Jayamos
Farmer
Huge congratulations to you and your family, @Hawkgirl6511!
Happy pics
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Hawkgirl6511
Cowpoke
Hawkgirl6511
Cowpoke
Thanks!!
Hawkgirl6511
Cowpoke
But he's a good kiddo
Hawkgirl6511
Cowpoke
Lew Zealand
Helper
That cat rump reminds me of this:A contemplative picture of a contemplative cat
He's not mine though, I'm cat-sitting for a co-worker. I did buy a cat tower just for him, how nice of me. Took him a few days to stop being scared of it but he seems to appreciate it a lot more now.
astatine210
Rancher
We’ve been working on staining the back patio wood structure and there has been a robin hanging out here for the past couple of weeks setting up her nest. Today SO was on the room and he discovered that she’s finally laid her eggs. Such a beautiful colour for the shell!
FairyRing
Farmer
How amazing!
Lew Zealand
Helper
When we last left our plucky adventurer:
Feeling that the omens might actually have forgotten for once to get out of bed and cause a general ruckus, and confident that it was only coincidental that a higher than average amount of glue ended up in said omens' beds the previous night, our plunderer of persuasive pictures continued her pursuit.
Slowly sneaking up behind the overgrown hedgerows, ear straining to hear the low cattle-call of the nigh ever-present caretaker, approaching the dangerous clearing from which any sort of abominations could spring at any moment, one eye clears the threshold to peer trepidatiously across the moor...
The fowl freeze their feathers in place using their natural camouflage to blend into the background of cotton candy, Care bears, roses, bubble gum, piglets, peach sorbet, and albino eyes. Being quite adept at freezing even in a SoCal summer, they may have failed to observe their surroundings a bit and slightly missed the color, but their ability to stay motionless is par excellence, moving nary a muscle as I carefully studied them. Unlike the previous sighting, the Den mother was nowhere to be found, likely on a smoke break or doing routine salamander maintenance.
Perhaps, just perhaps, you too might encounter this rare convergence of apparently flightless birds congregating on a local lawn and be quick enough on the draw with yourcamera phone to capture this elusive enemy before they strike. Keep your wits about you and one eye always open. That nobody's ever seen them pounce for the jugular may only be because nobody's ever lived to tell the tale.
Eternal Vigilance!
There was the distinkct stench of failure pervading the far flung lands. No I didn't annoy a skunk. Yes, I took a shower! No! I didn't step in——
Embedded deep within the wooded confines of Suburbia Forest, having dodged multiple machinations of minuscule mammals, misplaced marsupials, and moped moms, our slightly overheated intrepid observer spied a collection of local talismans which boded well for the day's traipsing.I didn't get the picture as the rug was pulled out from under my plans and in retrospect there was little chance it would be the same Happy Pic the next day. With no actual picture, I will instead paint a picture with...
words
Ooo, impressed yet? Oh my friends, this will get a lot worse. Because I'm doing this literally. <thumbs nose at FairyRing>
This is stupid. So stupid. So it should be done.
Edit after finishing: This did not go well. It was not worth it. It doesn't work. Oh well. So little payoff for so much work. Learn from me: do not follow your mistakes down a rabbit hole.
The picture I wanted to take was of a nice looking
house with similar coloring to the pic above, though
parts of the house were white and you can't paint
your house that way. So I used yellow because gray
looked awful. But a house does not make a Happy
Pic. Instead, the abundant lawn adornment, in this
case about 2 dozen plastic Pink Flamingoes rather
artfully spread across the front lawn in quite the eye-
catching manner. Well, it caught my eye. Which is
good as it'd have gotten all dirty and covered in
worm spit had it fallen to the grass. Anyhow, that
lady must have been admiring her handiwork. FOR
MINUTES. I mean it was good, but not minutes
good. And now, a day later, with the wisdom of a
much older and more experienced brain, I realize it
was probably set up for some party or photoshoot
and something that good cannot persist for too long.
The universe must disperse all that goodness to the
far distant tendrils of creation else the remaining
multitude crumble underneath its jealousy and
yearning for that impossible remote super-goodliness
they never shall approach.
Or the plastic flamingo rental period was up.
