Welcome to Friday Foto Flogging, a place to share your photos and photography news. We were inspired by the folks at European Tribune who post a regular Friday Photoblog series to try the same on this side of the virtual Atlantic. We also thought foto folks would enjoy seeing some other websites so each week we’ll introduce a different photo website.
This week’s theme is Fall. Turn over an old leaf and show us how well seasoned you are.
Website of the Week: Fragments From Floyd is, according to its blog owner, “my writer’s notebook, image archive, and front porch. Pull up a chair. Pix and personal writer’s clippings served daily since 2002. Floyd County is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia, home of progressive life in the slow lane.”
AndiF’s Fall Out
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Out because it won’t be ignored
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olivia Falls for the Season
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Crow on the Ottawa River
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Ivy leaves changing colour
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Leaf abstract
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Wow, that’s really pretty. Where do you live? 😉
Are you hitting on this poor man?
Hiya Toni.
Did you mean to ask me if I was still beating my husband? ;P
Delete “on.”
Oh you poor thing … why is everybody always picking on you.
I’m so sorry Jim. There must be help, shelters…something.
Beautiful. Yeah, Andi would really love living in a place like that … 😉
Especially like the second one w/ the framing of the layers!
I agree, I really like the second one.
As you an Olivia both see, I had a great photographic adviser at my side.
I can’t resist posting this picture of Jim taking the picture that is pictured above.
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That’s great! 😀
gotta love the blaze orange hat…deer season and all.
apparently, the pack are on their own…bet they stick pretty close to home now.
It looks like the metamorphosing of a pond creature, ready to glissade across the surface.
Have you ever seen them in the egg stage.
Very nice tricolor contrast bands also showing numerous dimensional surfaces on one plane.
Exceptional
The branch and its reflections reminded me of the final shot in Microcosmos where a mosquito is emerging from the water as an adult.
is one of your most beautiful photos ever.
And I think the crow picture is one of the most perfectly executed and gorgeous ones you’ve taken. 🙂
I second your comment about the crow and olivia’s comment about your second photo. Actually, I love all the pics you both put up.
And I find the one of Jim taking his picture very amusing. 🙂
Me too.
I’ll second that!
I came to see foliage and wow, was I NOT disappointed.
We’ve lived out here 29 years and my husband and I both agree, this is the most beautiful fall we’ve ever had (and we’ve had a lot of beautiful falls).
Andif,
I spent hours trying to find words for the middle photo.
The subtle shades of plum are really striking, defying the word subtle.
A truly magnificent work of art.
Your second photo is really second to none.
Thanks Head — it means a lot to get praise from you.
Olivia,
I remember thinking of this photo before but now I know what I saw.
Check the candy bars in Canada, & look for a “Turkish Delight”.
Buy one & eat it for me please, but look at the colors inside, between bites.
Then call me.
The pastel pink flavors coming from the chocolate, right frame are delicious.
The bites getting smaller as they cascade away, are no less tasty, only better savored.
With a faint lemon background, it`s a confectioner`s dream.
Another fantastic photoflog last week everyone, keep them coming.
Not too much foliage in Central Florida, fall shows itself in other ways.
Sun bathed swamp
Hi Bob … that’s so different from anything I normally see. It’s amazing!
Thanks, you can find me traipsing around the swamp.
Nice one.
Am I wrong to think this surface is only very temporary & covers water?
Not wrong, it’s water with duckweed that’s beginning to thin as the sun goes lower in the sky. It will be half gone by the end of January-February and then begins growing again.
What a great picture! I keep looking for Pogo in it. I figure he moved south in his retirement.
I love the ephemeral feel of this picture — blink and the deer will be gone.
You caught it at the right moment Bob — there’s movement to it.
I did and she was, she really did not like the sound of the shutter.
We have the same thing happen up at the house all the time. A lot of them don’t even care when the dogs are outside but if they’re close enough to hear the camera, one picture is all we’ll get.
I took this shot through the window behind my computer monitor. She’d been around for about 10 minutes but the one picture was all she’d stick around for.
on your hypnosis techniques … 😉
Actually this pic is hypnotic on it`s own.
