Up a creek … with a shovel

This frog could not believe his eyes, flowers in February!

Nature is amazing, such variety. Like this small delicate seed:

Verses this big, hard, pokey, painful to walk on seed:

And then there are insects. We found these guys munching on Helen’s yarn balls:

I asked this guy if he was practicing to be a football linebacker:

I think he was insulted by the question:

Big project this month was a new trail “Up the creek”. I put this bench next to a pretty little waterfall:

I hacked my phone and camera together so I could make a video that shows before and after footage, simultaneously:

Resulting video here:

The end of that video has a short time-lapse video of rocks flying together into this bench:

Some friends introduced us to a real Alabama waterfall:

We re-affirmed that dogs don’t wear shoes … they lasted 30 seconds:

This is the face of a dog saying ‘I could have told you that was not going to work’:

Geek vlog this month was about wireless sensors:

Wireless sensors
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Closing with the last known picture of an un-frozen Zach:

Bruce

Pretty Lights

Guesses as to what this is?

A really bad hint: it is totally unrelated to these sparkling Hanuka candles.

Our record breaking 2+ month drought ended in a big way:

I ran the gravity fed creek fountains through a couple of freezing nights:

Resulting in some ice encased leaves and twigs:

Doggy tested out my new mini-Stonehenge benches. Those big flat rocks are at the limit of my one-man rock moving abilities:

Did some hiking in downtown Birmingham and found some pretty lights:

This pile of stuff is also about to become pretty lights:

It is a voice controlled back-light for our TV:

I have some video of it this video about voice controlled TV stuff:

Voice controlled TV
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In forest news, this big downed tree is slowly slipping off of a rock and onto power pole guy-lines. I had built a trail under it, which I now walk through faster than I used to :)

I also built a trail under this log, which somehow landed precariously onto another tree stump 10 feet up:

That mystery photo was a pretty paper thin log mushroom:

Bruce