Feeling that the omens might actually have forgotten for once to get out of bed and cause a general ruckus, and confident that it was only coincidental that a higher than average amount of glue ended up in said omens' beds the previous night, our plunderer of persuasive pictures continued her pursuit.
Slowly sneaking up behind the overgrown hedgerows, ear straining to hear the low cattle-call of the nigh ever-present caretaker, approaching the dangerous clearing from which any sort of abominations could spring at any moment, one eye clears the threshold to peer trepidatiously across the moor...
The fowl freeze their feathers in place using their natural camouflage to blend into the background of cotton candy, Care bears, roses, bubble gum, piglets, peach sorbet, and albino eyes. Being quite adept at freezing even in a SoCal summer, they may have failed to observe their surroundings a bit and slightly missed the color, but their ability to stay motionless is par excellence, moving nary a muscle as I carefully studied them. Unlike the previous sighting, the Den mother was nowhere to be found, likely on a smoke break or doing routine salamander maintenance.
Perhaps, just perhaps, you too might encounter this rare convergence of apparently flightless birds congregating on a local lawn and be quick enough on the draw with your
Eternal Vigilance!
FairyRing
Farmer
Lew Zealand
Helper
Guard Cat protects skellytope from unwanted astromanometers who say they're going outside to view planetary alignments but really want to present their unoccupied neckular regions to the local outdoor feral cat population so they may hop up and occupy said cat curlup locations while the astromanometer performs the evening pantomime of supposedly studying some super sensational shiny subject in the night sky. In a vain attempt to seem like they are in fact wearing the elusive Tiger Hat.
Guard Cat is saving the astromanometer from the shame of making such an insubstantially diaphanous excuse. Also Guard Cat makes a better faux Tiger Hat because stripes.
FairyRing
Farmer
I love the perchhood on the blanket.
Lew Zealand
Helper
Fungus fungus fungus fungus fungus!!!!! Yayyy!!!made it out to the forest this past weekendand was honored to come across some Shroom friends.
Got another job recently so haven't been able to be on as much. Wishing everyone the happiest of moments!
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Finding feral forest and flatland fungi is my favorite!
FairyRing
Farmer
3 little water color paintings I've done. I've been berating myself recently for not finding the art inside ... But then I remembered I've done these! Happy
Mostly they are experiments with the way the water colors work together on this surface. I love the way these turned out. My favorite is the one I see as a tumultuous sea ( can you find the accidental heart in it?)
Beginner watercolor art.
Mostly they are experiments with the way the water colors work together on this surface. I love the way these turned out. My favorite is the one I see as a tumultuous sea ( can you find the accidental heart in it?)
Beginner watercolor art.
Lew Zealand
Helper
I love them all, especially the greeneyness of the green one, but mostly because of all the green.3 little water color paintings I've done. I've been berating myself recently for not finding the art inside ... But then I remembered I've done these! Happy
Mostly they are experiments with the way the water colors work together on this surface. I love the way these turned out. My favorite is the one I see as a tumultuous sea ( can you find the accidental heart in it?)
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Beginner watercolor art.
And this makes me think of this:
Potatoes
Farmer
@FairyRing those mushrooms are super cool, there's just plain old city ones around here, but I still like them. I like your paintings as well, the green and blue one is my favorite.
@Lew Zealand I'm glad you survived that pack of flamingos. I saw some reduce a mountain lion to fluffy once with my bare eyes. Scarry stuff.
@Lew Zealand I'm glad you survived that pack of flamingos. I saw some reduce a mountain lion to fluffy once with my bare eyes. Scarry stuff.
Lew Zealand
Helper
@Lew Zealand I'm glad you survived that pack of flamingos. I saw some reduce a mountain lion to fluffy once with my bare eyes. Scarry stuff.
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OMG is that where fluffy comes from?? <picks up some fluffy and strokes it, hearing a very faint purr...>
kitty!
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OMG is that where fluffy comes from?? <picks up some fluffy and strokes it, hearing a very faint purr...>
kitty!
Potatoes
Farmer
OMG is that where fluffy comes from?? <picks up some fluffy and strokes it, hearing a very faint purr...>
kitty!
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Haha, yes, that is definitely where fluffy comes from. That's not a typo at all and wasn't supposed to say fluff.
It was reduced to fluffy, very cute.