Very interesting

I soptted this lady... she was beautiful.

also swimming upstream.

Dressed for the occasion.

This used to be a long quiet walk. One would have thought there was
a mall or amusement park attached to this. But no... just the salmon.

spawning salmon

jeep yj man

It's raised he's lowered... someones happy.

excellent lighting minus bobcat

more from barns from the car

Barns from the car

bobcat .... ocd !!!

So the other morning, .. when this whole bobcat adventure began... I thought that he had all but disappeared. And then in the darkness of the back "BERMUDA" triangle I noticed something else moving.

In the above photo you can just see the bobcat emerging from behind the little house, and the cat had noticed something. At this point the bobcat was just merrily making his way out.

That is when this occured, and the two of them came face to face. They stayed like this for the longest time... I mean the longest time. It was absolutely fascinating. Check at the cats eyes. I had changed the setting on my camera, and these two images came up black in my picasa picture viewer... but then I lightened them.. so I could see what went on ... in those first initial moments when domestics meets the "not so" domestic... the housecat totally looks like garfield . Forgive the grainy view... BUT.. I was going to delete them... until I lightened them. See... even though my curiousity was peaked... I don't think it would have been to my demise... and happily for this cat, the same with it!

The problem now is... everytime I look outside... I am now looking for a bobcat. Mysteriously all the squirrels have up and disappeared mind you.

And then he paused...

Then he decided he was going to visit us in our yard, and paused... momentarily, and left.

AT least I got this photo! ... not a great one... but at least it was my lasting impression of our visitor!

freaking fruitbats...

Bye bye Mr. Kitty... skit SCAT out of here...

AND THEN... this is what goes down.

I didn't know whether to turn and run, stay and watch, take pictures... I didn't want to move, because I didn't want to startle the bobcat into striking out at the cat, and yet I didn't want to manifest into something if I could be the cause to stop it. So the visitor decided to stretch, and start to move away...

And then he continued to stay... and watch ...

Through the window

He sat for a moment...

And then began to slink away...

And then was up and down... and on the other part of our back fence and

I thought OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG.....

"This is my prize photo... and the best I am going to get is through the window...."


And I braved the outdoors... even though it was not going to be the best shot.

It all started like this

Jimmy was patiently waiting for me to finish watching my "Say Yes to the Dress" ... when he pauses...

"Mumda.. what's sitting on the fence..?"

Me.. (without looking) "is it a squirrel...?"

Uhmmm... no, it's bigger than a squirrel, bigger than a cat, but looks like a cat.

OOH LA LA .. well what do we have here!

Todays news bulletin:

It only took one wake up attempt to get the boy out of bed.

I can be my own mastercard commercial... cause that was priceless!

In other things more important to everyday life:

Right... I have nothing for you people....

BUT in an effort to come up with something that will post a smile on the faces of millions...

I was very much determined to NOT talk to any of the educators this week... I was on a roll, it had been a whole new month, and I was free and clear from their emails & phone calls, since last months festival of insanity... until yesterday... when the boy texted me... and told me his science teacher was crazy. OK.. so that means that things are not going all too stellar.... which means today will be followed up with people HUNTING me down. Some days its a good day paying for call display.

In other things that will not have any impact on any ones lives....

I am continued on my hunt for my next camera. Life is passing me buy ever so quickly, and it should be done WITH photos able to catch every single blur.

time ticks

when you are not ticking with time.

You know that this is the TENTH year of the war in Afghanistan.

here for a good time

Not a long time!

I like fog