Steve`s Country
For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Daily Pics 2020, #78.
Good morning everyone! Well, here we are, half way through another week. I hope your day is going well. Muffin is having a great morning again, running wild and jumping around. At least she gets good exercise doing this twice a day. Not much else to do is what she is saying. Still too cold to have the windows open. And the chipmunks are not around yet. But we finally have another squirrel that is brave enough to come up to the door and get some peanuts. And walnuts. These walnuts are from my landlord’s walnut tree which had a huge crop of them last year. I have a big box of them which I am now putting out for this little squirrel and he is happily hauling them away. There is another squirrel too, but that one won’t come into the yard. The fence seems to be the edge of his territory and he won’t cross it, not even for peanuts. Amazing really. Maybe when he sees this other one hauling those big walnuts away, then he might decide to come over and get some too.
And now, for the main part, more bright flower pics…
And let’s start with this brilliant white peony. My landlord has a couple of these peony plants in white and they are very nice, large flowers indeed.
And now for this extra big pink hollyhock with a bee hiding her head drinking up that nice nectar and unaware that I am taking her pic. Which is good, considering how close I was at the time.
Well, there it is for today’s picks of pics for your enjoyment. Don’t forget that chapter 5 of my mystery story will be out a little later. I hope you have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
Nature’s Art #32.
Hi everyone! It’s a nice day here with a bit of sun and cloud mixed together and a temp of 23F (-5C). Really not too bad although it is a bit cooler than it should be this time of year, but still, better than it was. Muffin is feeling kind of bad though since her forecast for an early spring isn’t likely to happen now.😿 Early would mean the snow would have to be gone by the end of March. Hmm, not too likely unless things change real quick. However, a few nice treats and she feels better.😺 And of course, playing with her fuzz ball. Wow, does she ever like that thing! She tosses it and jumps after it. I toss it for her to really get her going and does she jump high and catches it and throws it herself. It’s soft so she can grab it easily with her claws and I’m not quite sure how she does it, but somehow she lets go of that little ball and it flies up to 8 feet with Muffin right there to catch it again. It’s really quite fun to watch her play with that.
But now it’s time for our look at some more art in nature with beautiful mushrooms again…
I showed this one once before but didn’t know the name of it. Now I do, it’s called “Gloioxanthomyces nitidus”. It’s a small, slimy mushroom and not really for eating. And it is very bright and glows in the dark forest.
And here we have another different kind of white mushroom and a very nice specimen too. Sorry, don’t know the name or if it’s edible. Well, that’s it for our nature’s art today, enjoy your day as best as you can and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
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