Great Egret

So I'm taking a shovel back to the tool corral [where Stephen is supposed to keep his mes, um tools corraled] and I notice something new to the yard....


It's a great egret! It's big! It's after the fish in our fish pond! It does not want to go away! We finally had to build a mesh cage to put over the pond. It remains optimistic about its chances though. We see it all the time.



Awfully pretty though. And kind of wonderous to have in your yard in downtown Snorasota. Florida is amazingly fecund.

glowing in sunlight
thinly bound by gravity
hope stands on stilt legs

I think I'll call him Sparky

The cats bring in lots of anoles [nope, the lizards you see for the most part in South Florida aren't geckos].

screen clinging lizard
is no match for my technique
of catch and release.

kitty haiku # 609

black and white kitteh
scares all with snarly face and
claws like ninja knives

Myakka State Park

Beautiful Myakka State Park on an idyllic Sunday.

Then you notice something lurking in the water.

Gatorzzzzzz! Actually, this was just a teensy.
We've seen some monsters out there.

brown tinted water
moving slowly thru rushes
home to dinosaurs

Figuring the new camera out...

Squirrel eating a loquat. The birds love them too. They're tasty, if you don't mind the fact that most of them have a bite out of them :)

after the loquats
scores of squirrels storm my garden
like TV for cats