For an image with the only color being brown, or shades & tones thereof,
& obviously excluding black & white, there sure is a lot of motion in an image of stillness.
Beautiful.
You’re certainly giving me quite the swelled head today. Thanks again.
It’s as if she is saying, “Well, go ahead, take my picture.”
It’s Bambi!
Heh, looks like you had better luck with the wildlife that I did this week. Best to click through and view it large.
It’s funny, sometimes you can practically walk right up to them, sometimes not so much. She was eating something just off the path and was more interested in what she was eating than us.
the area where my folks live but getting the opportunity to get out there and try to shoot is the hard part. I’d love to just go up with the tele and sit in a tree for a few hours and see what walks by.
In the past, I’ve seen otters, hawks, Bald Eagles, owls, ducks, geese, herons (many are regulars on my folks ponds), foxes, turkeys, pheasants, and a variety of all different types of animals.
About an hour before I took that shot, I was in the woods behind their house and recently, there’s been about three different sized foxes in the area. Walking into the woods, within five minutes, there was the largest fox I’d ever seen about 60 feet ahead of me.
Unfortunately, within that 60 feet were probably about 100 trees and by the time I saw him and realized what it was, it was already too late to take the shot as he just disappeared behind some more trees, over a mound, and into tall grasses.
Wildlife are so hard to shoot, and you have two great shots. I don’t even try to shoot our semi-domesticated wildlife.
I just keep shooting and sometimes I get lucky. Both shots are the only one’s out of about fifteen that weren’t blurred by my movement or out of focus.
All this weeks shots were taken on a walk just a couple of weeks ago.
Bigger shots (800px) are here. BobX@deviantart.com
… the name of this plant? Is it some sort of grass? It’s really pretty.
It is a grass, bushy bluestem or bushy broomgrass. It’s everywhere this time of year.
I like shooting seed heads of grasses. They glow.
Here’s the one and only fall buttpumpkin:
I’ll bet Boran Boy loved that. 🙂
Funny … 🙂
Where’s its toolbelt? 🙂
Days are getting very short now.
What area of Paris is this?
I love the busy-ness of the street — the life.
This photo was taken one week ago, on Avenue St. Ouen, in the 18th arondissment, at the bottom of Montmartre.
It does an excellent job of pulling you right and making you feel like you’re sharing the sidewalk.
that I was there … for too short a time as well!
Love, love, love your city. 🙂
Sigh…I love Paris.
bokeh vines
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And the curly-cue vines.
Hi d.
nightfall
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showing those pink underbellies of the clouds.
We’ve had great skies in the morning on my way to school over the past couple of weeks. The lack of mountains in the background here are a big disappointment. Even without the mountains, your clouds’ pink underbellies are cool.
harvest
two lane
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Really good set of pictures, dada, but this last one is really wonderful with its soft gold hue and the deep shadows but what I especially like is the way the curve of the guardrail pulls my eye over to curved furrow in the field.
These are wonderful – just curious, were they taken in October? I have noticed the late afternoon light in October and April seems different than other times of the year – angle of the earth to the sun?
thanks, tampopo.
these were taken the day before thanksgiving several years ago, on the way to my brothers’ house for the holiday. took the 2lane, back roads…and a lot of pics.
great observation about light quality, especially after the equinox’s…the lower light is much warmer, plus these were shot in the late afternoon, with a relatively low sun. early and late day light is the warmest, year round, and it creates strong shadows, which are a definite asset.
I love the way the road and the shadow of the guard rail form a tangent.
When I traveled West 12 years ago, I got the chance to see endless fields full of those big hay wheels. I always wanted to go out and play on/in/with/near them. Never would’ve thought to take photos though at that time.
Just a reminder that if anyone has a theme they’d like to see, let us know. (And those who like to look only, feel free to leave a theme you’d be interested in seeing. 🙂
I am thoroughly enjoying this series – thanks again!
As to themes:
tools / machines / metal
work / play / rest
purple
black and white
patterns / stripes / circles / triangles
So easy to be greedy…
Thanks for all the great ideas!
Ouch … 😉
Thanks Tampopo!
