This scenic drive took us to West Mamm Creek Road it quickly takes us into the White River National Forest. Unfortunately Gas and Oil leases in this area abound. And yet fortunately that means the roads are well graded! So if there is a the silver lining...
It's hard to believe the color that is showing up already!
The night's have been cooling down into the 50's so in the higher up elevations probably 40's!
I really liked this charming building with post n rail corrals....looks like it has seen it's best years but is aging well..
Fences posts really do provide lots of perching spots for birds, and other critters...
California spotted squirrel
m bluebirds, western kingbird
the western meadowlarks finally sat still long enough...CLICK!
Summer is short lived here...soon it will be over not like back home in SC where September is as hot as August only drier, a cooling trend has already begun, just this week we had 97, 94, 89, and today 89.
Here is what I think is the Vesper Sparrow hanging out on barbed wire...I have seen so many immature sparrows that I can not identify...it's been such a challenge, I am not familiar with what's here and they all look a little off being juveniles, about gone cross eyed!
Maybe one day I will look though my photos and know what it was...Grasshopper with a pale lores??
Here is a really cool cow I met, I didn't see her calf though...this was in free range area, so he could have been bedded down nearby.
Spotted another Lincoln's Sparrow I have to wonder why it's called the Lincoln's? So I found out Thomas Lincoln was a member of James Audubon's team when he was painting every bird in North America....it was Lincoln who caught this bird for Audubon to paint, it was new to them so they named it after the 21 yr old Lincoln.
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Nothing is as pretty as an Aspen Grove, did you know they share one root system?
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The road down below that we use to get off this hill is being paved so today we stayed home...I took a hike down the back hill put my hiking boots on for the first time since the toe break, it felt okay...not great but okay..anyways down the bottom of the hill I found this skull...looks like a cow skull that the horns have been cut off of...what do you think I am no skull expert.
...that's a shame...
.I haven't seen any adults lately so I think they vamoosed and left the kids to fend for themselves!!
...and check this out!! Found this inside the house up on the wall-->y'all know I'm scared of arachnids right...even if it's only an inch long
Scooped him up in the duster and escorted him back outside where he belongs!! I will be shaking my towels and shoes from now on!
I got a nice text from my cousin up in Michigan if you guys recall last year at this time I was in St Ignace Michigan celebrating Labor Day with all of them. Sure was nice! Here we will have a quiet get together just the 3 of us and the 4 dogs!
PEACE
Every day is a new Adventure.
