This year has been wonderful for roadside flowers, and
I am so happy seeing them.
We had more rain today... there was supposedly only a 20% chance... but it poured and poured and poured.
Corn is up, but many of the lower fields are under water, so we will see how it grows.
concensus...
Thank you, Donnell, Friend Jill and Old Friend Terry,
that the mystery bird is
the Western Meadowlark... you know, the State Bird of Kansas!
I had never seen one here... I had never seen one at the old house... but I see them all the time as I drive back and forth.
Okay, I agree.
The one I saw sure looked big, though.
So, is this one? (female) The beak does not look right... but maybe it's my foggy picture through the windshield tonight.
Jes was ready to come home tonight, even though we made a very fast trip to the rain-sodden old house. I can't go into the old henyard now without bug spray, it's ... buggy.
Our side yard, as we got home.
It has been full of water for three weeks, but it did go down enough that I was able to cut around it.
Now, I'm afraid, we're back in the soup.
Thank you, Donnell, Friend Jill and Old Friend Terry,
that the mystery bird is
the Western Meadowlark... you know, the State Bird of Kansas!
I had never seen one here... I had never seen one at the old house... but I see them all the time as I drive back and forth.
That is, of course, not my picture, though I would love to capture one like that!
The one I saw sure looked big, though.
So, is this one? (female) The beak does not look right... but maybe it's my foggy picture through the windshield tonight.
Jes was ready to come home tonight, even though we made a very fast trip to the rain-sodden old house. I can't go into the old henyard now without bug spray, it's ... buggy.
Our side yard, as we got home.
It has been full of water for three weeks, but it did go down enough that I was able to cut around it.
Now, I'm afraid, we're back in the soup.
