A few in the yard, soon to be in the sky.

 My first photo today is a bit of mystery, these look a bit like un-ripe Elderberry's, while they are still green, but the plant itself doesn't look like an Elderberry bush, and I don't actually know what this plant is, I believe these are actually nuts, because they look a bit more hard to me, rather than soft like a berry.

 And here we have some of our actual Elderberry's.  We have a couple of scattered Elderberry bushes around the yard, but I am thinking about maybe harvesting from some of them, and using them for re-planting, and maybe trying to make some Elderberry jelly or Elderberry wine.

 This one is just a bit of a closer photo to accentuate the look of the leaves and berries of the Elderberry bush as opposed to the unknown one in the first photo.

 Got a couple of really nice photos of an Egret that was happily following along as I was doing some mowing out in the pasture.  The Egrets around here really love following the mowers and tractors around because it causes

 all the big grasshoppers and other bugs to go hopping around like crazy, making them easier to for the Egrets to catch, and the Egrets are more than comfortable with following the big machinery around, it almost doesn't even seem to bother them at all.

 Pecans are a really big deal around here in Louisiana.  When Pecan season comes, there is, almost literally, someone on every corner of the city buying pecans, we have a few trees out in the yard, most of which look like the pecans are coming in quite nicely.  These one's are from a tree in our yard that I think wasn't producing yet last year, but has so many that some of the branches are being weighed down.

If you do happen to know what that first plant is, please, leave a comment and let me know, all my google searches just bring up articles about Elderberry's.    I have a few more good photo's that I will be uploading tomorrow, or, at least in another post, to try and make sure this one doesn't get too cluttered.  Have a nice day,  and thank you for stopping by.

Egrets and Red Rivers

So, the egrets are back again, they love to come around, especially when we're mowing, since all the bugs are riled up from the mowers.  They're not terribly afraid of them either, since they've been around them so long, I guess,  they will get right next to them and run along with them, or follow right behind them, with no worries.

 I don't really know what these are, the smaller seeds/fruits/nuts look kind of like the Elderberry plants, but the plant itself is more tree-like than the Elderberry, but it's pretty prominent in one small area near one of our fences.


My next two photo's aren't from around the yard, but from out in the nearby city of Alexandria.      
                

This was a photo of the sun setting over a nearby medical center, and I thought made for a pretty good photo.

This river is known as the Red River, it is, in my opinion, a rather large river that runs right through Alexandria, or, technically in between it and the neighbor city of Pineville, which is right on the otherside of the river.     During another time of year the Red River is the sight of quite a few different festivities, one of them being the Alexandria River Fete, usually during March I believe it is.


I plan to start taking more photo's from out in town also, to add to photo's from the farmyard, so if you like the 'in town' photo's, please let me know, although the next ones will probably be from different places.

 A nice close-up of a Dragonfly, although I think it's right wing was broken, which is why it's dipped off, but I am not sure.









And here is the promised 'better next time' egret that I keep promising you all :P

A few 'normal' pictures from everyday life around here

This picture is sort of an update, this is a picture of those 'web-ball' caterpillars.  It's actually called the Fall Webworm, and the web-balls is a cocoon for what becomes a white moth, and they tend to nest in pecan trees, among others, and are, mostly, not dangerous, according to the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center at https://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_offices/research_stations/Pecan/Features/Pecan_FAQs/index_seriespage-18.htm

 This is a picture of a couple of our 'house-cats' in our screen room, where we put up a few shelves, for them to climb around on, still inside, technically, while also still sort of being outside.

 Saw at least 4 of these girls out in the yard today, the Red Eared Slider, a fairly common turtle that is quite often kept as pets.

 The family across the way has at least 2 horses, as well as their neighbor has at least 2 horses, and also a couple dozen cows.

Sorry for the quality of this Egret, I will definitely do better, this one was done at 32x magnification, so, he was pretty far away.

And here is my favorite one, I call it 'To the Setting Sun'  Even though it was taken at around 8-9 this morning, haha.

Some Egrets

 Had quite a lot of egrets out enjoying the recently mowed grass, easy grub pickings :D