Rural Explorations...The Saga continues ! (brought back to life by everyone)

Great to see you can post again AZ, thanks for taking up some slack for me

So, I've been busy/lazy the last week,but I still took pics

These are of a rainbow I found (yup I looked at the end,no gold)

(when first seen)



Then I drove a few miles...still no gold.....



About 5 miles further...

I guess the barn is golden...

Notech, sweet rainbow shots!!

AZ ... your cat?

Well, I just have a couple more shots of Bald Eagles. Found them last weekend in central Minnesota.

i went up to rucker canyon in the chiricahua mtns for my man-crisis the day before i turned 62.

AZ ... the two warning signs, which made you more uneasy ... smugglers or black bears?

Happy Birthday

smugglers...by far. those guys have no scruples. they'll kill another smuggler just to steal his drug load or illegal immigrants. but there were alot of border patrol guys in the area & they even stopped me to check inside my Yukon.

Az

i brought my camera yesterday to shoot some pics the flocks of sandhill cranes that migrate here every winter...30-40,000 of them usually. but none were here yet.

Az

Thanks guys for taking up the slack for me

AZ, I really like the canyon shots !

Horni, I wish I could get bird pics as great as yours

So, a couple of weekends ago I decided to check out the end of the summer run of salmon,this is what I found.

(taken from a bridge over battle creek, ca.) this is one large fish,sadly,dying without spawning (they stop the fish at a hatchery a bit up the creek)



all the same fish...



and...



and,they are talking about taking out the dam above the hatchery so that they can go upstream to the historic spawning grounds !

edit for oops too many pics

The fish is probably in the 30 lb. range and female.

This is the last two of her.....





I took pics of a male that I'll post in Horni's pecker thread

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there were alot of border patrol guys in the area & they even stopped me to check inside my Yukon.

Glad to hear they're doing their job.

And I think the Sandhill's are still up here ... 10's of thousands in Wisconsin. Probably be a couple months yet before you have big numbers.

Notech ... Cool Salmon story, and thanks for saving some shots for my new thread


Here are some fall colors up in Minnesota.

Southeastern MN



Central MN



Central MN

Thanks Buddy, I hope to post some california fall pics soon.

Well fall is harvest moon time, so here are a few taken 11-2-09............



I took these over about a 5 minute time,

I forgot to say this is looking up Mill Creek canyon in N. Cal.







(the best one I saved for horni's pecker thread)

i watched that moonset monday morning, too. it was great here, too.

this thread is awesome thought i would add some of my own that i took myself


these are pictures that i took of a very old little building, they used to sell orange from it (shocking!) but its been closed for a LOT of years now and the weeds are actually growing inside of the building now :P

these are from a natural spring thats close to where i live, went there to see the manatees :P

you can see the manatees in the last picture against the far riverbank side

Aww, I like sea cows. They're so cute.

Awe hell shucks miss fefe, thanks for enjoying this thread.

Is the orange in Florida? I remember seeing Orange shacks a loooog time ago in Cali.

(and the manatee's are the best addition Ive seen yet)

Do you have more pics to share?

@ Lindros..... I'm sure you have a few rural pics you could share too

Great pics FeFe.

And Notech, the moon shots are really cool.

Here is a moon, not a cool fall harvest one, but just a simple mid-summer full moon. Taken way up in northern Minnesota almost in Canada.



A herd of Bison. Blue Mounds State Park, southwestern MN. I was really far away.

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Originally posted by hornithologist

Great pics FeFe.

And Notech, the moon shots are really cool.

Here is a moon, not a cool fall harvest one, but just a simple mid-summer full moon. Taken way up in northern Minnesota almost in Canada.

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A herd of Bison. Blue Mounds State Park, southwestern MN. I was really far away.

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I like any full moon pics,

Thanks!

(sorry also I must steal a goose pic from your thread to finish the harvest moon pics)