Introducing the Bobolink

Please click to enlarge these and get a better view!

The other day when we took the detour through the strip pit area, we saw this new bird. I had no idea what it was.
I don't remember how I found out what it was, I just know it was easier than normal for us to figure out.
It was so dark and dreary, and no time that day to even try to capture one, but last night we decided a quick drive through out there was in order. Let me tell you, there was not much happening. We did see pheasant, and heard lots more, and the usual red0-winged blackbirds were abundant. I really would hate to have to try to count them. It would be an impossible task.

I thought at first we were not going to see any sign of the bobolink, but came across 5 or 6 of them in some cattails. I got out of the Rav4 and was slowly walking up closer to them as they sang their little hearts out. It was such a joyous singing...you would just have to hear them to fully appreciate it. You can go here and scroll down about half way and there is a sound clip of their song.

Anyway, I am not overly impressed with these, yet happy to have at least caught these. They are images that have been cropped. I would have gotten closer if a truck had not came from the other direction and scared them away. As it passed they flew away...I seen one other one one more time, but no more.

We did see one other un-recognized bird last night...it was long-skinny necked out in the grassy area. The neck wasn't as long as a crane though. It was too far to see good, and the one flew...and I seen another poke its head up one time, but we watched and watched and did not see it again.

?? or Hog Heaven as suggested by Mary

This is an old image scanned in...I have tried and tried to come up with an appropriate title to the post or a name for the picture and keep coming up blank. One that just crossed my mind is 'Sides of Bacon.' Other than that I haven't thought of a thing. This image makes me smile. One couldn't have posed these pigs any better.
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I went this after lunch and went shopping for a little while with Sarah and Lorelei. And we will be babysitting Lorelei again tomorrow afternoon for a while.

I thought the rain was going to be over with by tomorrow but now rain is in the forecast for tomorrow as well. We didn't have a lot of rain today...just misted off and on. It was raining pretty steady as I came home from Sarah's....I was just happy it wasn't pouring down when we took Lorelei shopping.

So will close because I need to get up in the morn and go get our tomato plants....and have a couple other things to do before we go see Lorelei.

Not my camera, not your computer

These were taken the other day when we ran over to Arthur, Illinois. It never rained really hard at any time, but misted. And if it wasn't misting, you just felt the humidity around you. There was always this slight fog or mist close to the ground in the distance. It was not my camera not in focus, nor is it your computer needing adjusting.
Today has been a different story as far as the rain...it has rained A LOT today...and about the time I think it is done, it comes around again. Just a little bit ago, I actually had the thought that it might be over with for today, but instead in about ten minutes, the rain moved back in and it just poured for about 20-30 minutes. Now, it acts like the sun might want to come out, but I am not going to let it fool me for a minute.
Doesn't it look lonely? And flat. I never can get over how flat it is. I would love to know how far one can actually see. And it is certainly a different kind of seeing than growing up in Tennessee.

When I first came to Indiana from Tennessee, I sure missed my mountains. I was just always so lonesome for them...and I guess to this day even though I have come to love some of the things of Indiana, my heart still belongs to Tennessee. Every now and then we come to an area and it will remind us of this or that place in Tennessee...and just for a minute we can pretend to be home.