Recent photos

Our youngest daughter is away at camp along with her digital camera. Since I have yet to get a digital camera of my own, I've been stuck with using my phone, which I find to be rather unsatisfactory. Oh, well. Here are a few scenes from the last few days.

I already posted pictures of a turtle laying eggs, but I came across another one.

Another view. There's good eating on one of those...

Juvenile Canada geese wading in water that ought not to be there, overflowing the banks of Lake Monona. (Madison's river and lakes have been spilling over their banks since the beginning of June. You may have read about some of the flooding that has occurred. Of course, if you live around here, you've experienced it.) Those geese may still be cute, but before long they'll be delinquent thugs - swearing, smoking cigarettes and excreting everywhere. There's good eating on one of those...

More water that ought not to be there. This time the Yahara River.

The Yahara River bike path under East Washington Avenue is now passable, but damp. For a few weeks it was under water.

I saw this turkey moseying through the UW Arboretum yesterday. There's good eating on one of those...

Gah! It's looking at me!
You guessed it! There's good eating on one of those...

Turtle sightings

Mother's Day, 2008 at the UW Arboretum.




From a different angle.




This beast was a good two feet long or more. Unfortunately, it was also dead.




Today at the bark park. It appeared to be laying eggs right in the middle of the trail.



Hard work.