Mother’s Day Drive – part 1

Sunday after church and lunch, I decided to go for a drive.  I took oodles of pictures and decided that one blog would be way too much to load with pictures so I decided to do it in segments.  This segment contains animals and wildlife along my route.  One of the first places I drove to was the cemetery and wouldn’t you know that the first thing I would see would be a magpie – these birds are everywhere!  Even though they are such a pest, I still think they are such a pretty bird.

Continuing on my way, I headed for the mine hill.  Just off to the left-hand side of the road, a doe was calmly eating.  I made some noise to get her attention so she would look up for a picture but she could care less that I was there.  Very content and relaxed, I’d say.

When I saw this next scene, I had to laugh.  Never before have I seen a couple of duck butts.  It was a couple of mallard ducks eating away under the water.  They would both duck (no pun intended) under the water and a few seconds later they would surface.  I watched them do this over and over again.  Some days there are just certain things that entertain me….as you can see, I’m easily amused.

Driving on further up the mine hill, I went as far as the old compressor building before turning around. On my way back down, I spotted this little guy sitting on a rock.  I’m not sure what he had in his mouth but from the looks of it, his mouth was totally stuffed.

After leaving the mine hill, I was headed toward home then decided to take a turn and head out around Houston Rd.  I noticed a car coming up pretty fast behind me so I pulled over to let them pass.  As I was coming to a corner, I noticed a few cows in the road.

As I started to proceed slowly towards the cows, all of a sudden I hear a horn blasting and lots of cows running my way.  I came to a crawl and was moving very slowly to get through the cows when I kept hearing the horn blasting and pretty soon with all the running cows, the same car that had past me earlier came around the corner, still blasting away on the horn.  ???????

This is as far as I go with the animal part of my Mother’s Day tour but as you can see, I had a nice, enjoyable drive.