AstroGypsies

I was looking for Loonlets! I got sidetracked in the bay watching the dragonflies. Dozens of Halloween Pennants breeding and laying their eggs in the water. Widow Skimmers chasing mosquitos, and those Blue Dashers…they know how to pose these guys! They kept landing on the beautiful white water lilies, and then the yellow ones…I just sat in the canoe, there was no wind, and watched them dance from flower to flower.

I called it my antidote to humanity…too much news reading and just overall disdain for the human race…I had to get out and paddle. There were Slaty Skimmers as well as a bright red meadowhawk, Cherry faced maybe? These names…:) The Bluets were doing the wild thing as well! Dragonfly orgies everywhere! I want what they are smoking;) Ha!

I finally pulled myself away, I was sweating, and decided to head to the shady side and meander, lollygaggle, dillydally, add a dash of dawdling (you know Cathy!) as I paddled along. Checking out the underwater rocks, will I hit, will I miss…I missed…)

Out in the middle I spotted one Loon. Must go!

Then another Loon joined the photo session as I got out there! They were eyeing each other up, so maybe not our breeding pair. It was an interesting encounter. Not hostile, but not a breeding pair! They were both dribbling water, not sure if this has any significance?

They both dove and swam off in opposite directions, by now I was really getting warm and abandoned going any further. The cell phone was so hot it said it wasn’t functioning and to get it to a cooler location…on my way! As I approached the far shady shore I came upon another Loon, maybe part of our Larry, Moe and Curly crew?

It then proceeded to only what I can call…walk on water…

I didn’t have the camera set to a fast enough speed so not crystal clear but such a cool sequence…first the semi-lift off…Then the feet get going! paddling on the surface of the water! Then walking on water baby!

It went about 300′ and then settled back down to swimming…no calling, just walking! So beautiful to watch! So much water getting flung everywhere! I kept paddling…I spied some deer on the far shore and made my way over to them…going home is never, ever in a straight line! Didn’t you know?! Ha!

I wasn’t the only one who was warm! These two deer were cooling off in the water…Shade and leaves to eat! “Hey lady, whatcha want?” they seemed to be asking! Alright, heading home!

All that heat and humidity brought in some serious thunderstorms later in the day, it always cools it off a bit, as long as the sun doesn’t come back out and steam you!

I love watching these storm clouds form, updrafts and downdrafts, shape shifters of the weather world…it did get very steamy later…whew! The deer flies were ecstatic…0_0..their kind of weather!

It’s ever changing.

The deer flies have been so bad poor Rocket the cat refuses to go out! They bite his large ears and he comes scampering back at full speed with a compliment of deer fly Tie fighters following him. They do look like that! Mike saw a toddler tent for sale and decided it might help…I wasn’t sure who wanted to actually be IN the tent at first;)

It was a hit, until the flies went into the tent! Ha!

Yes, the Traveling Mewberries are spoiled rotten:) Gamora has a flyswatter fetish, yes, she loves to be tapped with the flyswatter. All you have to do is hold it up, and she comes running…who said only hoomans were weird! Maybe we all do get reborn…she has had a few spicy past lives apparently!

They’ve slowed down in the heat, hiding under the car to avoid the the ever present deer flies. I can’t imagine how horrendous it is for the deer and other creatures out there! The Trumpeter Swan family are doing well with the two remaining cygnets, getting larger every day! They are sometimes right beside the road on the tiny island so I have to jump out of the car and get a few snaps of them! Even the babies looked hot! Stretching their feet out to cool off!

I’ll catch up more with them later this week and our trio of Loons, first time we’ve had singles so early, calling them Larry, Moe and Curly! I’ll leave you with some cool haze and light, sunrises have been beautiful but man, 5:32…really!? Ha! Stay tuned amigos for light, smoke, birds and more bugs!