So, I Went For a Walk

Today's MEGA-LAUNDRY DAY.

But... I wish I was back out on my walk along the neighboring swamp pond instead.  Only a tad bit smellier, and less frequented by humans.  Though it does see oodles of traffic from deer, coyotes, and my dogs.  (And at night, you wouldn't believe the amount of frog activity there in the evenings for the past month!)  But not so much in the way of people.  It sorta feels like my own Walden Pond...my own private sanctuary.

Here's what I found:

(Mama Owl on her nest.)

(Papa Owl keeping watch in a nearby tree.)

(These remains are from a young male deer.  Apparently he's been gone probably longer than we've lived here.  Explains all the impromptu chew bones that have arrived in my yard, thanks to the four-legged critters!)