At the Mudpuddle Shop in Niles, California

Box turtles are not generally aquatic animals. This one looked out of place to me sitting in a mud puddle like this.

Taking a break in a mud puddle...

ground water ice

mudpuddle II, 6/6/11, 4:13 PM, 8C, 9780x9840 (150+2190), 125%, Custom, 1/30 s, R84.0, G58.2, B70.2

Yon stack of interlocking concrete blocks is picturesquely situated on a "lakeshore."

I would not want to be down there in it, but I like to look at it from up here.

It seems like everytime I handle scrap metal I get cut up real real bad.

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In downtown Topeka, Kansas, on March 28th, 2022, a view toward "Midwest Scrap Management" from the north side of a bridge on SE 6th Street, west of SE Chestnut Street.

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Daniel at the San Pedro skate park on a rainy day.

From an afternoon out taking pictures with Orbitgal.

We should all find a puddle on our rainy days....I don't think we are too old...do you?

Scott plays in mud puddles right before bedtime.

Fell

Also known as seed shrimp, a tiny bivalved crustacean.

Well, not everyone would consider getting up at 5am to go sit in the muck beside a mudpuddle in the middle of a cornfield for a couple hours a relaxing way to spend a morning, but I have to say it was rather relaxing! With all the summer travel to relatives, dealing with tornado damage aftermath and blistering heat and humidity, I have not had much of a chance to get out and do a great deal of birding this summer. Yesterday morning I decided to drive out early to the Oatsville Bottoms of the Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge in Gibson County, Indiana to see what shorebirds were starting to come back through our area. While mostly Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral, Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers it was good just to get out and have a quiet morning watching these guys go about their business. Hopefully the weather will cool down a bit in the next few weeks and start to bring in greater numbers and variety.

Flooded parking lot.

At the Mudpuddle Shop in Niles, California

ooooooops.

At the Mudpuddle Shop opening for Tracy Newman

ground water ice

At the Mudpuddle Shop in Niles, California

Today we went out to get some shots of frogs jumping. Here's what we came up with... still working on keeping the moving frog in focus!

the poem that the title "for the record" comes from has the signature line, "my jackets in your mudpuddles." what's that? you didn't know I had a spoken word CD? indeed I do ... mail me & we can work out a trade.

Playmobil men taking a little journey through a mud puddle :)

•Born: 1552

•Birthplace: Devonshire, England

•Died: 29 October 1618 (beheading)

•Best Known As: The man who laid his cloak over a mudpuddle for the queen

Sir Walter Raleigh was one of the grand scalawags of the Elizabethan Age. He made a name for himself fighting the Irish at Munster; later he was introduced at court and became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I. Known for his wit and womanizing, Raleigh was in and out of Elizabeth's favor. (According to a famous legend he once laid his plush and expensive cloak over a mud puddle so that the Queen's feet would not be dirtied; the legend has long been disputed, but it may actually be true.) He also organized expeditions to the new world, popularized tobacco, and found time to write poetry on the side. Raleigh was not a favorite of Elizabeth's successor, James I, who kept Sir Walter imprisoned in the Tower of London for years and finally had him beheaded in 1618.

After Raleigh's execution, his head was embalmed and returned to his wife... Some sources say on the day he was beheaded Raleigh was granted a last smoke of tobacco -- establishing the tradition of giving a prisoner a last cigarette before execution.

Read more: www.answers.com/topic/sir-walter-raleigh#ixzz1cxQqZHbV

A rainy day for a walk, but we didn't get too wet.

Congo Square had it's share of water and mud.

There were two traffic islands in this parking lot, and this one was my favorite: It's adorable! I call it "my lawn."

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In Dallas, Texas, on February 13th, 2023, at the Fair Oaks Tennis Center in Fair Oaks Park, on Merriman Parkway west of Abrams Road.

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reflecting the state of mind after a hard night out :)

Simple things often make the best studies of light and shadow.