Clear and crisp yesterday afternoon, I took a short walk down the driveway with the big lens towards the Prickly Pear cactus where the Roadrunners are nesting, wanting also to show you how the Filaree has come back in a week’s time after 1.38″ of rain. Growing again, it’s amazing feed! (Click to enlarge the thumbnails below.)
March 25, 2014
April 1, 2014
The Roadrunners share their Prickly Pear home with about a dozen Cottontail rabbits who delight in waiting until the last moment before moving to avoid a vehicle coming or leaving the house. They’re fairly tame, but it’s a rare Bobcat or Coyote that can catch one.
Back at the house, the pair of Roadrunners were hunting snails in Robbin’s Irises.
A beautiful day for fools, we never left home with plenty to see and do between rains.
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Love these posts John – a different rural world to my rural world.
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So glad, Spike! I guess it’s our similarities in the seasons, climate and crops that intrigue me about your blog, your hands-on eye and its amazingly joyful appreciation for life – yours is a broad and eclectic brushstroke of Turkey and the Mediterranean that is fun and engaging. Thanks again.
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I’ll have to post a photo soon of the glory that the Altamont has turned in to with the rains. Green that is incredibly….well, green!
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And this morning, Angeline, after another third of an inch of rain, the grass on the hillsides has gained noticeable texture at a distance overnight as the Filaree begins to lift its leaves after desperately hugging the ground all season long. It is indeed soothing and fresh to see this lovely color green.
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good pictures
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