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Very nice.

What grace in that bird!

Not anymore. Foot traffic only. The road ends right on the other side. A walking path was put in so people could walk to the shopping center nearby.

Nice looking bridge. Can you drive over it?

Capture One (for Sony) came with my camera…

Check out ON1, too.

Poms can be quite amazing. Like little foxes really. Is this a regular or mini? I like to call them all “pocket poms”. Easy to bring along unless they bark a lot.

@ohiobarbarian I’m sorry, you’re right. The live oak loses its leaves. I’m sitting right here in my office looking and one. Duh. The blue oak off my deck keeps its leaves.

@nvwino I’m not sure, but I am sure it is a deciduous variety. For all intents and purposes, the other oaks are evergreen in their oaksy way. Live oaks are common in central and south Texas, so I’m familiar with them from living there. In Ohio, they, and the other types of oak you describe, don’t exist. They are all deciduous here, with…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian We have Valley oaks, black oaks, blue oaks and live oaks. Live oaks have a larger and more crenellated leaf. The other three have smaller leaves, most with pointy points; the blue oak has a blue cast to the leaves. Tree structure is similar in all of them, although the bark is a bit different. All keep their leaves.

We have another…[Read more]

Valley oaks? Are those similar to live oaks? They sure look like them. Live oak just means an oak tree that never has bare branches in fall and winter; new green leaves replace the old ones immediately every year.

@djean111

@nvwino

A squirrel fell on my Miss Charlotte, evidently miscalculated a jump.  Both dog and squirrel seemed shocked, and took off in different directions.

@glinda Apparently Kuma and I bonded over the week. When his owner went to the office for a minute, he elected to stay with me rather than go with her, much to her astonishment. Of course it could just have been a squirrel on the arbor that kept him near me.

@elias39 Kuma is a very smart dog. Too smart for his own good… and certainly too smart for mine.

@djean111 Kuma killed his 38th (ground) squirrel this year… apparently just for me. They are really a plague. It’s a wonder the massive oaks don’t just disappear into the earth. The squirrels seem to prefer the oak roots within which to build their colonies.