Height of Spring
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summer_jackelPhotos from the last few weeks. I love this time of year.
Kyn and I went on a long hike last weekend...about fifteen miles, from the Willow Creek trailhead to the Indian restaurant on Highway 1 and back. We both needed it badly and I think we both had fun, even though Kyn hurt her knee a bit, I bruised the heck out of my instep on a rock, and it was well after dark by the time we got back to the car. Can we go again, Kyn, can we?
Sheltie says: Oh, it's May! prance prance
Coba has an obscene amount of coat (plans are afoot to show it in July and September!) but there is a zoomy little sheepdog underneath all the frosting.
Little drops of sweetness all over the world
Kyn's Rooster is growing up fast and lovely. Yuletide puppy bounds into his first spring, snout first and fearless.
Stonecrop about to bloom
Bliss in the hills (and my collie, too).
We found this gorgeous gopher snake on the trail. He was being very still, and when he didn't move when Coba stepped on him, I was afraid he'd been hit by a bike or otherwise injured. But when I picked him up, ready to hike him all the way back to a wildlife rehab, he proved himself to be in excellent condition. Kyn and I oohed at him briefly before letting him go off the trail, and he buzzed the end of his tail at us. It was adorable. ("OMG I am a RATTLESNAKE, you guys! Ignore the totally colubrid head, ok? Am so a rattlesnake." buzz buzz). Cuteness that is a gopher 'nakey, we love you.
Having an Indian restarurant at the end of this trail, in the middle of a day of hiking in the woods, is awesome and slightly weird. Also, delicious. We tied the dogs out in front of the window where we could see them, and Bliss and Rooster, who thought they were tired, did this adorable thing:
Snouts of collie, snuggled in a fuzzy pile. I'm really happy that Bliss has another collie pup to play and grow up with; the friendship between these two is really precious. The social interactions between canines can be really subltle and fascinating, and in this case, insanely cute.
Of course, the interspecies interactions have their own brand of 'awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.' My animals do this stuff all the time. I think part of the reason I have so many of them is that I can be going through a bunch of really sucky life/emotional stuff, and I look over and see the cat and the collie snuggled in front of the fire (rainstorms in May! Dude!), and my brain resets. "Oh, I can totally deal with [problem X]," says my brain. "The cat and the collie are snuggle piling. Life is good."
Miz Kaya would like you to know that she is a most excellent and lovely parrot.
Why would you put that clicky-machine between us when you could be petting my head? /coy headfluff/ Wouldn't you love to just work on the pinfeathers which are coming in on my face forever and ever? We can take turns, and I will preen the webbing between your fingers very gently.
'fluff fluff'
Well, ok, I suppose if you're going to be obtuse, there's a vaguely interesting new toy I might be bothered to investigate.
And here's a bird of a far different type. I went to Ragle Park in Sebastopol with my mom and brother this afternoon, and while we were eating pizza on a picnic table underneath this lovely grove of live oaks (I think) I spotted this beautiful pair of Acorn woodpeckers. They had a nest, too; I could just barely see it in the top of the tree. :) This is one of the parents on the nest tree; check out how the whole thing is filled with woodpecker caches.
I am really pleased with these shots. I love the acorn woodpeckers, and while I see them frequently enough where I live, photographing things with the Meeker shady light redwood thing is hard. Wild birds don't usually hand me shots this close, either.
This tree has hosted many generations of these woodpeckers! Only the nest tree and a few others next to it had caches like this.
Me hangin' out in another tree not far from the nest zone, this one with no caches.
Bliss greeting a couple of Great Dane puppies in the dog park:
Kyn and I went on a long hike last weekend...about fifteen miles, from the Willow Creek trailhead to the Indian restaurant on Highway 1 and back. We both needed it badly and I think we both had fun, even though Kyn hurt her knee a bit, I bruised the heck out of my instep on a rock, and it was well after dark by the time we got back to the car. Can we go again, Kyn, can we?
Sheltie says: Oh, it's May! prance prance
Coba has an obscene amount of coat (plans are afoot to show it in July and September!) but there is a zoomy little sheepdog underneath all the frosting.
Little drops of sweetness all over the world
Kyn's Rooster is growing up fast and lovely. Yuletide puppy bounds into his first spring, snout first and fearless.
Stonecrop about to bloom
Bliss in the hills (and my collie, too).
We found this gorgeous gopher snake on the trail. He was being very still, and when he didn't move when Coba stepped on him, I was afraid he'd been hit by a bike or otherwise injured. But when I picked him up, ready to hike him all the way back to a wildlife rehab, he proved himself to be in excellent condition. Kyn and I oohed at him briefly before letting him go off the trail, and he buzzed the end of his tail at us. It was adorable. ("OMG I am a RATTLESNAKE, you guys! Ignore the totally colubrid head, ok? Am so a rattlesnake." buzz buzz). Cuteness that is a gopher 'nakey, we love you.
Having an Indian restarurant at the end of this trail, in the middle of a day of hiking in the woods, is awesome and slightly weird. Also, delicious. We tied the dogs out in front of the window where we could see them, and Bliss and Rooster, who thought they were tired, did this adorable thing:
Snouts of collie, snuggled in a fuzzy pile. I'm really happy that Bliss has another collie pup to play and grow up with; the friendship between these two is really precious. The social interactions between canines can be really subltle and fascinating, and in this case, insanely cute.
Of course, the interspecies interactions have their own brand of 'awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.' My animals do this stuff all the time. I think part of the reason I have so many of them is that I can be going through a bunch of really sucky life/emotional stuff, and I look over and see the cat and the collie snuggled in front of the fire (rainstorms in May! Dude!), and my brain resets. "Oh, I can totally deal with [problem X]," says my brain. "The cat and the collie are snuggle piling. Life is good."
Miz Kaya would like you to know that she is a most excellent and lovely parrot.
Why would you put that clicky-machine between us when you could be petting my head? /coy headfluff/ Wouldn't you love to just work on the pinfeathers which are coming in on my face forever and ever? We can take turns, and I will preen the webbing between your fingers very gently.
'fluff fluff'
Well, ok, I suppose if you're going to be obtuse, there's a vaguely interesting new toy I might be bothered to investigate.
And here's a bird of a far different type. I went to Ragle Park in Sebastopol with my mom and brother this afternoon, and while we were eating pizza on a picnic table underneath this lovely grove of live oaks (I think) I spotted this beautiful pair of Acorn woodpeckers. They had a nest, too; I could just barely see it in the top of the tree. :) This is one of the parents on the nest tree; check out how the whole thing is filled with woodpecker caches.
I am really pleased with these shots. I love the acorn woodpeckers, and while I see them frequently enough where I live, photographing things with the Meeker shady light redwood thing is hard. Wild birds don't usually hand me shots this close, either.
This tree has hosted many generations of these woodpeckers! Only the nest tree and a few others next to it had caches like this.
Me hangin' out in another tree not far from the nest zone, this one with no caches.
Bliss greeting a couple of Great Dane puppies in the dog park:
