Completed the two options for the FREE desktop calendars last night
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To download Easter Bunny please
and follow download instructions~
and/ or to download Sheds
Thanks you and enjoy
I enjoy sharing these Free desktop calendars, so feel free to spread the word..
Keep your chin to the wind.. spring “is” coming~
I can’t believe that it is already the end of July..
Less than a month until school starts again..
My oh my~ the times does fly..
Take a moment to enjoy each and every day~
Life is too short..
Get outdoors and find something fun to do
before winter returns once again..
Life in the fast lane seems to be the norm for most of our civilized world. Why must we strive for more speed? What could we possibly gain by moving at a faster pace? I admit that the rumble of a big block under the hood and the vibration of the shift lever in my right hand brings forth some sort of euphoria. The sight of any of the American muscle cars from my youth make me desire the days of old, when a lead foot and youthful ignorance could allow for speeds that I would never even consider now.
In the wild, there are usually only two reasons for speed, flight or chase. When one’s life hangs in the balance, I would think that speed and stamina would become second nature. I have seen elk scale sheer rock, in a bid to outrun and outdistance predators bent on their demise. From a high ledge in the back country of Montana, I watched a mountain lion try in vane to catch a two day old mountain goat kid, only to be ousted by the mother and nearly fall to his death. One has only to watch the majestic pronghorn antelope race across the landscape at speeds seemingly impossible, to realize that we humans are sloth compared to our animal brethren.
So, maybe our desire to go faster stems from some ancient chase, a race that more than likely we lost at the hands of some far superior opponent in a bid for survival.
I will be thinking of that the next time my wife says I should slow down. What if the race were for survival? Would she or the officer in my rear view mirror understand then? Probably not, but you can be certain that I would run! Like my animal brethren, I would fly like the wind!
ABC WednesdayLetter J
Things have been so busy here lately that I almost missed this week,
but~ thankfully I made it by a hare (wink~LOL)
Photo taken 2/5/2008~ F8~ISO400~1/500This photograph of this Jack Rabbit was originally posted on February 8th 2008.
The Jack Rabbit is not really a rabbit at all but a hare. The young are born in the spring fully haired and with their eyes open, where as a rabbit is born in a burrow or den, naked and with their eyes closed . These animals are not the prolific breeders that the cotton tail rabbits are, therefore they rely on speed, they have been known to run up to 45MPH and leaping up to15-20 feet in a single bound. They also rely on camouflage, their coats change from a grey/brown color in the summer to a white with grey underneath in the winter and they will freeze and not move if they believe that they have not been detected. A normally shy creature I was able to approach within feet of this beautiful animal as it hid in a ditch believing that it was hidden, before it bounded off over the frost covered landscape.
