friday's fringe 28 ~ lake collage & bye-bye bones!

YES, this is friday's fringe...on thursday.
but it IS friday somewhere...on the other side of the world.

tomorrow morning i have an app't at the dreaded dentist.
(last week a client gave me a mini twix bar. while eating it, i felt something hard between my teeth.
hmmmmmmm, a rock in my twix bar.

nope.  a tooth.  the one i had a root canal done on not too long ago.
it just broke off! shit! at the gum line! surgery tomorrow morn. double shit!!)

i've been pretty stressed.
a perfect thriller for halloween.
aaaaaaargh!!
FEAR!
(the one good thing is that i'll have to rest for a day...time to catch up with reading...)


back to the friday on thursday post...

last weekend...
we went camping/fishing to Rodman Dam/Reservoir (AKA Lake Ocklawaha)

SUNRISE on the lake

SO many pictures...thought i'd just do a collage

the lake: bald eagles, cormorants, anhingas, herons, sunrise, grackles, dragonflies, butterfly, egrets

CLICK for LARGER view

oOo

mr bOnes.  his final october post.

soon it'll be time for all his buddies to go back in the closet.

but mr bOnes will remain perched on the mantel- all year long.

he and his bony friends have been gathering...

telling ghostly stories...shaking their bones...pulling pranks

and just being a little mischievous before they head into hiding. 

“That cold ain’t the weather, that’s death approaching.”

30 Days of Night (2007)

thanks for visiting...on...

lk

counting down...to...

ALL HALLOW'S EVE.  HALLOWEEN.  NIGHT OF THE SPIRITS.

HAVE A MAGICAL & SPOOKY NIGHT.

a new beginning. out with the old, in with the new.

remembering & honoring those that have passed on.

Blooms. Bee. Butterfly. Birds...DAM!

thanks!

but, nope...i didn't paint this.

'gimp' did.  a (free) photo manipulation program.

 i turned it into an oil painting from one of my blooming Azalea pictures.

 cool, yeah!

the Azaleas are attracting bees and butterflies!

Orange-barred Sulphur

TWO Orange-barred Sulphurs

 that's not the ONLY TWO for ONE i've spotted this week...

a Pileated Woodpecker

 

TWO Pileateds!!

oOo

saturday we went for a drive to Rodman Reservoir...

one of the best DAM places in Florida for Largemouth Bass.

we wanted to check out the campground.

it was nothing special, but it'll do for a weekend of fishing sometime.

a Cormorant

(Snail...this one's for YOU...)

 

 Watching clouds roll by
on a sunny day
Who needs church?
Nature is divine.
~Carrie Latet

 a Great Blue Heron

(not 'gators floating in the background. the reservoir is on a draw down right now

and there are stumps & logs jutting out of what's left of the water!)

well, what do you know...

i actually captured a Bald Eagle flying away with his catch of the day!

blinded by the light...when sam said 'LOOK! an eagle!'

i pointed UP, crossed my fingers and...clicked!

a small piece of weathered wood

stuck between a rock and a hard place.

"can't you give me a little elbow room here! this wood's got to breathe!"

today is an errand day.

and tomorrow i have only one appointment in the morning.

SO,

between this afternoon and tomorrow...

i plan to enter blogland...and not leave until i have circled the world!

have a safe journey & stay cool.

laura

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss 

at the bottom of which 

you will always find forgiveness.  

~Honoré de Balzac