We’ll throw them in the virtual hat to select from for next week … 🙂
I really like the machines suggestions. I’d also like a vote for found objects or the junk heap.
🙂
(I really like the machine one too. And found objects is neat!)
Olivia,
Almost everything I own is found.
Hey great idea to post that pic — if I do say so myself. 😉
Great framing.
Those leaves look like yellow flowers!
Great framing.
I actually feel pretty lousy today but Wednesday, I was feeling good enough to go spend some time in South Jersey at Batsto Village and various points in between there and my folks house about 30 mins south.
I love this week’s theme as I’ve got a ton of recent shots that fit so let me throw a few up.
They’re all so fine but the first photo really stands out for me. It’s an amazing capture and the color is gorgeous.
there where my folks live.
A week or so ago I shot this:
By Wednesday of this week, all the colors were gone from this driveway. There’s still colors all around the property but it does change quickly.
Nice set, the post and rail fence is the fave , nice light, like the focus effect.
it’s so much easier to control the focus to where you want it, whether I’m using an autofocus point (only three on the D60) or just doing it manually.
It comes in handy, though, when shooting graffiti around the city here as you can get some interesting shots where two side by side stickers will be vastly different in focus, putting a lot more ‘pop’ on the one I’m shooting.
I shot the fence several times with several different focus points but this one came out best.
Same three af points on the D40, which is what I’m shooting most. There’s five on my D1X, but with my limited hand/finger dexterity due to spinal cord injury I tend to rely heavily on the camera’s spot focus, hold the button on my focus point, and fire away. Plus the D1X is an anchor that takes great pix, but way too heavy to carry around.
I looked at the D80 which was arguably in my price range and although I liked the heft and feel of it, it seemed a little heavier than I wanted at the time.
I’m happy with the D60 overall. Not too light that I might forget it, but not so heavy that it really weighs me down.
It’s been a particularly nasty strain — sounds similar to what’s going around up here. I had it for about 8 weeks. I’m just starting to feel normal now.
On to the pix. Glad you didn’t forget, b/c these are gorgeous.
Love the overall colour running through these photos — the reds and browns and rusts. And your two waterfall shots are fantastic — really crisp too. And that leaf shot, Fall Colors. Beautiful.
With the kiddo in daycare/school a couple days a week, he tends to bring things home that bounce back and forth between the three of us and with the cooler weather, the windows tend to stay closed, thus exasperating the situation. We try to open the windows during the day to circulate fresh air in, wipe common surfaces down frequently, etc, but hey – it’s going into winter. Whaddya gonna do, right? Lol.
As for the pics, I’m really enjoying the fact that I got this camera when I did since this is one of, if not, my favorite times of year and it presents plenty of very colorful opportunities to take shots.
I’m taking lots of shots of just leaves lately. It’s an interesting exercise to see what works and what doesn’t. In fact, here’s one I just took yesterday. The colors are mixed, somewhat muted, due probably do an earlier fall from the tree and more time to decay but the small size of the leaves and many points is what attracted it to me in the first place. The lighting wasn’t the best and it was really an impromptu outing while Elliott was sleeping so it was a quick walk around the neighborhood.
This would make a killer jigsaw puzzle.
I think what you forgot to post were some of the other wonderful images linked to the spillway.
The symmetry in some of those shots & the shots themselves are superb.
I was wondering if you`d used the hillside office on your excursions.
The one opposite the wreathed barn.
A very nice sense of peace in your images.
behind the salvaged wreck of the boat that remains on display just behind the main office? I did get a shot of it with the tele but I didn’t like the final outcome.
I have the picture still, I just didn’t process it or upload it any.
One thing I’m struggling with regarding the new camera are the colors settings. Perhaps it’s a mixture of ISO/shutter/aperature or perhaps it’s a white balance issue but I find many of my shots need to be adjusted for saturation more than I had to do before with the point and shoot.
I’ll be talking to some friends within the next week or so, throwing up several duplicate shots showing before and after processing to try and find out where I’m going wrong.
If I’m going wrong. Which I suspect, somewhere, I am.
The “office” I was referring to was the tilting outhouse.
