Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

This Inca Dove is nesting on the inside of our dog kennel cover.

An Inca dove sitting on a nest.

I just love covered nesting, don’t you?

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A cat on the inside? Maybe a cat burglar?

Cat on a stairway

Cat burglar?

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“Inside” was also a Weekly Photo Challenge in July 2012. Here’s the photo from that one.

Inside the Texas Capitol building, looking straight up into the dome

Inside the Texas Capitol building, looking straight up into the dome

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

I’ve seen all three U.S. coasts, but I don’t have any photos of them that I can find. They are photos before digital cameras were invented, anyway. Here’s my “artist’s interpretation” of The Sea.

This is the aquarium at Cabela’s in Buda, Texas, where you can walk through and see fish on both sides.

Cabela's Aquarium

Cabela’s Aquarium

Fat catfish in Cabela's aquarium

Fat catfish

Turtle in Cabela's aquarium

Turtle

Two catfish: one all white, one all black at Cabela's aquarium

Ebony and Ivory

My “sea” is an indoor, artificial, freshwater aquarium. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus

I use a point-and-shoot camera, so it automatically focuses for me. My efforts to try to get something in focus and out of focus at the same time didn’t work. That’s why I use a camera that already knows what it is doing.

Instead, here are two photos taken of the exact same spot: the top of the utility pole in our front yard (about a month apart, time-wise). The first photo, the Crested Caracara, was taken with a my old camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH20 with 8x optical zoom. The second photo, the Harris Hawk, was taken with my new camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS25 with 20x optical zoom.

Crested Caracara on top of a utility pole

Crested Caracara

Harris Hawk on top of a utility pole

Harris Hawk

Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus

Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree

Shop cat at Martha’s Bloomers in Navasota, Texas.

An orange shop cat

Doing what cats do best: nothing

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Tuco and his brother Q. It just doesn’t get any better, for a puppy. (Q has the glove with Tuco in pursuit.)

Two puppies, one stick

Two puppies, one glove

Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree

Something Different

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.