That time of year…

Memo to self: close screens

Out at our chacra (mini-farm), now happily no longer ours, I discovered an unusual contribution to my working mess: twigs in the sink…

…which had fallen from the light fixture I had built above.

And there were more in the refrigerator.

It seems to have been an avian case study into where not to build a nest. I was glad for that. And I closed the screen on the kitchen window. No idea why it was left open — painting, maybe — but previously I had startled a cat that made a hasty exit through the opened screen. Ya’d think a felluh would learn….

Under a scribbled sky

Another of those “if you painted clouds like this, you’d be called incompetent or lazy.”

Sky spotlight

Unusual phenomenon during my local dog walk yesterday. No time to find a view free of wires, so not great photos, but also not something I remember seeing before.

Two ant parades

Two different species of ants trying to make sense of their paths as they run into each other. No hostility I think, but there does seem to be a bit of confusion. My moving the camera all over the place doesn’t help. But neat: something we haven’t seen before.

The magic patch

At one of the more remote points of our dog walk, I started noticing a textured patch that gave no clue what caused it, or could have caused it. And never seemed to have had anything walk through it.

Since it seemed to occur every day, untouched, I put a footprint in the middle of it as an experiment.

And the next day find the pattern again, with no sign of my footprint from 24 hours before.

So what’s going on here?

A trip to where?

What made this trail? And why did it stop? And where did it go?

And what form of propulsion?

Makes a lizard look absolutely sloppy in comparison.

Don’t worry…

…we’re just clouds. We’re not going to hurt you or anything.

A little (fast) snake

I think it’s a juvenile falsa crucera de hocico respingado, minus the red bit on the tail. Here’s my visual snake identifier: dbosk.com/snakes.

Fun note about my snake page: it’s simple, but serves a purpose ignored by the 1990s-style Serpentario site it links to – allow you to identify a snake you see. ¡Que concepto! I recently sent the code to them, saying they were welcome to it, and they replied thank you, we’re planning an upgrade to our site soon.

I don’t still have their email from eight years ago, but they said exactly the same thing then.

Reminds me of this t-shirt I probably should have:

Tire dunes

After the rain, wind: the darker wet sand was compressed by a motorcycle tire, leaving a ditch that was then filled with blowing dry sand. Which formed miniature dunes.

Strange to think: I have walked in this area thousands of times, but have never seen (or noticed) this phenomenon before.