Best of FFF/Nature Friday - Sunny's Winter Woes

We are wrapping up "Relaxed January"!  Next week we will be back to our normal posting schedule. In the meantime Sunny is wrapping up the month with a Winter Woe from February 2024 for January's FFF/NF. We are using YAM Aunty's new 2025 banner, isn't it pawesome?!

Welcome to the wonderful Friday each month where Nature Friday comes together with YAM Aunty's FFF!!  Make sure to visit YAM Aunty HERE to get the Rulez and join the FFF fun!! 

 

This week I(Rosy) am letting Sunny voice her opinion about Winter this year.

A Winter Woe

a short poem by Sunny

 

Many of my friends would like Winter to stay

But I myself think it needs to go away.

When it first arrived I enjoyed the snow,

But now it's time for the snow to go.

You see, with all the snow I cannot scoop

The frozen, delicious bunny poop.

 Instead when hunting after my morning snoozle

I  proceed to get a snowy moozle!

So, to those who want their Winter to stay,

I am sending our snow your way!

   

 

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page. 

A Game of Cat and Mouse on Backyard Wildlife Wednesday

Welcome to Backyard Wildlife Wednesday, that day of the week we let Mama share some footage TC(our Trail Camera) has taken in our backyard. You are not going to believe what we saw when we were helping Mama go through TC's footage....We have KITTIES that prowl our yard at night...Mama says she wishes they wouldn't use our yard as a litter box(because some tan puppy likes kitty "snacks"), and she's not sure how she feels about them hun...

Well, take a look for yourself:

Stay tuned next week for more on the Kitties nemisis' Benjy and Frankie

 

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Best of Nature Fridays - Silver Thread Parkway

 During the rest of "Relaxed January", we will be reposting some of our most viewed Nature Friday posts of 2024. This August 2024 post, is one of MY favorite 2024 memories from my ride with the pawrents along the Silver Thread Parkway during our visit to Creede, Colorado.

 Welcome to Nature Friday, where we get to meet new friends and maybe share a picture or two of what nature looks like around Blogville. 

 

This week, I'm going to show you some pictures of a beautimous drive the pawrents and I took along the Silver Thread Scenic Byway.

 It was a beautiful morning when we hit the road. 

 It's about 50 miles(or 80km) from Creede to Lake City, and Daddy and I figured it would be about an hour's drive

BUT

  

 

 We forgot we had Mama, the photo bug, in the car. She insisted we stop at every turnout to admire the views. Daddy and I didn't mind too much...I mean, look at this view!

 

 

 The Silver Thread Byway started off in the olden days as a stagecoach path through the mountains.

 

Can you imagine traveling over these mountain on a horse drawn stagecoach? 

 

 

 It wasn't until 1968 that they paved the road for passenger vehicles.

 Slumgullion Summit is the highest point on the drive. The view is breathtaking and the air is so very fresh and clean!

 

 

The highlight of the trip for me was visiting North Creek Falls. We all went on a hike to view the beautiful waterfall from different angles!

 

 

 All the green surrounding the waterfall was so pretty

 

 

 It amazed the pawrents how much water came over the cliff from, what looked to be, such a small stream!

 

 

 Then, they realized that there was a lot of water in this part of Colorado.  There is the Rio Grande River.....

...and Lake San Cristobal,  plus all the little streams and 

lakes in between!
 

 

 It was a most beautiful ride, with views too beautiful for words!

Here is a video Mama made:

As always, feel free to visit our YouTube Channel HERE

 

 I really enjoyed our journey! 

We hope you all enjoy some nature this weekend!

  

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Quail Cuteness on Backyard Wildlife Wednesday

From Mama: Major apologies for the lack of the Nature Blog Hop last Friday. We were traveling and, to be honest, it totally slipped my mind, No worries tho,  it's already set up for this week.

Welcome to Backyard Wildlife Wednesday, that day of the week we let Mama share some footage  TC(our Trail Camera) has taken in our backyard. This week, in honor of relaxing month, we are featuring a relaxing video of some Quail Cuteness.

Quails are one of Mama's favorite TC birds(can you tell BOL?)!

 

We are joining  Comedy Plus for the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop! Thanks to Sandee for hosting!

