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Photos from our hikes...  

kzoopair 73M/71F
8614 posts
4/2/2015 6:22 pm
Photos from our hikes...

It's been a couple of weeks...spring is coming, but it comes slowly here at times.











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demonicsexkitten 49F
10694 posts
4/2/2015 6:40 pm

Great photos Thanks for sharing


kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
4/2/2015 6:40 pm

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It'll be another month- almost- before we get much here. We'll see a few buds, and serviceberry is alway early. But spring comes in May. Some stuff will sprout. It will be the last week in April or the first week in May before it pops here. I remember snow on 3 May 1977. I hope my wild plums do well this year- those blossoms are beautiful.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
4/2/2015 6:42 pm

I'm glad you liked them Kitten. I sure have fun taking them. I feel like a different man out in the woods.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/2/2015 7:32 pm

    Quoting mcmaniac:
    That tree looks like it's giving you the "OK" hand sign!
That's a cool tree! It had two trunks and the west trunk had that big knothole in it that was also grown into the east trunk.When the one trunk went down it left the burl around the knot standing. Really rare! It left the entire round burl still attached! The knot hole is big, too- maybe two feet from top to bottom.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/2/2015 7:45 pm

    Quoting oral4ya765:
    The OK tree is awesome! And I always amazed at how well deer blend in to the woods... they are magicians!
That deer was standing in the open in the trail fifty feet in front of us! I didn't even have my camera out of the bag, let alone turned on. The second I turned it on he moved off into the brush! I swear he was just waiting to piss me off.

I missed a shot during this time that broke my heart. I was looking for the muskrat at the land bridge and he came swimming underwater right below me. The sun was just right so that there was no reflection on the water and I had a perfect shot of him swimming along but I couldn't get it focused in time. Gaaaah! It was so cool the way he glided along just eight or ten inches under the surface, with barely a ripple.

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spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
4/3/2015 3:22 am

That's a close encounter with a snake!
It's great to see the photos of your wood.


kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
4/3/2015 8:46 am

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Thank you, and you're welcome!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/3/2015 8:51 am

    Quoting spunkycumfun:
    That's a close encounter with a snake!
    It's great to see the photos of your wood.
It's been a bit cold for snakes so far, but we had a day in the sixties and we heard frogs in the bog along that trail. There is an old farm dump site just east of the trail and I was poking around in there. There's a lot of broken glass- old milk bottles and stuff so I wouldn't let Gracie go in there. I must have nearly stepped on that garter snake because he slithered away from me and then froze, otherwise i'd have missed him.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/3/2015 9:03 am

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We only have one venomous snake, the Massasauga. They aren't very aggressive and might be dangerous to a child or a dog but you have to pretty much beg them to bite you. We were in good habitat for Massasauga so I was looking for them, but they're hard to spot. The Portage Creek marsh in town is well known for them- I had friends in the Herpetology Society who used to collect them in that marsh twenty or thirty years ago. I leave snakes alone. They're a good thing to have in the yard and garden and too many people kill them on sight.

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petitandnaughty 113F
9755 posts
4/3/2015 10:07 am

All pictures are wonderful! Second from the bottom - is out of this world surreal...

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/3/2015 10:17 am

    Quoting petitandnaughty:
    All pictures are wonderful! Second from the bottom - is out of this world surreal...
I should have recorded a video. The water was rippling and catching the sun. Watching it live was a thousand times better than the still photo. My camera screen is hard to see outdoors- it gets washed out in sunlight and the pictures are so small it's hard to see how they turned out. It's hard to describe how beautiful that was, and all over the surface of the marsh water, a million lights all through the marsh.

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
4/3/2015 11:00 am

These are wonderfully overdue, and joyfully received. For those of us (no complaints) locked into our asphalt jungle, taking a virtual walk with you is the next best thing to being there... and we don't have to change our socks after perusing your photos.

Personal favorites -- the lakescapes (unless that's a cleverly photographed puddle) and the trail through the canopy of trees. Really easy to imagine the damp crunch of twigs under one's hiking boots.

Thank you!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
4/3/2015 11:18 am

Thanks! (Nothing clever about my pictures.) The clouds in the water were striking that day.
And we ARE having to change our socks...and everything else. Tick season has arrived. The only safe thing to do is wash EVERYTHING immediately upon returning home. We used to have just wood ticks here, but the tiny deer ticks have arrived and last year we saw a lot of them. The little bastards are insidious! I can live with it...but PD, city girl that she is, has to be handled with kid gloves. They really freak her out. You can eliminate most of them by keeping chickens or guinea fowl in your yard, but the city requires that fowl be cooped, and what good is that?
Even paradise has a few thorns in it...sigh.

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sweet_VM 65F
81699 posts
4/3/2015 2:51 pm

Lovely pics .. I see your doggie is having fun.. Just around the corner isn't it hugssssssssssss V

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
4/3/2015 4:18 pm

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It's a little garter snake...wouldn't you like to have a couple to hold up your stockings? They have a very gentle bite which is only very mildly toxic to their small prey- harmless to humans. It feels kind of like a sexy nibble, and if they nip you someplace tender.......might be kind of kinky to play with, what do you say?

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/3/2015 4:22 pm

    Quoting sweet_VM:
    Lovely pics .. I see your doggie is having fun.. Just around the corner isn't it hugssssssssssss V
She WAS having fun, but she got an ass chewing today. We missed her hike yesterday and she almost always misbehaves the day after a miss. She's smart, but she knows when I'm not holding the leash, and she pulled PD off her feet and onto her face. She doesn't like it when I'm mad at her, so she heeled the last mile and a half to the car. The little snot!
Huggggggggggs B

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/3/2015 4:32 pm

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/3/2015 4:33 pm

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...or.....

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/3/2015 6:45 pm

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OK...that works for me. We'll leave the snakes in the woods, then.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/5/2015 9:36 am

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Slowly stuff is starting to peek out green in the woods- I've got daffodils sprouting in my yard. But it won't really spring til the end of the month.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/5/2015 8:33 pm

Thanks, Apollo!

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sensualpassion72 59M/51F
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4/5/2015 10:17 pm

wonderful!!!


kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
4/5/2015 11:26 pm

Thanks!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/7/2015 6:51 am

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I just like being outdoors and watching. Some days I have to remind myself to take pictures, and other days I have to remind myself not to.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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4/9/2015 9:15 am

    Quoting kathynj:
    So all the snow is gone now in your neck of the woods Kzoo?
I haven't hiked for a couple of days- I pulled a calf muscle and it hurt to walk. Last time out there were still patches in the shady spots, but the snow's nearly gone. Green sprouts are starting to poke out and the pines and firs are getting a very soft, bright green. Lilies and daffodils are popping up in our flower beds.

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