Lovely summer year-end day in Uruguay.
End of 2019
Category: Nature
General observations, generally during dog walks
Mushrooms, mushrooms
Past-prime mushroom fading back into a burned stump. The area we walk in suffered a serious fire ten years ago.
The lucky spider
The dog Lea has an exceptional gift for stepping on anything we stop to look at on our dog walks. Happily, this time she misses.
State of the fruit trees
Lemons: going bonkers as usual
Oranges: from fewer than a dozen to date, this looks like it may be the breakout year
Avocados: after a barren year, indications are we can again anticipate hundreds this season.
Yikes! Spikes!
Palo borracho: tree-hugger’s nemesis
Lea catches a lizard!
Unfortunately for Lea the Lizard Chasing Dog, it was already quite dead. Its tail broke off moments after taking this picture, an impressive escape move from something that isn’t even alive.
Dog walk today
In ten years of documenting Dead Things on the Beach, I have never seen a mouse.
The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Disappearing chives
We’ve always, it seems, had garlic chives In this planter, which we largely ignored. Until this year. And now something else has decided to eat them. Ants? Other critters? No clues I can find as to what it may be.
Mysterious critter trails
The flowers
Cutting the lawn today, I stopped the mower to take a picture of the flowers.
Then I heard the bees.
I’ll mow that another day.