Your images are very nicely composed & shot.
The ones linked to the spillway are really superb .
You have close-ups of certain points on the spillway, forming curtained windows of rippled glass, that are crazy with symmetry & audible silence.
I`m mostly impressed that you now find the peace that was always there, in capturing the wonders of the place you once didn`t see or feel.
Very good photography.
Lol. Oddly, the outhouses are (to the best of my knowledge) no longer outhouses but storage for either electrical or HVAC (maybe) equipment.
Either that or the outhouses there hum, strongly.
;]
Glad to hear it’s not the well house.
I`m sorry to have mixed up the outhouse as yours. That was a shot from Indianadems. Everything else I mentioned still stands strong, though.
Tell you what…
So I lived with my folks from roughly 91 to late 2000, if I recall correctly. For a while, my sister lived with us as well but she moved away and then it was just my parents and I, a fresh new teenager going through the struggles of life, blah blah blah and I can’t tell you how at that time of my life, I absolutely hated where I lived because it was so damn quiet. You need a car to get anywhere, there wasn’t much to do aside from being a mall rat during the off-season and going to the beach in the summer.
Now, however, whenever I go down there, there’s almost nothing I like more than just going off by myself into the woods, maybe a mile or more in, finding a path onto the marsh, and just staying there…
…listening…
It’s almost deafening, in a matter of speaking, going into the woods, stopping (crunching leaves, etc) and letting the sounds of nature overtake yourself.
The chirp of various chickadees, titmice and other small birds, squawks of bluejays, pecking of woodpeckers, early evening whooting of owls, screeching of hawks, shuffling of leaves under the feet of squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits or the silent trot by of a distant fox (as mentioned above), the rustling of leaves still attached to trees in a gentle breeze as well as the slow aged creak of branches on the older trees or the rubbing of branches together…
Wow. I haven’t done any creative writing in a long time. Wonder where all that came from…
;]
Great shots all but my favorites are the ones with the water going over the dam and the fence. The second dam shot is especially neat. it captures the water falling in sharp focus but blurs the water in the stream adn the splashes — neat. Fences are just fun to shoot.
you linked, especially! Really adds to the perspective of distance and depth into the shot, with such a long fence into an expansive background.
I really need to re-activate my Flickr account. I had an interesting shot of pylons in the water off of Strathmere, NJ that I wanted to post in response to the fence shot you linked. It kind of had the same effect but poor ass me will have to wait a little while longer.
nice and rainy and dreary, just the way I like it.
Really well composed photo — the glow on the mosaic tiles do a really nice job of complementing the glow of the leaf while the patterns and colors also adding a lot of interest.
cloisonne
Beautiful.
So much depends
upon a red leaf
glazed
with rain water
on the blue tiles.
Hi SN.
The leaves look so delicate, yet they are still hanging on.
On the west coast, in Malibu, seasons are ill-defined by time.
In the fall here, the season is often defined by fire, winter, by floods & slides.
At this present moment, fires, rage & devastate the Santa Barbara area.
Santa Anna winds, a defining condition of fall here, are blowing these flames along. Called the “Sundowners”, also, many are anxiously awaiting sundown to see if these winds pick up again. Lets hope not.
Here is what fall is to me here. One of the things about the fires is that they do photoshop the sunsets, more than I could artificially do.
I did include a pic for Andif. Emperor Blenniticus Novembris, from the Fall of the Roman Empire.
Enjoy the fall & I`ll see you next trip.
🙂
Think my new favourite is _DSC0064 — the one w/ the plant hairs (5th one) … love those hairs!
And the first one w/ the palm tree silhouettes. And the LATE AFTERNOON (2nd from bottom) … it looks like lace.
I know I should be going for the blenny (and my heart did go zing when I saw it) as my favorite but DSC0064 was so fantastic it stole my heart away.
I guess it figures.
Andif & Olivia, you both picked the same number image, but it appears that I have two different images with the same number.
At the risk of being a little self aggrandizing I`m going to imagine you picked different images with the same number respectively, but I could be wrong. I`ll imagine that Andif picked the sunset “eye” with a cloud eyebrow, & a stream of tears flowing out of the lagoon.
