Back Country Road

The county road in front of the farm was covered with ground fog and made for an awesome country scene. This is the road that we traveled many times on our bikes as young kids to go over and play with our neighbors.

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Gray Tree Frog 001

I also encountered a beautiful juvenile gray tree frog this week on one of our corn stocks. It seemed to be happy just sitting there in the sun and let me get several close up photos of it.

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This young frog is only about a quarter of an inch long and so light that it didn’t even push down the hairs on the leaves of the corn stock. You can see the sticky toes that this frog has which allows it to climb trees with ease.

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This frog can also change color to whatever it is sitting on. Here it is green. If it is on tree bark or a rock it will turn gray. It seemed to want to cover its feet while sitting in the sun. Which I think made it look cute. That is if a frog can be cute.

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Sheriff Lake

Karla and I went down to McGregor to attend the funeral of one of my brothers. We camped close to where I grew up on a small rural farm with nine siblings. My brother Wally and I got up early and went to the homestead which was located along a beautiful lake where we would fish when kids. We reminisced about old memories growing up on the farm with our brother.

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Spider Web

We encountered many spider webs covered with dew.

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Wild Turkeys 001

As the sun rose the wild turkeys came down from their nightly roosts and started feeding in the fields.

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When they left the field they traveled through the oaks feeding on acorns that were dropping from the trees.

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