Posted on 12/19/2008 6:13:29 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
Had a doctors appt. today, but no one said I had to go straight there and right back home again!
This is a downtown lake in St. Augustine, almost always something there eating fish! Snowy Egret and Great Egret.
It’s all good. Merry Christmas to you as well.
swampsniper went to the doctor. I don’t know how he did...apparently well enough to use his camera...
I shot a deer in NC once and when I found it, little red ticks were pouring off it like it was changing colors.
Life’s rough in the wild.
Great photos, Swamp. I hope your health is good and that your mobility improves.
Beautiful, SS!
Year round warm weather is great, but the bugs never end. We’ve quit hunting rabbits and squirrels because they are infested with ticks and fleas.
You said a mouthful. My wife and I spent the better part of a year camping out. It's easy to talk about how pre-European Americans lived in harmony with nature, but once you have spent part of every day picking ticks off yourself, and trading revisions of your nether parts with a significant other, a little chemical warfare against the tiny critters doesn't seem so abominable. Give me bug spray!
Another time I had to check out about 20-30 goats we bought. About half had pneumonia, all lice or ticks.
It's like when I watch westerns or military shows. Everybody is way too clean.
One time I was on the base and I started to turn the corner of a building and I was wondering where the stink was coming from. I thought maybe the Honey Wagon was pumping out a ripe, filled up septic tank. No, it was a dismiss formation of about two hundred grunts that had been out for three weeks. I could smell them a football field away. They, of course, didn't think they stank.
THAT one I got right ;)
Ho!Ho!Ho!
Tatt
VERY nice!
Again...you post beautiful pictures for those of us who are snowbound!
You are a real treasure, SWAMPSNIPER.
You take good care of you.
I think God means for you to photograph the beauty he shares with us.
Thank you, they are fantastic.
Have you seen these beautiful photos of Swampsniper’s?
Thanks for the ping; post; thread. Life, beauty, humor, camaraderie.
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