  Poetic Visions 

Got My Eye...

on you.

Walking...

Lil stands on the tree trunk covered with poison oak.

I use to bathe here as a young child in summer.

This live creek has water year round.

This is a "dry" creek.

It will go dry if we don't receive enough rain.

See the tiny resident?

It's just a frog, Pat.

Treasures from the rain.