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.
Category: Nature
General observations, generally during dog walks
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.
The not-shy green lizard
Normally little lizards blend with the background and scurry away as soon as you spot them. Not this one today. And not that I would have caught him, but looked like he’d make a cool pet. Happily Lea, the lizard-hunting dog, was not close by and not paying attention.
On the beach, Parque del Plata
