Tracking MAK

[valhalla]

Merry Christmas MAK!  Enjoy every second with your family because wonderful things are waiting just around the corner! 

[Dot_Forrester]

Loved the album, especially the titmouse, bluebird, and flicker. Have fun! 

Dot in PA

[MAK]

Thanks Carly,Janet and Dot! No worries about me having fun-I always do when I'm here. How can I not with my family and wildlife all around me! Carly, I hope you are fairing ok with the ice situation up there-you be safe too!   

[carly]

Carly, I hope you are fairing ok with the ice situation up there-you be safe too!   

Thanks MAK, power came back on here a few hours ago so we're good but still almost 200,000 without it.  The Jack and O'Connor cam is down too as there is no power out that way so I'll have to take a trip out this week and make sure they are okay as I'm on vacation until Jan 6. 

The trees didn't do so well in our neighborhood.  There is a beautiful red maple right by my balcony and it lost 10 limbs/branches and 2 others are cracked and ready to fall - I doubt they'll be able to save it.  A few other trees damaged out front too but not as bad.  It was so eerie last night sitting in the dark and listening to branches and tree limbs fall.  I saw a tree fall on a house across the way too right before night fell, it hit their second story deck and took out part of their chimney on the way down!

[Kris G.]

Carly, I hope you are fairing ok with the ice situation up there-you be safe too!   

Thanks MAK, power came back on here a few hours ago so we're good but still almost 200,000 without it.  The Jack and O'Connor cam is down too as there is no power out that way so I'll have to take a trip out this week and make sure they are okay as I'm on vacation until Jan 6. 

The trees didn't do so well in our neighborhood.  There is a beautiful red maple right by my balcony and it lost 10 limbs/branches and 2 others are cracked and ready to fall - I doubt they'll be able to save it.  A few other trees damaged out front too but not as bad.  It was so eerie last night sitting in the dark and listening to branches and tree limbs fall.  I saw a tree fall on a house across the way too right before night fell, it hit their second story deck and took out part of their chimney on the way down!

Glad to hear your power's back and you're OK.  Ice on trees can be so beautiful but can be so destructive. 

[MAK]

Carly, I hope you are fairing ok with the ice situation up there-you be safe too!   

Thanks MAK, power came back on here a few hours ago so we're good but still almost 200,000 without it.  The Jack and O'Connor cam is down too as there is no power out that way so I'll have to take a trip out this week and make sure they are okay as I'm on vacation until Jan 6. 

The trees didn't do so well in our neighborhood.  There is a beautiful red maple right by my balcony and it lost 10 limbs/branches and 2 others are cracked and ready to fall - I doubt they'll be able to save it.  A few other trees damaged out front too but not as bad.  It was so eerie last night sitting in the dark and listening to branches and tree limbs fall.  I saw a tree fall on a house across the way too right before night fell, it hit their second story deck and took out part of their chimney on the way down!

Carly, I can relate to the eeriness of hearing the trees crackling and breaking from the 1992 ice storm we had in Rochester. I was living in a mobile home in Hamlin and watched a transformer blow across the farmers field behind my trailer. The landscape will look totally different if you guys lose as many trees as we did. Take care! 

[WLABarb]

Just looked at your Arkansas pics. Sure looks like you're in your element, MAK,...surrounded by wonderful creatures! Sorry to hear about your beyond-bumpy plane ride. Now you can just breathe and enjoy!
 

[MAK]

Just looked at your Arkansas pics. Sure looks like you're in your element, MAK,...surrounded by wonderful creatures! Sorry to hear about your beyond-bumpy plane ride. Now you can just breathe and enjoy!
 

I surely am in my element Barb! No chance of getting lonely here!!! 

[MAK]

On day 2 in Paradise I brought my sisters' 3 boxers along for my first drive around the ranch and was greeted by Ginger and Savannah (niece and sisters' horses) as I drove down the dirt driveway along the front pasture. I only did the front half of the ranch today and found the Egyptian Geese up in the prize bull corral and a flock of Meadowlarks eating in a field. My favorite horse whom I've named Bertha, came out to the front of her yard to greet me like she did last year every time I came by. The last half of my ride featured a falcon-the smallest one, a Kestrel. I followed it from hunting off a bale of hay to making it's way down some telephone wires. It didn't catch anything but I had a grand time sharing space with it!

Click on the link below to see what I saw today

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWqjCg

[Donna]

Nice pics MAK, your having wayyy too much fun! Love the E goose!! 

[MAK]

Nice pics MAK, your having wayyy too much fun! Love the E goose!! 

Knew I had to find them for ya-there's 2 of them there, one behind the other. Bad angle on them and I was making the tan cows who were trying to eat nervous, so I moved on. I'll get better pics another day-I have 4 weeks left here! lol
 

[Dot_Forrester]

Those geese are beautiful. Loved all the photos but especially the kestrel on the hay bale. 

Dot in PA

[OlRedHair]

Enjoy your visit.  I love following what you do every day!

[MAK]

Dot, the kestrel was my favorite too! I thought it was a robin at first cuz I saw the rusty breast. When I raised my binoculars and saw that it was a pretty little kestrel I grabbed my camera fast as I could. 

[valhalla]

Very nice!  Rich loves the little titmouse