Obviously its the work of aliens.

Its November, its cold. The marsh has freezed up then melted refreezed partially etc. The ice is not thick enough for anything bigger than a gull to be standing on it without breaking.

I just was outside and noticed a weird pattern of ice melting.

Sorry for quality i took them on an iphone. But the pattern looks similar to when someone shovels snow on ice. They are pretty straight lines. To my knowledge there are no pipes in the marsh in that area. My second thought is muskrat underwater tunnels. These were not there yesterday. The big area when the ice is melted was more open yesterday as well. It seems to have partially frozen over night.  And the far side of the marsh was completely open water yesterday and has frozen over night. My parents tell me that the marsh or "lake Martha" is fed by springs so that could be a cause for this as well.
Any better explanation would be welcomed.

First Snowfall

Well it has finally snowed. Saturday-sunday morning i guess we got around 9 inches or so. The weather is funny, the Wednesday prior it had been in the 60's. Tomorrow we are going to try to put the roses tobed since we had put it off last week due to the warm weather. Hopefully we will be able to save them. I would be surprised if they die from fungus/mold however.

Things have been quite around here. I spent 4 hours outside last night and I saw a bunny and a big fat opossum.
Friday I went for a walk in the area and saw a Great Horned Owl. I was walking along and wanted to go look at this big oak that had fallen over when i noticed a lot of white bird pooh on the ground and so i looked up and there was an owl, staring down at me with its big yellow eyes.  Ive been hoping to hear the owls hooting at night but so far i haven't heard anything. 

I took a walk in the same area i saw the owl just before sunset today, didnt see much of anything. Found turkey and deer tracks and fox tracks as well.


The camera is still giving me issues. so no pictures. Unless i decide to upload blurry pictures of the yard. Which i still might do.

November

Well its too bad i only had one post in October and November isnt looking so good for posts either. I am having issues with my camera. It isnt focusing very well at all. Its also been unusally quiet in the yard. Beyond squirrels and some birds i havent seen much of anything out there at all. Its been slow cleaning up the yard and now that its getting colder i am almost at the point where I just would rather wait to do clean up in the spring.
Hopefully I will get my act together and get this camera working more reliably.
Random fact about me, I really don't like it to be cold outside , ( anything below 60F) but I love snow, so I am looking forward to our first snowfall.