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Signe
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Muse.
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I love frogs. Especially Robson Green Frog.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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bhodi
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No lie.
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It's Hopkin green frog! There's a lot of people that have been looking for you... (back in 2004)
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Signe
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Muse.
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I like Robson Green Frog better. He's dreamy.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Did someone call the Frog Brigade?
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Out at my mother's place for her birthday yesterday. She was out of town so we set up her summer furniture and spruced the place up before she got home for dinner. I noticed the dead dove when I was taking things out through the basement. When I was putting the furniture on the deck, I noticed the mate. This is a picture of the mate scurrying away from the corpse when I leaned over the rail to take the pic. Doves are monogamous, and the devotion this one showed for her dead mate surpasses what I see many humans show for each other. My mother feeds birds, so the dove just kinda hung out all day pecking food and going back over to sit by her dead mate. Ripped my fucking heart out.
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schild
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That's not a dove. It's a pigeon.
Doves are white. Flying rats are grey.
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Miasma
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Looks like a mourning dove. I guess that's how they got the name .
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kaid
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The most common type of dove around here is the mourning dove which is grey to buff in color.
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Merusk
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Lantyssa
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I love doves. I get teased for it, but I frequently exclaim with loving exuberance 'Dove!' whenever I see them. (I should note there are like forty nesting pairs year round in the immediate area.)
They used to all be mourning doves with a handful of Inca doves. Now they're mostly white wings. I still love them all.
[This blog entry brought to you by the letters D, O, V, and E.]
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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SnakeCharmer
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Dove breast stuffed with a small piece of garlic and wrapped in bacon, then tossed on the grill for a bit is absolutely awesome.
After you dig out the birdshot, that is. I call it proper tenderization.
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Lantyssa
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Disturbingly enough, I fully agree.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Sky
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That's not a dove. It's a pigeon.
Doves are white. Flying rats are grey.
Citeh boy is please to not be telling country boy what bird he's looking at. Kthx.
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Lantyssa
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Also it's very sad to see.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Paelos
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Also it's very sad to see. The magpies around my parents house in Colorado were annoying my parents because they are loud as shit. So, my dad asked another guy what to do with them, and he said to shoot one and throw it up on the roof as a warning. So, he did, but magpies are monogomous so the mate mourned over the body for weeks. My mom was horrified and took the gun away. My dad felt bad about it for a month. Now they both feed the birds, even though they are loud as hell.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Heh. That's a great story.
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BoatApe
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Magpies are savage, bloodthirsty demons. They make an ungodly ugly sound.
I once watched a squirrel get stunned by a passing vehicle, didn't appear too hurt but as it tried to catch it's breath in a nearby gutter, 3 magpies swooped down and tore the poor thing to shreds...while it was still alive.
Foul beasts.
Was when I lived in Colorado, for what it's worth.
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« Last Edit: April 23, 2008, 12:19:22 AM by BoatApe »
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Endie
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Yep, magpies are less charming versions of crows, which is saying something. They'll steal eggs and chicks from other birds' nests, and they're one of the few animals I can still happily shoot with a clear conscience.
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My blog: http://endie.netTwitter - Endieposts "What else would one expect of Scottish sociopaths sipping their single malt Glenlivit [sic]?" Jack Thompson
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Where?
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Sorry, Trenton Falls. Private land, they only open it two weekends a year, and the upper falls were closed due to rockslides :(
I tried to convince them I'm agile and intelligent enough to deal with dodgy rocks, but I was up against a minimum wage earner. If I wasn't with the fiancee, I'd have hopped the fence anyway.
I've got a cool one of the supports for the old wooden aqueduct, I'll post one after lunch.
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Pretty.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Supports for the old aqueduct, which was made of wood. Modern metal one in the background.
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WayAbvPar
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Bullshit. That is remnants from Noah's Ark!
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LK
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That's not a dove. It's a pigeon.
Doves are white. Flying rats are grey.
And there's about 200 of them that need exterminating in Liberty City!
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Nerf
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Just got it today, I love that new gun feeling.
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« Last Edit: December 20, 2010, 12:56:28 AM by Nerf »
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Der Helm
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You Americans are a scary bunch.
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"I've been done enough around here..."- Signe
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Engels
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Looks like a 40
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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murdoc
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I'd make comments about Americans and their guns, but I spent many hours in the summer shooting gophers from the back of a moving pickup truck while drinking beer.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Nerf
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Looks like a 40
Glock 19, 9mm Sold my well used 34 last night (full size tactical/practical 9mm) and picked this one up NIB earlier for a total of $40 out of pocket, I'm happy.
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Engels
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inflicts shingles.
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What brand is a 34? Not familiar with it.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Nerf
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Glock 34, it's their competition 9mm model. Fullsize frame, longer slide and barrel, roughly the size of a 1911. It worked flawlessly for me, thousands of rounds down the pipe and not a single failure to fire, but it's just too big to carry concealed.
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JWIV
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Went to the opening night of Charm City Roller Girls Season 3 last night. Good times. This is a picture of Coach Ballbricker (left) and Dirty Trixie (right) of the Junkyard Dolls.
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schild
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If I ever start a roller derby team it's going to be the Clam City Rollers.
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Endie
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I'd make comments about Americans and their guns, but I spent many hours in the summer shooting gophers from the back of a moving pickup truck while drinking beer.
Same feeling here, until I remembered that one of my neighbours was losing a fifth of his crop to a rabbit infestation after the little bastards grew immune to mixy (though I hate that disease for what it does to the poor little buggers). We used to drive an old BMW 5 series round his fields in the evenings, with drunk 16-year-olds with 12-bores leaning out of every window (driver's included). I very nearly broke my jaw taking an ill-advised shot. Handguns never interested me, though, and I couldn't even bring myself to shoot a rabbit, now. Last time I shot was birds in eastern Hungary, a good three years ago. Birds are different vOv
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My blog: http://endie.netTwitter - Endieposts "What else would one expect of Scottish sociopaths sipping their single malt Glenlivit [sic]?" Jack Thompson
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