Thanks, grandad...I appreciate the welcome. My wife and I visited England twice when our son was stationed at an air base near Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds. We enjoyed your country tremendously even though his neighbors referred to us as “colonials”...lol

You are probably correct. The temperature has been around 110 degrees for several days now...enough to make anyones’ feathers fall out!

We have lots of mourning doves and the recent larger collard doves, but don’t remember seeing one colored like this before. Could it be a white wing that strayed up from Arizona?

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Oops, sorry. Guess I did respond to thr wrong post. My bad.

I was trying to acknowlege my spelling error before someone pointed it out to me...just trying to get the jump on a troll.
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Thanks, everyone who looked at the scrawny jack rabbit. I didn’t notice my misspelling of ‘embarassed” until right after I poked the send button.

I saw this guy through the kitchen window early this morning...grabbed my Sony RX10IV, which I leave on auto mode, and managed 3 quick shots before he ran up the hill.
Jpeg heavily cropped.

Oh.boy! look what I just found for breakfast.

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Oh oh.I think someone sees me and I look terrible with my hair falling out. No wonder I’m called a hare and not a rabbit!

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This is so embarresing...I better get out of here.

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Last Saturday my daughter and son-in-law took me for a drive to have lunch at Mountain Springs outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. As we drove by the south end of Red Rock Canyon I could not help but notice the beauty of the cumulus clouds building up over the Spring Mountains. I shot a picture out of the passenger side window as we drove along (Sony RX10IV—-hand held jpeg right out of the camera). I know it isn’t great photography, but for someone who is pretty much housebound it was great to shoot something other than birds and small animals through a window in the family room.

Thanks for taking the time to look at this scene. If I post anything again I’m afraid it will be birds or small animals!

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I don’t know, Mike. With these lawn mowers the grass goes in one end and comes out the other as fertilizer which grows more grass that makes more fertilizer which grows more grass...ad finitum.

Thanks, Mac...you catch ‘em and I’ll rent them to you.

Drove over to Hemingway park yesterday where a herd of desert big horn sheep always spend their summer vacation. They stay in the River Mountains behind Boulder City most of the year, but come down during the hot months to lounge under the shade trees and munch on the grass. The park (about a mile from my house) is located right at the foot of the mountains and the sheep come down almost every day around 10am and stay until dusk when they go back up to their natural habitat. This makes it easy for the Nevada fish and game dept. to capture a couple of dozen of them to start new herds in places as far away as Texas...by the end of summer they are almost tame.

I shot a few photos out of the car window while I was there with my Sony RX10IV. Here are two of them (jpegs right out of the camera...one slightly cropped and the second heavily cropped).

Aside: I,ve Always wondered why they are called sheep when they look and act more like goats. Unlike sheep, they poop little round hard pellets like goats or deer. Just ask anyone who gets on the grass after they have been there...
LOL.

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Happened to me once taking off from Phoenix headed right toward downtown in a Beech Bonanza...grabbed the wobble pump and got fuel pressure back in the nick of time. Didn’t have time to sweat but pinched a button hole in the left front seat! Thanks for reminding me LOL.

Thanks, John. I will check “store original” in the future.
Beginners mistake.

Thank you joe blow. It amazed me too

I already am enjoying my new hobby, robertier—- especially since I figured out how to post. You all may be sorry!