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Something Different

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And now for something completely different (to borrow a phrase from Monty Python’s Flying Circus), something not so light-hearted.

Life in the country isn’t all roses and thorns. (I’m sure you are shocked to hear that.) Sometimes it’s rabbits and snakes.

I came out of the house with our oldest dog late Saturday afternoon and discovered a rabbit and a rattlesnake just outside our dining room window. I managed to get our dog back in the house without her seeing either the rabbit or the snake. Long story short (you really don’t need the details about how I panicked), neither the rabbit nor the rattlesnake survived. Rattlesnake measured about 57 inches long and had about 10 segments on its rattle. I felt sorry for both the rabbit and the rattlesnake.

Rabbit, rattlesnake and hubby.

Rabbit, rattlesnake and hubby.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece

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Certainly lots of images came to mind when this week’s weekly photo challenge, Masterpiece, showed up in my inbox. Art works from over the centuries could provide thousands of examples. However, as I respect the signs in galleries and museums that prohibit picture taking, I don’t have any photographs of them.

Mother Nature has the advantage in this category, anyway. (And the Houston Museum of Natural Science allows photographs in this exhibit.)

Conch shell at the Houston Museum of Natural Science

Conch shell at the Houston Museum of Natural Science

Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece

White Feather

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A white feather

A white feather left behind

Our Internet service provider experienced “some difficulties” sometime Monday night when there were storms in the area and we’ve been without Internet access. We now have a temporary workaround, thanks to hubby, but the downtime threw me off my posting schedule. I don’t have a white flag to indicate our surrender to the delicacy of our Internet connection, so here is a white feather instead.