Beatrice, click for full size. Beatrice was one of the very shy, not people social ones, so I’m not overburdened with photos of her. She was very beautiful, and she definitely took after her dad, Havelock. Click for full size.
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From Giliell, click for full size!
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Jack and I both love to be by the water, so today we braved the mosquitoes and walked the trail that crosses the river. It was a lovely walk too, filled with birdsong and the sound of grasses rustling in the breeze. I did get one mosquito bite and it’s a big one, but it was only one and Jack came home tick free. Our timing was good too. About an hour after we got home it started to rain. Lucky us.
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A purple finch at my feeder in early May of this year. As with most of my bird photos at home, this was taken through the glass of my bedroom window.
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Many areas were flooded to become part of the Moscow Canal and Volga-Baltic Waterway. The remainder of this church is underwater.
A beautiful church on the banks of the Volga River
Private residence on the Volga River
Another beautiful church, built in the traditional Russian style, along the Volga River
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Link to previous post –The Moscow Canal
I remember when trees used to be the biggest things in the landscape.
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How low does a woodpecker go? Apparently all the way to the forest floor if that’s where the bugs are.
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The proper name for this path is the Millennial Trail, but I generally refer to it as the Drunken Forest because of all the tipsy trees growing at odd angles. They’re not all leaning in the same direction and some of them lean over so far they seem to be defying gravity. They all seem healthy and happy, though. It’s a very curious sort of place.
Lean to my right
Lean to my left
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Just a few happy, wild daisies to brighten your day.
Happy daisies
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A few photos of the stuff that grows wild around here. There’s lots, so I put most of them below the fold.
Queen Ann’s Lace and a hint of Dame’s Rocket marking the trail
It’s a hot day here so Jack and I went for a slow walk around the shaded pond at the park. We haven’t been here for a while because I’ve been avoiding the swans. They were incubating 3 eggs on the pond’s little island, but the last few times I was here both adults were off the nest and swimming together with no babies in sight. I was feeling sad that none of the babies made it, but I was wrong! There is one cygnet and I found him today with his proud and protective mama.
Proud mama and her cygnet
Feeding together
We also checked on the goslings who are now big, goofy teenagers. The area where they nest also has some younger babies, including one who looked freshly hatched.
Babies of all ages, even a newborn (bottom right)
The goslings are teenagers
Teenagers getting ready to shed their fluff
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