Outdoorsman Thread

[doglegg]

Phil, you go sit for a while in our Lord's wonderful creation and there is beauty all around. Thanks for your encouraging words.

[treefarmer]

I have nothing against traveling the world to see all the great things that are in existence both natural and manmade but being a homebody, I learned years ago that we only need to open our eyes and see marvelous things wherever we live. dogleg has captured my thoughts with his camera. Who pays attention to a dragonfly or wonders what youngster got his fishing line hung in the bushes and left a "bobber bird"? Great pictures that reflect little things that we so often overlook that have their own special beauty!
Thanks dogleg for reminding us of God's handiwork and also man's ability as observed in the bridge.
Treefarmer

[Quick Steel]

Don't recall if I ever showed this KY Summer photo before. Granted its only the front yard, but that's outdoors for me.
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[doglegg]

Thanks Treefarmer, you put it quiet eloquently.
QS, I like your front yard. No neighbors across the street, you can probably see stars at night where you live.

[Quick Steel]

Our neighbors across the road are cows. In fact two nights ago there was a break in the fence and a calf got out, was hit and killed. The front of the F-150 was of course badly damaged but the driver was fine. The driver lived just up the road and was very teary eyed, not about the truck but over the lost calf. The owner, two doors down, was understanding as he had to be since he had been working on the fence. He knew the fencing needed fixing. The most upset was mama cow. Don't like the sound of cows when they are separated from their calves.

[treefarmer]

Wiley E. Coyote and the sand pears. The pear trees are dropping loads of pears on the ground, everything seems to eat them. There was such a pile on the ground that I loaded them in the bucket of the front end loader a dumped them in front of a game camera on a road in the thick woods.
Naturally the deer work on them as do the rabbits, coons, squirrels, even a Pileated Woodpecker. I was surprised to get a bunch of pictures of at least two different coyotes carrying pears away and returning for more.

Ugly critters in the summer

This one looks old and gray in the face

Pileated Wood Pecker

Some old buttheads enjoying the pears

Treefarmer

[danno50]

A couple of butterfly shots my wife took in front of our camp where we spend a lot of the summer.

[danno50]

Here are a few shots of my cabin site. My Dad and I and a few friends built it in 1970-71. In 2015 it burned down in a forest fire. The first two pics are of our summer camp during reconstruction. The cabin sat up the hill to the left of the photo. Third photo is with the fall/winter tent being set up. The last pic show the view from where the deck of the old cabin used to be. We are 8 1/2 mile by water (or ice) from the nearest road and 1 mile from the nearest neighbor.

[Dinadan]

I like those pear eating wildlife photos, Treefarmer. I should plant one of the sand pears in my back yard. I have a couple of dwarf Asian pear trees that make a lot of pears in the spring, but no native American pears. Birds, squirrels, and raccoons love my pears.

Very cool photos of the butterflies and of the camp. Dan. Sounds very isolated and very pleasant if you like wilderness. Having the cabin burn would be a bummer, though. I guess all the dead trees were killed in the fire.

[Quick Steel]

Danno, interesting shot. Not something one commonly sees, at least not me.

[doglegg]

Love the pictures of the pear eaters TF.
Danno, that looks like a beautiful location. Love the butterflies .

[RobesonsRme.com]

But, you must have road access, given the freight container.

Beautiful body of water. Name?

Charlie Noyes

[jlw257]

Sunrise over Cotton Fields in South Mississippi

[doglegg]

Great photo jlw. My dad was a cotton farmer until the wevils turn him into a mechanic.

[danno50]

Yep, Dinadan, the trees are all firekilled. It is not really all that isolated, just a 20 minute boat ride and a half hour drive to the nearest town of about 2,500 people.
Charlie, the only road access is in the winter time across the ice. If the snow is too deep we have to get a road plowed. The shipping container was hauled in across the ice. We also hauled in a small track hoe to knock over all of the dead trees within falling distance of the site and pile and burn them. The lake is Nemeiben Lake, just north of Lac la Ronge, about 100 km north of the geographic centre of Saskatchewan.
Once I have the cabin framed I have to drag the container farther from the lake and level it up, as you can see it is a bit off kilter at the time.

[treefarmer]

I get a great deal of pleasure from my game cameras and every now and then a picture really stands out. Most pictures, I delete and I save only the ones that show something going on a little out of the ordinary or something that my youngest grandson might like to see. Last week it was all the different critters feasting on the sand pears I dumped in the woods. This week a little yearling buck apparently noticed the camera and he investigated it thoroughly. The picture only shows half of his face and one of his fuzzy little spikes but there is a big mosquito under his ear that caught my eye. This camera show a tiny red light each time a sensor detects motion, so I suppose he either noticed that or the camera makes a noise that most humans can't hear. There was evidence of this on the other camera as a coyote just passing by, stops and faces the camera.

Treefarmer

[doglegg]

Love the picture of the curious little buck. And the coyote's don't miss a thing.

[Paladin]

A little bloom on a potted cactus plant sitting on my patio. To me, the bloom represents a real contrast in nature. It lasts only one day.

Ray

EDIT: Jerry if you'll tell me how to do it, I'll straighten it up... Ray

[doglegg]

Ray, always surprising how something so prickly can produce something so beautiful. And cactus blooms are so brilliant as well. Love them.

Some we took pictures of in Boerne a couple of years ago.

[steve99f]

We have that type of cactus growing here in PA. Spreads like crazy too. Real fine spikes, barely see 'um. Beautiful blooms though.

[LongBlade]

Wiley E. Coyote and the sand pears. The pear trees are dropping loads of pears on the ground, everything seems to eat them. There was such a pile on the ground that I loaded them in the bucket of the front end loader a dumped them in front of a game camera on a road in the thick woods.
Naturally the deer work on them as do the rabbits, coons, squirrels, even a Pileated Woodpecker. I was surprised to get a bunch of pictures of at least two different coyotes carrying pears away and returning for more.

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Treefarmer

TF - I'm really enjoying seeing these photos from the video - I have a few friends who have setup these cameras back in the woods - it really lets you know who your neighbors are out in the woods

Yep, Dinadan, the trees are all firekilled. It is not really all that isolated, just a 20 minute boat ride and a half hour drive to the nearest town of about 2,500 people.
Charlie, the only road access is in the winter time across the ice. If the snow is too deep we have to get a road plowed. The shipping container was hauled in across the ice. We also hauled in a small track hoe to knock over all of the dead trees within falling distance of the site and pile and burn them. The lake is Nemeiben Lake, just north of Lac la Ronge, about 100 km north of the geographic centre of Saskatchewan.
Once I have the cabin framed I have to drag the container farther from the lake and level it up, as you can see it is a bit off kilter at the time.

Great camp Dan ... It's always nice to have a get-away from all - good for the soul ... I have to ask - how's the Northern Pike and Small-mouth Bass fishing up there?? One of my bucket list things has been a fly-in trip to one of those desolate camps in Saskatchewan - Big Pike on the fly rod would be a tremendous hoot and something I have seen video and photos of for years - I am talking Pike in the range of 45" and some over 50" ... My Bro-n-law has a camp way up in the Adirondacks in upper NY stat (and been to others of friends in Maine) - all basically off the beaten track - always a fine "escape" to clear one's head

[basser5]

I'm loving the photos everyone!
Here are a few recent ones.

[Quick Steel]

Very fine photos. Thanky you.

[doglegg]

Oh, Basser, you don't have a camera, you have a brush and palette. You certainly have attention to detail and to composition. Great pictures. I just looked back over them and can't pick a favorite. Excellent.

[basser5]

Thanks for the kind words fellas!