Best of Nature Fridays - Cherry Blossoms

During the rest of "Relaxed January", we will be reposting some of our most viewed Nature Friday posts of 2024. This March 2024 post was one of our most viewed. I think it is because of my cute cherry blossom smile....

  

Howdy effuryone! Welcome to Nature Friday, where we can meet some new friends and maybe share a picture or two of what nature looks like around Blogville. 

This week, we are letting Mama show off some of the pictures she took of the famous Washington DC Cherry Blossoms.

The pawrents were amazed to have temperatures in the 60s most of the week they were in DC. Between the warm temperatures and rain, the cherry blossoms are making an early appearance!

They're were lots of beautiful pinks and the grass was so green!!

If you know Mama, you know she found some artsy things to frame with the pink blooms

Mama says that cherry blossom pink might just be as pretty as Carribean Blue....

I told her it was much prettier, of course Pink IS my most favorite color!

While the streets looked so pretty lined with pink, Mama said a lot of the cherry blossoms hadn't started to bloom yet or were just starting to bloom

Like this tree along the "National Mall"

In front of the Washington Monument!

All in all, even the beginning of cherry blossom season

looks beautiful and it must be something beautiful to see 

when it's in full swing.

Have you ever been to Washington DC during cherry blossom season?

We hope you all get out and see some blooms this weekend!

  

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Squirrel Shenanigans on Backyard Wildlife Wednesday

Welcome to Backyard Wildlife Wednesday, that day of the week we let Mama share some footage  TC(our Trail Camera) has taken in our backyard. 

With the birdy fountain closed for the Winter, Mama has moved TC to a spot under the bird feeders. We were sitting next to Mama when we saw the following footage......

Can you BELIEVE that sneaky squirrel? 

 

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Rubber Duckie Aaawwwws

 

This year we told Mama we would put  up with Rubber Ducky Day photo shoots this year on one condition.....

No posing in the bath tub!!

Mama agreed...as long as we didn't mind her "transporting" us near water.

We told her as long as we didn't get wet, we didn't care where she posed us, BOL!

Happy Birthday Rubber Duckie!

 

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Awww Monday Blog Hop!

Best of 2024 Nature Friday - Happily Every After

 During the rest of "Relaxed January", we will be reposting some of our most viewed Nature Friday posts of 2024. This June 2024 post, in addition to being one of our most viewed, is one of Mama's favorite posts of the year.

Today we wanted to share a story Mama told us the other day. She says the story is true, but we did not view any of the characters with our own eyes and cannot confirm or deny the validity of Mama's "fairy tail"

Once upon a time there was a little raccoon who, while on an evening fence walk with its Mama, fell and got his foot stuck in between the slats in the backyard of two cute little Lhasa Apso princesses.

The Mama of the cute Lhasa princesses, while not letting them see the raccoon, freed the cute woodland creature using a shovel to loosen the slat of the fence and release his foot.

Sunny: Rosy, how come we didn't know any of this happened.

Rosy: I still think it's a fairy tail Sunny, but there was that day last week where Mama only let us go outside on leash..but I don't know how we could have missed seeing or smelling the little guy.

After his foot was released, the cute little raccoon went and hid behind 

a hose keeper to escape the sun and maybe to hide from the fierce Lhasa Apso sisters that were rumored to occupy the backyard.

The raccoon hung out behind the hose keeper all afternoon. The Mama of the Lhasa Apso warrior princesses got a little worried that the story was not going to have a happy ending but she left the little raccoon alone hoping he would move along during the evening(raccoons are nocturnal). 

The trail camera was set up to keep an eye on the little raccoon and what happened that night was amazing. 

Just look at this little video and see....

You can also view the movie HERE on our YouTube Channel too!

That's right, Mama raccoon came to retrieve the baby, and we are very thankful to say every raccoon lived happily ever after. 

I'm  still am not convinced it's a true story though. Come on Sunny, let's head outside to sniff around that hose keeper!

  

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

 

 

 

Scrub Jay on Backyard Wildlife Wednesday

 Welcome to Backyard Wildlife Wednesday, that day of the week we let Mama share some footage  TC(our Trail Camera) has taken in our backyard. Today, we're going take a look at a cute little Scrub Jay who visited the fountain last Autumn.
 

He visited in the Autumn of 2023 too.  He doesn't stick around long, but Mama is always glad when he stops by!

We are joining  Comedy Plus for the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop! Thanks to Sandee for hosting!