Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

....to the park. Yesterday afternoon.

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joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Up to your usual magnificent standards 🏆🥇🏆, and it looks like you may have had a chupacabra running around there, exsanguinating the wildlife

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Oh! The stories that cow could tell!!!


If it could still speak. Which --one might assume-- it never could. In anything other than unabridged bovine-speak, of course.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Nice inclusion of the rock art, Jim!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Excellent.

DougS Loc: Central Arkansas

Always an interesting park! Thanks for sharing!

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

And apparently, no entrance fee! And rock art! I like it!

jimvanells Loc: Augusta, GA

You must know that park like the back of your hand. I always enjoy you photos.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

Love the rock art. The clouds are a bit foreboding.

lnl Loc: SWFL

As always, beauty lies in your hands when you hold a camera.
That dead cow appears quite desiccated and dehydrated yet its bones haven’t been picked clean. Is that unusual?

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Look again, Ellen... desiccated & dehydrated to be sure, but note the exposed, bare white bone of the lower jaw, the bare bone portions of the legs, the bare and meatless ends of the ribs that shine brightly in the overcast gloom... And lemme just tell ya just how scrumpacillious the wet and stringy innards and stuff had been! Before the rest of Lady Bovine got freeze-dried and nibbled on and left with little more than the tough and decidedly un-tasty covering of hide and some meat-free bones. Mmmm- mmmm-good! Yummy, in fact, is what the birds (ravens mostly, but there is a nesting pair of Golden Eagles in residence not more than a few flaps of the wings and a reasonable thermal away...) were doubtlessly thinking as they enjoyed their feast. And no, coming across something like this is not at all unusual.

Might I interest you in some (relatively? doubtless less than a week old?!?) fresh road-kill beaver? Saw one only an hour or so ago, out along the River Road. Mr/Ms (I didn't stop to check the critter's gender) Tire-Flattened Beaver might still be there, more or less (didn't see many birds as I passed, so....), and the River Road can sometimes get really pretty sometimes so I wouldn't be against making another pass at it. (Other times, like when tourorists are around, driving the River Road can be tantamount to putting your life in somebody else's hands.) Plus, I could supply you with a killer good recipe for 'Beaver au Jus with Brussel Sprouts & Chives Delight'. And if I send whatever's left of it to you via snail mail, just think how good the aged and not-quite-putrid meat would be! Woot-woot & epicurean splendor!

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Hang on, Cany!!! Hang on! Local PD fellas are on the way! Don't let the kittens eat you before they show up!
And whatever you do don't let the chupacabra in! I don't think exsanguination would look good on you!?

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Good news, Cheepf: The local chupacabra (i.e., my two cats --whose names happen to be, coincidentally, 'Chupa' (the female) and her brother, 'Cabra' (the male) are singularly uninterested in feats of exsanguination with either me or anyone else. That's because, quite simply, they're existentially aware that if they were senselessly predisposed toward such foolishness, there'd be nobody left to rub their bellies or scritch their ears as required. And worse, there'd be no one left who'd open their luscious cans of 'Shreds' or pour their beloved crunchies out of bags and into their bowls. They may merely be housebound fur-persons, but that doesn't make 'em stupid.

And so far as any of the local PD or LE personages go, the ones I know aren't stupid either. And the others I don't know are, I've been advised, wisely afraid of cats.