Its Hot Out! Barn Swallows Uh... In The Barn! They Are Welcome!

Blue snake 'bout 5 feet long headed into the flower bed! Hope it catches some mice! Not our toads...sadly if they jump they're dinner.

Discovered this while walking W/O the dogs! Incredibly still it waits for us to leave. June and July are heavy fawning periods in south texas.

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Saw this while checking salt in the cow pens. Thirteen Striped ground squirrel. South Texas!

Winter feeding and new calves in South Texas.

A410 chillin' in the brush! He's serviced all the girls and needs to relax. 1 of 6 bulls on the home place breeding 120 cows. 7/2019 in south Texas.

A scorpion with little ones on its back! South Texas is scorpion paradise! Yard work, Loading square bales ‘hay’, Pulling green corn all could be hazardous! However I prefer 'zapps’ from scorpions over wasps or honey bees as they dont hurt as much. According to my grandfather when dried corn was hand harvested 'pulled’ and tossed into a mule drawn wagon the harvester could expected many scorpion stings on his/her hands. Asking about gloves he replied gloves made it difficult to grip the corn so were not used.

My niece is fascinated with the Cicada Hawk! She took this second picture of it guarding its as yet unemergent young which are consuming a cicada in and underground chamber under the steps of the back porch.

Hard to play hide and seek when you’re a cow!

#cow #milkcow #south texas

Days gone by! Drank a few sodas here back in the day.