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Post by RocDoc on Mar 17, 2008 15:39:39 GMT -5
nature is unbelieveably grand, THAT's for sure!
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Post by bowiglou on Mar 17, 2008 17:59:12 GMT -5
wow, great pics Strat-o...where I live the only time I really see "nature" is when I surf..thus this morning saw dolphins and sea lions (of which may I add about a month ago for some reason they became unusually aggressive...literally nipping at the heels of many of us surfers...very very odd behavior)
.............and more odd was seeing a Gray Whale two months ago come very close to the surf/surfers.....I'm wondering if it was ailing....
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Post by strat-0 on Mar 18, 2008 23:09:29 GMT -5
Thanks Bow! I'd love to see a whale in the wild - especially one of the big ones. That must be awesome! I went on a dolphin cruise in a converted navy transport off Pensacola Bay one time and it was a blast. The dolphins were being, um, rather amorous, which was a little awkward for some of the parents...
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Post by strat-0 on Mar 23, 2008 3:36:07 GMT -5
The red shouldered hawk is also known as a chicken hawk.  "You're a chicken and you're my victim! Now are you gonna come along quiet or am I gonna have to muss ya up?" (dragging home Foghorn Leghorn) |
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Post by phil on Mar 23, 2008 7:01:08 GMT -5
The dolphins were being, um, rather amorous, which was a little awkward for some of the parents...
Oh come on ! Dolphins have only flippers...
How racy could it really be ... ;D ;D
Now, the Bonobos on the other hand ... !!
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Post by rocknroller on Mar 23, 2008 7:57:17 GMT -5
Christmas decorations at the house in '07:  |
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Post by Ayinger on Mar 23, 2008 10:40:48 GMT -5
I love seeing Christmas lights. At the same time, they're usually the cap symbol of my holiday depression -- when the neighborhoods return to darkness after the 25, I'm reminded of how I yet again missed out on the season.
Strat, your clip cracked me up -- now that's when 'Toons were 'Toons!!
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Post by rocknroller on Mar 23, 2008 19:40:33 GMT -5
The red shouldered hawk is also known as a chicken hawk. "You're a chicken and you're my victim! Now are you gonna come along quiet or am I gonna have to muss ya up?" (dragging home Foghorn Leghorn) Where I come from a chicken hawk is usually some sweaty, fat, hairy, smelly old fart who preys on adolescent males...although as a kid I loved those foghorn leghorn 'toons. |
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Post by phil on Mar 23, 2008 20:18:40 GMT -5
love seeing Christmas lights. At the same time, they're usually the cap symbol of my holiday depression -- when the neighborhoods return to darkness after the 25
I keep mines up until Mardi-Gras. But then, I don't install them
unitl 2 weeks before Xmas, not right after Halloween ...
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Post by strat-0 on Mar 23, 2008 21:47:51 GMT -5
The dolphins were being, um, rather amorous, which was a little awkward for some of the parents... Oh come on ! Dolphins have only flippers... How racy could it really be ... ;D ;D Hmmm, perhaps it was their dorsal fin! The females actually go through some rather profound anatomical changes as well. ~~~ Our tradition is to take down the stuff on Jan 1 (or 2). |
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Mar 24, 2008 0:10:30 GMT -5
Christmas decorations at the house in '07: Take the lights shown in this picture and multiply it by about 150 and you would see what I saw in Montgomery during the holidays. I remember turning a corner and BOOM!, there it was, the brightest display of Christmas light probably in the entire Southeast. All of a sudden I couldn't contain myself and I just busted out laughing. Laughing LOUD. I mean I frickin' exploded. My bass player was sitting beside me and I started him laughing too. I mean it was reeeeediculous. Their power bill must've ended up being 5 grand when it was over with. You had to wear sunglasses to look at their house and at all the stuff in their yard. Anyway, just thought I'd share that because I laughed so damn hard I think I added a year to my life. |
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Post by strat-0 on Apr 15, 2008 22:01:05 GMT -5
Looked out my window this morning and the woodchuck that lives in the woods by my driveway was in the yard having breakfast. He's a cute little pudge, isn't he? I had a friend who made a pet out of one once. Here, he has a dandylion head sticking out of his mouth.   Getting ready to go down the tree-stairs. Standing up for a better look.   |
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Post by strat-0 on Apr 17, 2008 22:50:31 GMT -5
Non-plussed by my groundhog pics, eh? Well, maybe I'm too easily amused. Heh, heh... I love springtime! Made it through another winter! Yay! Here are a few shots from around the place today and yesterday. I just love running all around the place when it starts getting nice! Here's a couple of of shots of a nice little recreation area across the creek. Make yourselves at home!   While I was down there, I spied one of our hawks up in the top of a huge red oak, about 125 + feet up. He was just a tiny spot up there, but I could hear him and made him out up there, so I snapped a highly zoomed in shot of him. Yeah - he's sitting there looking right back over his shoulder, directly at ME! They don't miss anything - nothing!  Here is the base of that red oak tree. My cell phone is there for scale (four inches). I measured the circumference and the diameter of that tree is over 3 feet. (pie R round)  Not far away is this giant tulip poplar of a similar diameter. I put my phone in there, too:  Finishing up with just some lovelies of the creek around duskie-ish...    Please come see us, y'hear?  |
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 18, 2008 11:40:25 GMT -5
absolutely gorgeous!
i don't have a crik or anything that cool, but i love now living in the much more country-ish atmosphere we're in now at the new house (as opposed to the 'real' city life of bungalow-next-to-bungalow-next-to-bungalow urban-ness of our previous town adjacent to chicago) where you look out and there's mature trees out to the street, as opposed to someone's brick effing wall.
the first few mornings that i woke up here, i'm looking out the window thinking 'wait, are we on vacation out somewhere, or what?'
now i'm curious, what sort of atmosphere were you living in immediately before buying this place strat?
were you in 'the city' then?
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Post by strat-0 on Apr 18, 2008 16:45:23 GMT -5
We were in a one-bedroom condo with a courtyard on the south side of Birmingham.    Quite a change indeed to this big house on two acres! I hope we'll be able to stay here. |
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