I wonder if you both could say you`d never seen those images previously, as far as you knew/remembered?
Ah you know me well — I picked the “eyebrow”. And no, I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen it before.
At the risk of defaming your capacity to remember, I`d say you have.
See link below, 1st comment.
You would have had to go to the link, to see the one you chose as a favorite.
It is another image of the same shot, in the same set.
I remembered that you`d liked it, & that is why I suggested that that was the one you were talking about.
http://frenchpirate.blogspot.com/2008/01/pier.html
Okay I’m forgetful but consistent. 🙂
Oh and being consistent I still like the shot I picked as my favorite better than the one posted here. 😉
Seeing as I’ve commented on them on your flickr stream 14 and 8 mos ago … 🙂 And they’re still my favs! My eye was drawn to them right away.
The hair leaf one – _DSC0064 – I think I might have seen, but not sure.
Second comment
http://frenchpirate.blogspot.com/2008/02/cupids-tail.html
I thought it was so, but wasn’t as sure as the other two. 🙂
I was just kidding.
Thank you, also, for putting such a nice venue at the disposal of such a nice bunch.
in the venue … 🙂
Btw, any requests for themes?
That was quite a list by Tampopo, but I`m quite confident that I have a little something of almost anything.
For that reason I couldn`t really come up with a theme, unless I came up with hundreds of them.
Machines I like, though.
I know someone already mentioned they liked that one too. Ahem.
The leaf with the backlit hairs is stellar. Actually they’re all stellar, but that one is a super nova!
On the white trees: how did you get the effect on the first one, and is the second one a eucalyptus?
The first was in the spray range of a snow making machine up in Big Bear, I think.
Or there may have been a wind-whipped rain. In either case, the branches are covered in ice.
As for the second tree, it`s a Malaluka, at least that`s how I`ve heard it called. It`s also called a “Paperbark” & yes I believe it`s a eucalyptus of some kind. If I had the choice of which kind of tree to slam my head into, this is definitely the one I`d pick. It has layers & layers upon layers of tissued bark, at least as thick & as soft as a new roll of toilet paper.
With that image I selected all but the blue sky, & desaturated it of color, basically to black & white, although it is as white as this naturally.
The haired “leaf” is a seed pod of a Monkey Clock flower I think they`re called.
and leave it at that?!
There’s simply too much to say about these photos from the colors, to the shadows, to the details in the more macro shots, the life shots, the contrast of the white trees with deep blue skies…
Superb, all around.
I say that about the photoflogs every week.
That’s a very tough act to follow!
From around our neighborhood –
Such a pretty time of the year — great red barn! Looks like they’re ready for winter too w/ the wreath on the door. 😀
Hey that looks familar. 🙂 Really nice shots, especially the last one — maybe you should take a second job working for the tourist bureau.
The city girl in me just adores barn photographs.
Thanks everybody! I was just thinking, I don’t believe I would take a chance on patronizing the “country comfort station” in the barn photo. It looks as if it might take off down the hill at any moment.
When we were in Yellowstone, we’d suddenly, in the middle of nowhere, encounter a traffic jam. After a couple of days, we realized that elk, bison, or a bear had wandered near enough to the road to cause all cars to stop. I think your photos show why that happens some times in Brown County.
“Gorgeous” can be an ill and overused term – but all these photos represent the word
at its’ very best – amazing too! Thank you all for this end of the week treat.
I hope you don’t mind a few more?
Love the colour against the grey.
You Canadians will go to the lengths of taking a gorgeous photo to get that red maple leaf everywhere.
Why do you say that?
and there’s no putting back together again. But that’s probably okay because I don’t think even Andrew will ever be able to out-cute that picture.
This is, at the moment, my all-time favorite shot. Sorry about your machine, I hope no one got hurt.
My ovaries are crying….
Is there medicine for that?
