Saturday Critters

Saturday's critters:

Fox, by Jackie Morris

 

Lake Tomahawk was beginning to have water in it again as of last week.

  The black duck seems to be a hybrid of white and some other colored parent (perhaps mallards as they are frequent visitors here)

The photos above were last week, and now I'll let you see what happened yesterday. I picked up my lunch  at the Lakeview site, and planned to sit and eat it out by the lake in the warm sunshine.

As soon as I came near an empty picnic table by the Gazebo, these same three ducks appeared and accosted me. They were very interested in my bag with the clamshell full of my lunch.

As you can see, there was no sitting on that bench...and they started snapping at me, as well as vocalizing. So I gave the vocal NO No No back, in my own barking kind of way, stomping my feet (I didn't want to kick them, but neither did I want to be pecked.)

The gazebo floor made great sounds as I stomped up its ramp, and the ducks seemed to understand this was to be my territory...then they went around the other side, hoping maybe I'd feel sorry for them. Right.

When I went walking after eating, still carrying my bag, these three followed me. Again I stomped and barked, and they finally went elsewhere. Whew!

And the funny thing is the food I had would have probably been ok for them, corn, lettuce, tomatoes, but not the chicken or wrap of course!

I kind of took a few photos and came home to eat the rest of my chicken taco salad.

Oh, and the lake is almost full again!

Sharing with Eileen's Saturday's Critters

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Today's good news:

Volunteer archivists recreate the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it appeared prior to meddling by the current administration.  -Americans of Conscience Checklist, Mar 14, 2025

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Asheville SHOWED UP to our town hall meeting March 13, over 2 THOUSAND community members told our MAGA representative (Chuck Edwards) how a lot of us feel about what he and the Trump administration are doing.

Photos by Neil Jacobs above

Screenshot of Chuck Edwards, allowing applause and boos, and trying to hear questions which were very critical of his Republican views (Asheville is mainly Democratic, but is snug within a gerrymandered Republican district).

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Women's History Month honor: Open Yesterday's Pages, Toshee Seeger, Pete's wife.

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Today's quote:

In the morning, send yourself love for the entire day and be sure to collect that love along the way.

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Family album:

Grandson Michael and his girlfriend, Amanda.  2024

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Today's art:

Art Critic by Norman Rockwell (1955)

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For anyone who wishes to be my friend on Blue Sky, 

I'm at BlackMtn.Barb@blkmtnbarb.bsky.social