Today was another day where I didn’t get a lot of deer photos, but I did get a few good ones.  Hungry Girl was obliging in letting me get my favourite kind – silly ones!

I have noticed that when Hungry Girl and Barbecue come over, I get very few good pictures of Barbecue, but I always seem to get lots of good ones of Hungry Girl! :-)

Here’s another…

*childish giggle*

With things warming up today, I decided to take the camera and go for a walk after supper.  There’s still too much snow around the yard, so I went on the road.

On my way out, I discovered that the cats just LOVE those tire marks in the driveway, left behind by the movers.  Rolando Moon was enjoying one of them as I came out.

She was rolling around in there in absolute ecstasy!  My daughters did a burn while I was walking and told me that they saw other cats rolling around in them, and rubbing their faces in the little wall of ground between the divots.  Too funny!

One of the areas I passed on the road brought many happy memories.

It certainly doesn’t look like much now.  It’s just three sections of the ditch that are somewhat wider and deeper, so we called it the Three Ponds.  I spent so many happy hours of my childhood, slogging around barefoot in the water, often accompanied by our dog.  He fetched rocks, not sticks, and if you threw a rock into the water, he would actually dive in and get it.

We had to be careful doing that, when he’d go after rocks even in the deep water that weren’t intended for him to fetch!

He also would fetch logs.  Which is a story for another time!

In the Three Ponds, I remember looking out for frogs’ eggs, and when they finally showed up, it felt like I’d found an absolute treasure.  I would go back day after day to look at them, watching for the tadpoles to hatch.  And then I would watch the tadpoles.  I remember seeing all kinds of interesting things in the water, including bright red mites that looked like the tiniest of spiders, and walking bits of plants that I later learned were caddisfly larva.  I’d pull up bullrushes (aka cattails) and pretend I knew how to weave baskets out of the leaves (I never figured it out!), and in the fall, when their seeds were starting to come loose, I’d make big piles of the fluff on the road and wait for a car to come by and puff right through it.

It was such fun!  I look forward to seeing how pond-ish the area still is, once all the snow is gone.

Farther down the road is a sort of driveway into our field.  I don’t know that there’s a gate there or not, but there is a gap in the fence.  This is part of the farm my parents rented out when they retired from farming.

This falls into the “why this here?” category.

Just a big ol’ tractor tire, leaning on a tree, with what looks like an inner tube draped over it.  My guess is the guy renting it had to change the tire on his tractor in the field, leaned it there and never came back for it.

I wonder how long it’s been there?

I just thought this picture was pretty and wanted to share it with you. :-)

Walking past the wooded section of the farm, I’m seeing a lot of dead trees fallen down.  The old cattle shelter has long since collapsed, and looks like it’s been partly cleared away.  There are also a lot of parked vehicles in what used to be the hay yard.

Once the snow clears, I’m going to have to take a good look at what all is there. It would be nice if all this stuff could be cleared away, including what’s stored in the barn, so that we could maybe have animals in there again.

But that is years down the road.

The Re-Farmer