LOL, that is so adorable … look of pure joy … 😀
happy, jolly, merry, sunny, joyous, lighthearted, in good spirits, bubbly, exuberant, ebullient, cheery, smiling, mirthful, radiant; jubilant, overjoyed, thrilled, ecstatic, euphoric, blissful, on cloud nine, elated, delighted, gleeful; jovial, genial, good-humored; informal chipper, chirpy, peppy, over the moon, on top of the world, upbeat; dated gay; formal jocund; literary blithe, cheerful, merry, jolly, festive
Not one of these is even close to that face. All of them together don’t even express it.
Wonderful! What Jim said and very much more. You’re so very lucky and Andrew is too.
This fall will forever be know as the autumn of Andrew’s leaf obsession.
Great set of photos! Our littlest grandchild was 3 last week, so we’ve been reintroduced to the fun kid stuff over the past few years. Yeah, your little guy is way off the cute meter!
He is so big, Toni! They grow so fast when they’re someone else’s… 🙂
They grow even faster when you’re the one who has to keep buying clothes that fit.
I was the queen of yard sales when my boys were that age.
I thought this would be of use for you.
From the D40/40x/60 Club wiki
And check Nikonians for further updates on lens availability.
Waddaya mean Fall? Spring has sprung Downunder.
Pink Fingers orchid
A Pink Fingers orchid in relation to my finger – just so you can get a sense of how tiny they are.
(Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.)
Hey you!!!
Hey yourself.
Hey Keres!
Who knew antipodean orchids had incisors and molars. Great photos.
Some of them do strike me as a bit ravenous as well.
Unfortunately, because of the continuing drought this year’s orchids flowered and died in a very short time. Less than a week for some of them. It will be interesting to see what does and doesn’t come up as Spring and Summer progress. We’ve already lost several mature trees, and Australia is a land well adapted to drought. So, it’s a bit scary to see some of the old-timers succumb. And, I suspect that this years fire season is going to be a really bad one. We’ve already watched the peak 2km to the north of us burn for three days.
I love being shamed for my hemisphere-ism.
How are you? How’s everybody and everything at the home place?
I’m OK, but I’ve had a pretty rough patch. My doctor just refered me to a specialty pain clinic at the main hospital in Hobart. We’ll see if anything they have to offer succeeds in some way – which would be great since almost all treatments thus far have failed.
Add to that Albert’s demise and Luna getting very ill from a disastrously failed attempt at artificial insemination and I just haven’t felt at all chatty for awhile.
On the plus side, we have a new bunny “Hector” who is a settling in nicely. And Luna is coming into heat again, so I’m making arrangements to send her to Adelaide later this week for a natural breeding – which hopefully well result in oodles of adorable puppies in a few months time. I’ve already got “takers” for an averaged-sized litter (which is around 8, but 10-15 pups is not uncommon).
Also, I tend to suffer from SAD, so Spring with its long sunny days are definitely helping to raise my spirits.
I’m so sorry to hear about your health problems (and Luna’s) and Albert’s death — the world best bunny will all have a special place in my heart. I hope you get some good news for the new doctor and that all goes well with Luna.
We got a new puppy in July. She’s a beagle-boxer mix so we named her Bebo. I just happen to have a nice picture of her and Sniff over in the cafe.
I can see that she has loads of character all the way from here.
I think it was late June/early July when Albert had some more teeth removed and Luna had surgery to clean out a very nasty infection. After that our house was a veterinary nursing home for a month or so. Then, just as Albert seemed to finally be recovering from his twin-surgical ordeal, he died suddenly of a heart-attack. Fortunately Luna recovered very nicely (though she lost the pregnancy).
Bebo has loads of character and even more energy. She’s also wonderfully loose-jointed — her body just sprawls.
That had to be hard to have so many problems going on at once. I hope that alpacas didn’t have any problems to further complicate things.
I know you’ve spelled it differently, and couldn’t have had this book in mind, but Beebo Brinker was one of the very first Lesbian Pulp fiction characters. So, if your girl turns out a bit butch, you’ll know why.
Well she has been extremely interested in humping my leg, so the name might be very prescient. OTOH, she’s also tried to hump Sniff so perhaps she’s bi. 😉
so perhaps she’s bi
Dogs are definitely omni-, as in omni-sexual, omni-vore, omni-present, etc.
