I am running out of photos, so please send in any good ones you have. Thanks!
Today’s batch is from reader Ken Phelps, whose IDs are indented. There are several photos and then a salacious video of otters at the bottom. Click the photos to enlarge them.
The first shot is a Vanilla Leaf plant (Achlys triphylla) grimly hanging on to life last October.
The deer photos were taken in July some years ago. It was lounging on the unmanicured mossy rock on which our bedroom is perched. It was watchful but unperturbed. The shot labeled Deer Pose was taken through the bedroom French door. A slight reflection gave it a slightly gauzy boudoir look.
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A close look at the petals of a very yellow flower whose identity I do not recall.
Four mushrooms crowded together:
Ice on a gravelly puddle. Good for a bit of pareidolia:
More in the pareidolia vein. Knobbly ice forming on a rocky outcrop, converted to a B&W negative image. A lot of faces, many of them canine, hidden in there:
Not wildlife, but our older dog Dixie trying to look sorry about making, and then rooting about in, a mudhole in the garden
And listen to the noise of these mating otters! (Sound up!)
Here is a link to a video I took of a pair of river otters engaging in what I assume is conjugal bliss. Filmed while we were moored at the wharf at Newcastle Island, Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Ah, the facial-recognition is fun – segues to beautiful and intriguing seamlessly…
Thank you for sharing!
They otter get a room [drum riff]
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Gotta love old(er) dog Dixie! Thanks.
Nice variety!
Nice photos. And thanks for the otter sex. I’ll set my telephone’s ringtone to it. (Just kidding.)
Yes, lots of faces and dogs in the ice!
Nice photos!
I was looking for Jesus in the ice in the puddle but I think I see Casper the friendly ghost instead.
Dixie looks like a loving dog!
Thanks for sharing!
Dixie is a sweetheart, with a fairly eclectic set of genes.
Otters – To me that looks like attempted forced copulation with the female objecting strenuously, so I’m guessing the commentary is sarcastic? Great video.
Love the knobbly ice and the young buck and who could be upset with that sweet canine face.
Awh, give those poor otters some privacy!