A little of this and a little of that

I don't really have many new photos to post but found a few I have taken over the last couple weeks that I decided to post. This one was taken while taking a drive around the country side a couple weeks ago. Everyone has been haying their fields and bailing it. I love how these are rolled instead of in squares.

I also loved the old truck they are on.

Be sure and enlarge them.

Things are pretty quiet at the Duck pond these days. Not much going on. All the babies are grown up even tho you can still tell the young ones from the Adults by the size and colors. This is the white duck that had the pin feathers that I posted walking across the parking lot with its Canadian goose friend a few posts back. The are still together but this was feeding time and begging is done alone you know.

:)

A little boy was tossing out bread. I loved the look on his/her face.
MAY I HAVE SOME BREAD PRETTY PLEASE ?

Sharp shinned Hawk

This was out sitting on our back fence a few mornings ago. I took this photo before shooing it off. I am not sure if it was eyeing a bird or the bird bath. It was a rather warm day when I got this.

We went to walk on Sunday at the Park and heard a Band playing and it was about 7:45 AM. I had to go peek. It was a Christian band practicing for some event. I got to see the new half shell that was recently delivered to replace the one that got ruined in the bad storm.

Sure is pretty.
I did feel sorry for the Senior Citizens that live in the Senior housing just across the River in back of the half dome tho.

Sunday in the Park.

A little music, a little sun, some reading. What more can one ask for?

I tried to get a close up picture of this gal walking her corgi, for Cathy at Cleavelandgirlie, in the park but she was really hoofing it. We did get stopped by some nice lady who flipped over Annie. She said she too had a Red Border Collie and had to show her to us on her phone. She was a lighter red and she said she loved Annie's darker Red and could she take a pix to show her husband. I said sure.

She said she was up visiting her Mother From Las Vegas. I said, Aha SHE was the one who brought the heat up last week. :)

She got down on her haunches to pet Annie and so I told Annie to shake hands and she did then I told her to give her a high Five and she did that too. She was rewarded with lots of sweet talk and petting.

We have so much fun walking in the park. We interact with so many people and thier dogs.

We have been managing to walk almost every day for an hour or at least over 35 to 40 minutes. The more we do the more 'Annie' wants to do.

LOL

Our Veggie garden is growing taller daily but we are being bombarded by little yellow beetles that look like red ladybugs with the black dots on the back. They are eating up everything like locus. They are getting Fairs figs now. they can strip a leaf in no time. We are trying to hand pick them off and squish them so as not to have to spray and kill bees or birds, but I'm not sure we're winning.

So this years crop might be a wash out if we cant get rid of them soon.
Fair was really discouraged this morning. Its not been a good year for our flowers, trees and crops so far. We've been plagued by mildew, snails and worms and now these yellow flying beetles.

close up view.

And last but not least,

My Daisies seemed to be doing well and blooming bug free.

Thats something at least.

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