But, if it’s Bebo humping Sniff (and not usually the other way around), she’s definitely butch. 😉
Luna only humps males to try and give them the idea. Alas, the males are always neutered (I keep her clear of intact ones) and have no idea what she’s on about.
Hmm, wonder if I should get her a Doc Martin dog collar … and that leads to all sorts of places I think I won’t go.
KERES! is that you? It’s so good to see you back!
Welcome, welcome welcome. It is so good to see you back!!!!!
You’ll make me blush. Good to see you as well.
I’m just glad to see you back. I’ve missed you very much, and OH BTW how’s Albert? ;D
Albert, alas is no longer with us. He died July 25, of a heart attack. I was home when it happened and he went very quickly.
Hector (who was coincidentally born on July 25) joined our household two months later. He’s a chocolate mini-lop with otter markings, very cute, and just entering the terribly naughty stage (yesterday, my favorite book of poetry got partially eaten – I suspect this may have been revenge for our neutering him two weeks ago). He was one of a large litter of eight kittens (the proper term of baby rabbits), so he eats like there’s competition and will bolt his food as fast as he gets it, or run away with anything he can carry, like a small carrot. Right now he’s sitting in the sun and swaying lightly as he snoozes.
I think Hector is going to have some awfully big bunny-shoes to fill. Are pictures forthcoming? 🙂
Of course there will be pictures.
As for filling Albert’s sizable thumpers, I’m fairly certain that he left Hector a users manual somewhere in the bunny palace (aka the laundry room) entitled “Molding your Minions: ten easy steps to household domination (and dealing with the dog)”.
There’s nothing like baby rabbit pictures! Get them going Keres. 🙂
Here’s a baby picture to hold you over. This is from when we first got Hector and he was about seven and a half weeks old. Since then, he’s easily doubled in size and his baby coat has shed out. His adult coat is more of a rich chocolatey brown. Also, the orange edge markings and nape of his neck typical of the “otter” gene have become much more pronounced in the last few weeks.
He has much more of a “hare” build than any of our other lop rabbits.
What a cutie!
How is Luna adjusting to the new member of the household?
They are doing very well together. It’s taken Hector quite some time to not just bolt every time he sees Luna (and given that her mouth is bigger than he is, who can blame him?). Albert was absolutely fearless, even when a baby, so we’ve all had to adjust our behavior to Hector’s bolt-first-ask-questions-later response. He’s gotten much, much better in the last few week. As evidenced by earlier today when I left one bedroom door open because Luna was asleep in the doorway. I figured her sprawled there would keep Hector out (and away from the bookshelves), but no, a few minutes later I could hear the sounds of bunny teeth striping off bit of cardboard from a storage box under the bed.
What Jim said again! Those ears though. Magnificent!
Hector is adorable. And I’m sure somewhere Albert is grumbling about those darn young whippersnappers. 😉
I’ll miss Albert but have to admit that I’m already smitten
Albert was the cutest rabbit I’ve ever seen.
Keres! It’s so good to see you-you’ve been missed around here.
I’m sorry that things haven’t been going so well, and especially for the loss of Albert. Hope that the doctor has some good news for you soon, and that Luna has a nice healthy litter of pups before too long.
Oh my goodness. I did’nt know something was wrong with Albert. I’m so sorry.
Do you want me to whoosh that away so you can repost?
CG please do.
Don’t worry about it. See above.
Keres thank you. I’m going to miss Albert. He was always one of my favorites.
Hey, keres!
Hope your hiatus is over and that more critter (and home improvement) blogging will occur.
Hi keres! Thanks for the lovely shots from down under. Good to see you posting:)
Keres, it’s so nice to see you again. Thanks for the pic.
hi keres, delurking to join the chorus in saying that it’s great to see you. Sorry to hear of your recent losses and obstacles. A big virtual hug to you and Imogen
Keres is finally back home. You were missed constantly.
I hope your new clinic can help you toward a swift recovery. No doubt a prolonged period of submission to bunny domination is the perfect prescription.
p p p p photos p p please!
Welcome back Keres, & I`m very sorry about your loss & troubles.
Your baby bunny pic is the greatest.