Urban Wildlife: Awesome Raccoon Encounter
Ranger put on her special bark this morning to alert us that there was something besides a squirrel up in the loquat tree. Sure enough, there was: Video clip is here. YouTube version is here.
Vidz
Susan and I took our inner children to see Wall•E — LOVED it. But in lieu of an unecessary review or anything substantive of any sort I hereby only offer links to the following vidclips made yesterday, of the dragonfly I photographed that afternoon and a quick game of fetch between Susan and Ranger:
King Of The Dragonflies
This fine specimen allowed me to get my cam almost to its wingtips for this late-afternoon shot that I’m very pleased with (click to hummongify):
Morning Snap: Peekaboo
Buster’s Palace: Roof Is Go!
The early afternoon run to Home Depot Sunday was a success in procuring the materials I’d need to build the lid to cover the main part of the tortoise hutch begun and completed Saturday. By the time I got home it was hot and I wasn’t really planning on commencing construction, but with Susan still …
Buster’s Palace
It’s funny, when you think about the materials involved in putting together a 5′ x 5′ outdoor pen for our Russian tortoise Buster — four boards, four legs, slats, screening material and some brackets it seems like putting it all together would take hardly any time at all. Four hours later, I finally was done …
Buster In Repose
Our Russian tortoise Buster, whom you may have seen recently in a far more active mode, likes to position herself in the late afternoons to catch the last of the day’s rays as the sun sets behind the Micheltorena Ridge, and only minds it a little bit when I encroach with my cam on such …