Dogs. Flying Dogs.

What do you do when the temperature and the humidity both hit 90 on Labor day?
You get up early and go to the fair.  Sheep, pigs, goats, horses, cattle, greasy things to eat.  And dogs.
Flying dogs.

Another few degrees hotter and I would have begged someone to throw a ball for me.

Baby goats

More flying dogs

Very talented kid with well-trained young steers

Umm...

Very creepy goat

Another creepy goat

Not too bright, this guy.  Looking sheepish.

Nostrils

Sad bunny

Looking good, doing really poorly on the log pull.

Back To Bradley - A Different View Of The Mountain

For 25 years I spent the best weeks of the year at a camp on Bradley Lake in Andover, NH.  Today we went back there to visit friends and to paddle around.  Here are the results.

Mount Kearsarge from the East

Turtleheads

And Turtles

And More Turtles

Sometimes You Can't Do Anything With Your Hair

Aw Fergit It.  I'm Gorgeous.

Maw, They're Making Fun Of Me

Blatant self promotion:

Blatant self promotion: Wilmot NH Conservation Commission display at the Post Office.

Peaceful Evening

This was such a peaceful afternoon.  Floated around the pond.  Sat on the shore and read as the sun went down.  And then nighthawks!

Can you see the great blue heron?

Bidens frondosa - begger's ticks.  I love to see this flower, and never fail to pull it out of my gardens.

Turtlehead!  Chelone glabra.  Look at those little turtles.

Sensitive fern.  Onoclea sensibilis.  

Shroom

You can't see them, but there were nighthawks in the air.  Perfect end to the day.

Bike Riding On A (Almost) September Day

It sure feels like September today: dry, cool, sunny.  Smells like it also, that dry smell of hay and autumn wildflowers.  Crickets singing.  Raven overhead.

The bog on Stonebridge Road

Bluecurls

Cemetery on Pancake Road

Keeping off the flies on Pancake Road

Autumn Day On The Water

A cold front came through last night, with wind and rain, and today was a spectacular day to be out on the water in Wilmot Flat
. 

    Turtlehead (Chelone glabra) is blooming.

                      Dragonflies are patrolling their territories and laying eggs.

    Rafts of mallards are forming up before heading south.

    And great blue herons are stepping out in style.

Carnivore

I am always fascinated by floating bladderwort (Utricularia radiata).  The yellow flowers are really hard to photograph.

Utricularia radiata, showing the underwater bladders that suck in little aquatic bugs

This evening I sat at the edge of the pond and watched thunderheads build.