Gray fox

seen under our bird feeders, in the middle of the afternoon...

What is this bird?

I'm having trouble identifying this bird that showed up on our deck yesterday. Can somebody help?

Relaxing at Lake Gaston

My young friend Stephanie (on the left in the photo below) and her family have been visiting us every summer here at Lake Gaston since she was 3 years old. Through the years we have pulled them for miles and miles on a tube.





Now Steph and family have their own place down here and their own boat, which is much faster than ours. Our old pontoon boat could never give them a tube ride like this...





They're down!





Wait, is somebody still holding on???






Not anymore!

the view from below

Hey, what's going on up there?





Oh, never mind...

lucky!

Found this while walking the pups yesterday - see #1 of my 8 random things post

Bad hair day

I mean bad feather day. Here's Bug...





after this...








bluebird