Sunday morning

Today is picture day. I've taken my little digital camera to the park a few times recently and taken photos. I'm going to try to upload a few here. Let's see if I can figure it out. To the left is a photo of the northerly portion of the larger side of the pond, looking south.


Next is a photo of the gaggle of Canada geese now calling the pond home.




The group includes the juveniles who are now almost as large as their parents.




To the right is the rock garden where I often sit on a bench and sometimes practice T'ai Chi (and where Jessie "hunts" for chipmunks who tunnel in the red clay and frolic in the crannies of the rock walls.)




Finally, Jessie and I saw the fox again today - actually I think we saw both foxes, out hunting in separate parts of the park. I think we happened on the second one when it was stalking Mallards grazing in the grass by the pond (I think there are a pair and they have hungry kits in a den somewhere, waiting to be fed.) Because we disturbed the Mallards, they jumped in the water and that caused the fox to turn tail and run. When it ran, I saw it and snapped its picture. I only had a second to take the photo, so it's blurry, the fox's eyes have that weird eye-glow thing that some times happens. But what makes me most sad is that the frame cut off the fox's tail, so you don't see its snow white tip. Well, now that I know the pair is there, I'll try to be better prepared next time.





Peace.