Nature
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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
!! My heart 
is filled with love from the girls and all you Bucketeers! No better way to celebrate than to show you our first fawn of the season. Her mom took a drink and then the fawn laid down by the stack of firewood while she went away. Fawn stayed there the rest of the day and I came in from the she shed at 8PM and we were making coffee and saw the mom come back but the fawn didn't get up and we were wondering what if Hattie came. Next thing we see is the mom take off running and she drove Hattie wide around the fawn and just stood there. I went to get feeders and when I was heading into the house I walked over to the west side and looked around the corner and there was Hattie on the sidewalk by the back gate waiting for me. Figured we could give her the crusts from our pizza earlier and get her mind off the fawn. We had a similar incident last year with the male fox kinda nipping at a fawn. I put out the crusts and she would take a crust, jump down from the bench, eat it behind the bench, and then get back up and take another. I looked for the fawn this morning but didn't see it. There have been 6 deer that I could count laying in the front yard close to the road in the high grass all morning.
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Bob Marley left us on this date 45 years ago. His music lives on and will for eternity. Woke up to this little ditty in my head after ferocious storm last night that knocked out our electricity. There were 50+ mph winds and had to pick up limbs and the tomato cages that I recycled to block the deer from the front porch. Whew. Lots of lightning and another 1/2 inch of badly needed rain. People in Austin had trees crash on top of cars as the storm gained strength after leaving us. We didn't have the hail that some had so this song has been my mantra for 50 years.
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Today's photo is a rare visitor to my bird bath. A Scarlet Tanager stopped by to take a bath! Prior to this, I finally spotted the male Painted Bunting at the bath but wasn't quick enough with my phone. We've seen the Scarlet Tanager the last couple of years. However, a pair of Painted Buntings and their chicks have been around for a dozen or so years. I know where they nest on one of my lots. I always look forward to be able to see one.
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Today's photo is of a patch of my garden that is dedicated to all the pollinators in my life! It's cover for the ground and provides lots of nooks and crannies for bees, butterflies, lizards, hummingbirds, and lady bugs! Waiting for a couple loaves of banana bread to finish baking. Smells so good.
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The wonder of nature comes alive in these "cottonball" clouds! I am one of those that can look at a cloudscape and see images.
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TGIF Here's the little bit of Kansas that I still have left in me from my garden here in Texas. For the birds
and the bees 
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How 'bout them #Jayhawks taking the Big 12. Happy for them and the ladies. Go Spurs Go! Will have to beat OKC. Tough out.
Today's photo is of a what I believe is a Gloxinia. They are hybrids that can breed quickly and produce many blooms. The display last about two months and rarely return after fading. But mine came back after covering it this winter and it does have a lot of blooms. I got it for $0.98 couple of years ago. Not bad.
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This is a little blurry because I was shocked to see Hattie tip the bird bath so she could get a drink. Ever resourceful. She's around more during the day than we ever have noticed. She comes around the deer and they don't bother each other. She must feel safe!
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 and this is your neighborhood chupacabra?
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Today's photo is of a bloom we got off an ivy vine that Mike had gotten a clipping from a house he was remodeling and transplanted to our back flower bed, amongst the nandina (heavenly bamboo) and corn plants. It bloomed up untill 2019 and then we never saw another one. It was lost in the 2021 freeze.
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The girls like to do puzzles. They are currently working on a 3,000 piece one of a Swiss village amongst the Alps. This one showcases the wonders of our world. Anybody else do puzzles?
#RCJH GO KU
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 My wife does puzzles with the kids and i hover for a bit. Theyre currently doing the 1000 piece pokemon puzzle again. Its slightly sadistic. Deceptively hard because the pokemon art has large single color areas. I think most of our puzzles are 1000 pieces. We have a few “magic puzzles” we still have to open.
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@approxinfinity this was a wild one they did of all the Pixar characters
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 nice! That looks like a fun one.
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I usually spend the last hour of the day working a puzzle. This is one of the more challenging ones I've done lately.
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@nuleafjhawk A group of frogs are called an "army" or "colony". Bet that was hard.
#RCJH GO KU
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Today is WORLD BEE DAY. I looked in my photos and did not find one.
Today's photo shows the destructive nature of 21 inches of rain we had last July 4th. This is the bridge I go over to get out of my area and was the only one that withstood the wall of water that came down Cow Creek. Mike helped build this bridge back in 1987 and 1988 when our community had rallied our county commissioner to fix our low water crossing. The low water crossing was all the way at the bottom of the creek bed and you drove down and across and up the heighth of the banks shown here. I remember going across rushing water in my 1984 Bronco and feeling the tug of the current then. Many times I was unable to get to work because it would be washed out. Last July, both bridges going either east or west were washed out. Two people in a car went over this bridge when the water was rushing OVER IT. they only found one person a week after. Other one was never found. I can't imagine thinking you could get across it with how high the water was if it was going over the railing.
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 I did not know that! And yes, it was pretty challenging.
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 do you have any brands of puzzles that you like or don't like? I have actually thrown out two Buffalo brand puzzles. I've had very good luck with the Kodak brand.
