Showing posts with label frog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frog. Show all posts

Friday, December 19, 2025

Things that Made me Happy in 2025, part II

I wander alone most of the time, these days. Except, that is, for those friends I meet on the trail, some human (and such a joy to find you out here under the trees!), and many others, the true owners of the forests and shores I'm privileged to visit.

Here are a few of those:

Raven, patrolling the Elk Falls parking lot. June.

Black bear, Buttle Lake, out for an afternoon stroll down the highway. Here he stopped to investigate something among the roadside weeds. July.

Sparrow, bringing home breakfast for the kiddies. Tyee Spit, July.

Chia, companion, midnight zoomer, keyboard stomper, brown bag destroyer. Always at the door to greet me when I come home.

Deer in snowy woods. This area, just south of Campbell River, always gets the deepest, fluffiest snow early in the season. February.

And new fawns, on my street, June.

Cute little green froggy. September, at the beaver pond, Hyw. 28.

Many not-so-good, bad, or really terrible bird photos make me happy, too. (Some make me laugh and I post them to the Worst Bird Facebook page.) This was just a speck in the distance on Roberts Lake. In my viewfinder, with the lens at maximum zoom, it was still a speck. Blowing up the photo revealed a loon, not diving, showing off his checkerboard back. August.

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Ando a solas casi siempre en estos dias. Bueno, eso es sin contar los amigos que encuentro en camino (¡y qué gusto verlos aquí bajo los árboles!) y muchos otros, los verdaderos dueños de los bosques y las aguas que tengo el privilegio de visitar.

Aquí hay unos de estos últimos:

  1. Un cuervo grande, Corvus corax, vigilando el estacionamiento de Elk Falls. Junio.
  2. Oso negro; caminaba por la carretera pasando Buttle Lake. Aquí se detuvo para investigar algo entre las hierbas. Julio.
  3. Un gorrión, con el desayuno para sus polluelos.Tyee Spit, Julio.
  4. Mi gatita, Chia; buena compañera, escandalosa a medianoche, reprogramadora de mi computadora de dia, destrozadora de bolsas de papel a cualquier hora. Siempre me recibe en la puerta cuando  regreso a casa.
  5. Venado en el bosque lleno de nieve. El bosque por este rumbo, un poco al sur de Campbell River, siempre se llena de la nieve más profunda, más volátil al principio de la temporada. Febrero.
  6.  Y nuevos venaditos en mi calle. Junio.
  7. Una ranita verde cerca de la laguna de los castores, en la carretera 28. Septiembre.
  8. Muchas fotos no tan buenas, o malas, o verdaderamente terribles también me hacen feliz. (Algunas me hacen reir y las subo a la página Facebook Worst Bird.) Vi un puntito negro en la distancia en el lago Roberts. Con la lente de la cámara a su zoom máximo, sigió siendo un puntito. Al ver la foto aumentada en casa, apareció este colimbo común, Gavia immer, que nadaba tranquilo, sin bucear, mostrando su diseño de manchas blancas y negras en forma de tablero. En agosto.

Friday, March 02, 2012

Menagerie

The weather continues as before. Rain, mist, sunshine, rain again. Another day inside four walls.

If I can't go out and find things, I can at least prowl around my house and take photos of some of the animals that "live" here. I picked these three up at antique fairs; I don't think they're really over 100 years old, just sort of old. Maybe they'd qualify for the "Vintage" group.

A jade goat. There's just a hint of green in the right light. He's resting on a Central American men's cape.

Mythical animal, much battered, in jade. With the cape and a Chinese pot.

Mr. Froggie. I don't know who made him or where. No matter; I think he's cute.

If this weather continues, maybe I'll just go birding inside. We'll see.


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