Sometimes I get lucky, as in the photo above.
I was supposed to go into work to pack up my classroom and bring home curriculum materials I will need over the summer. But it is not a contractual day so I put it off. I watched the tapes of yesterday's soaps at 9 AM, showered at 11 AM, flickr'ed, blogged: in effect, I did everything I could think of to put it off.
Finally I began to close windows preparing to leave when a huge deer startled me across the road. I got my camera and crept out the door. But I had startled her, also, and she was hiding in the grass:
Finally she lept over the cattails to disappear into the woods. Another perfect shot that I missed. I turned and saw a robin hopping about at the edge of the yard and photographed her, getting the shot above.
I am going to leave now. I think the reason I am going to school is because I want lunch at Paddy's Snack Bar in Troy. A grumpy pair they are, but the pies are great. I also want more photos, especially of the mysterious purple flowers in the beaver meadow. They are probably lupine or loosestrife but they look iris-like in my zoom lens.
I have to get a move on:
Wingnut is coming Saturday. So much work and no time left!
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I was driving down the road yesterday morning when I saw a lone mallard drake by the side of the road quacking to something either in the ditch or the woods.
I stopped to photograph him and heard more ducks in the woods. There were two more mallards up there, running parallel to the road, quacking to Mallard in the road. They all became more agitated because I stopped but they did not stop.
Finally, the two in the woods came down the small hill, crossed the ditch, and all three ran down the road together to their farm.
The closer they got to the farm, the faster they waddled.
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Heads or Tails
