Last Evening

Last night we took the dogs to the River-walk and had a very nice walk. I do believe Amelia was REALLY happy when I loaded her into the car; what do you think? 

We went to the entrance here in Cayce where the main bathrooms are located; it's my favorite entrance because you are immediately under a thick shady canopy. Here is Scott with the little brat - I mean Bernadette. 

People kept stopping and asking if they could pet our "puppy"; she is close to 4 years old according to the Vet. She is cute; but I feel bad for our mutt dog, Amelia as everyone is actually afraid of her and she wouldn't hurt them at all. Amelia and I would just keep walking while Bernadette sucked up to her newest "friends". Then we'd hear the steam engine coming up behind us - Bernadette can not stand to be behind Amelia  and I and she will pull and pull until she is about strangling herself and breathing heavy - she sounds just like a steam locomotive. GEE WHIZ!

We did stop several times and just watch the river flow by. The Cicata's, frogs and birds were really vocal last night.

By my hands....

Yesterday I tried working on Anne's Round Robin but what I was thinking of doing wasn't working out at all. SO I scrapped the idea but had to do something with the strange little blocks that I had come up with so I made a Christmas Table Runner. Scott says that it is quite busy and thats putting it mildly; what do you all think?















This morning I started working on a necklace and earring set for a little gal in my life - her birthday is this coming week. I hope that she will like them; she told me that her favorite colors are red, black and purple and that she likes silver better than gold. I'm making her a Fairy set. I will take some more photos when I get them completed.



















With it being the weekend Scott and I went for yet another wonderful walk by the River. The Osprey was there in the old dead tree near where we park the car. It looked SO MAJESTIC and there were 2 large black crows doing their level best to torment it but it didn't care one bit how much noise they made. What a Regal creature.

I spied a lovely baby Brown Water snake. It was only about 8 inches long and doing it's best to hide from us. There were also hundreds of baby fish that I tried to get a picture of swimming near the shore. You'll have to blow that water picture up and see how many you can see.

And I can never get enough of the sun glistening off the water with the large dark protrusions of rock busting through it's surface.

All in all so far today has been GREAT!

A MOST Amazing Walk

We had the BEST walk today by the River; Nature rewarded us for showing up in a BIG way today! We heard lots of bird calls and then a crash through the trees right beside us and then there were massive wing flaps as a Red Tailed Hawk gained a roost above our heads. It had killed a bird and was waiting for us to clear out to retrieve it. I took a couple pictures and then we stepped back and got quiet and watched her take her prey. SO AWESOME! I LOVE birds of prey so much and have always enjoyed watching them fly so gracefully above our heads way up in the sky - SO FREE.

We should have known it was going to be an amazing morning as we found a miniature Stonehenge next to the car when we got out to start our walk....

And Scott spotted these two "getting busy" - which lead to a conversation on the breeding habits of toads vs. frogs and the need to do a bit more research on the topic.

We also saw a black snake but it was too fast to get a picture. It was about 3 feet long and headed into the brush as soon as Scott said, "LOOK". And we saw several Broad Headed Skinks. Scott touched ones tail and it shot into the brush and then popped it's head back out in another spot like, "WHAT THE HELL!" Such a wonderful day with Nature.