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"Every thing is possible in Springtime."
I've made greeting cards with colored pencils and pens ever since I was a kid... It is a simple joy...
This was an image from last year. I really really miss living in Toowoomba. It had a lot of flaws (the drivers) but it was such a pretty town.
SpringTime Velvet Buck
I know this buck as “Goal Post. He only has one brow tine on the horn on your right. He also has perfect ears meaning he’s a lover not a fighter. I’ve been watching this boy grow up for the third year now. He’s almost respectable now, has grown and generally is very receptive to posing.
I’ve been “working around” this guy for several years now and he is pretty tolerant of me. I have to be slow in what I do with my vehicles as with any wild animal. IT’s all about getting your rig to act like a grazing animal. Stutter stop, start move 10 feet, “graze a while” move some more. You have to wait to move until their attention span lessens of their awareness of you. They go back to grazing. Wait a few seconds and move another 20 feet. Take your time.
I have worked my way into the middle of several different wild deer herds precisely doing the process above. You can’t just drive up in the middle of a group expecting them not to scatter like the wind. . They would misconstrue the quick approach as a hostile act. Only the other grazers can integrate into a deer herd. So there is an art to getting really close to any wild animal but I do stay in my rig. Getting out is a bad idea across the board. Making them used to the human form is counterproductive to their reproductive processes. I get them used to my vehicles. I never get out or push them ever. If I scared them routinely, it would be a hard thing to approach the next time.
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.
Title: SpringTime Velvet Buck
Updated May 23: A storm blew through on Tuesday leaving a trail of devastation across the state of Iowa. We were fortunate with only rain and high winds. My Irises took a beating, lost some, trampled down a few that I cut and brought inside, closed up a few but opened a few more! I find beauty in all the stages that a flower takes from bud, to flower, back to bud, to dying. Behold life and death in a cycle thru Mother Nature. Photo Images credited to Vickie L Klinkhammer of Vickielynne Photography and Designs(VLP&Designs)
Always plenty of action by the Coots disputing territory & females in spring. At other times they seem quite docile. Shame they were not in open water as the reeds got in the way
After a day of heavy showers, you can almost feel the growth in this field on a sunny Spring evening.
Home Sweet Home Museum, East Hampton, NY. This bird's nest was situated at just about eye level in the wisteria.
We were camping on a cool spring day in Newfoundland beside this lovely stream. The leaves are not yet fully out.
Pattern: Springtime Bandit, by Kate Gagnon
Knit in Blue Heron Metallic, color Flax. This yarn has been marinating in my stash for almost five years; this will be a shawl for one of my bridesmaids.
Springtime Lilacs - Lilac bush in my side yard...for now. Coming down soon to make room for new landscaping. I will miss my lilac bush. It was a reminder for the past 20 years that warmer whether was coming soon.