It's rained here a LOT since these were taken a couple of months ago - so the water level is up to close to the top of the blue tiles now. And I have made another shelter for the ducks at pool's edge.
I was driving down the road when something caught my attention outside the passenger window. A snake was writhing there. I pulled over, searched for it and as I lifted the hood of the still running engine I saw it slither into the engine compartment. I waited and it didn't emerge so I drove...
After over a decade of sitting in a drawer, not working, my camera and its lenses were sent to a wonderful camera repair man in Florida and returned 10 days later fixed. SO different from the digital I've gotten used to in recent years. But, oh, the telephoto and the macro in that long lens...