This is a semi-hosted cafe
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Take a load off and relax with friends!!! Bar is free and the munchies are plentiful.
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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Froggy Bottom Happy Hour(closed)
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Take a load off and relax with friends!!! Bar is free and the munchies are plentiful.
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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Sorry about this being so late. I guess all the others are busy watching B-ball. LOL
My “I survived the bush regime, so far” T-shirt was real popular last summer/fall. Looks like I’ll be needing it for this coming season too.
LOL Keeping me busy LOL. I am glad the shirt is a hit.
Still wondering who took that picture that was used in the last lounge and where I can buy the jigsaw puzzle version!! LOL
It is one I stole on the internet and then photoshoped over a year ago. LOL
and dinner is cooking (baked chicken) — if the spouse isn’t home by the time it’s done I’m freakin’ eating without him! 🙂
Back still twinging just a bit, but doing better otherwise, other than being hungry…
baked chicken, eh? I’ll be right over.
Guess I’ll have to just have to go warm up some taco con pollo for myself here before I keel over from lack of sustenance.
I’m just sitting down with a banana and strawberry yoghurt smoothie.
Anyone care to join me?
Especially if it’s delivered;)
Any new photos of your local fauna? Hint hint:)
Even though I’m on dial-up tonight, I have some residual patience not yet consumed by the day’s BushCo news.
Will local flora do?
A trio of Hare’s Ears Orchids that I photographed yesterday.
The flower heads are smaller than my thumbnail.
Hare’s Ears Orchids… now that’s a new one. But then there’s hardly any subject you come up with that not new to me… what a contrast you have in both flora and fauna relative to the Northern Prairies of this country.
The Northern Prairies are fabulous. I especially liked seeing the Badlands when I last had the chance to travel the northern route.
Here are two more Hare’s Ears Orchids.
The flowers are just over their actual size in the thumbnail link to the larger photo.
It’s easy to miss them if you don’t look carefully. We have to keep an eye on Luna’s sizable paws, as well as our own feet, to keep from smooshing them on our walks.
If you pop back to the St. Patrick’s day lounge, you can see a real oddity known as an Autumn Bird Orchid – which tries to seduce male flies into having sex with it.
hey, and I did look there, looks like that one is pretty well enticed all right;)
You’ve got a point on the Badlands, they’re pretty unusual. And I’m long overdue for a return visit to them.
One time in the badlands I once saw a meadowlark take very long flight from a high butte to the valley below… what was odd it never moved its wings the whole flight, just glided, until it landed. That was something I’d never seen living here in eastern ND on the prairie.
If’n you’re ever passing through ND you may also want to check out the Ft. Yates Indian Reservation, about 1-2hrs south of Bismarck. LaDonna BraveBull is a great local guide. She can get you to some very interesting terrain.
The tribe does not allow power lines above ground in that area. So the vistas are great for us photogs.
And never in my life have I heard so many varieties of birds.
I think you would especially enjoy that area Keres.
I’m not sure when I’ll get back to the States, but I’ll keep your recomendation in mind.
We’re actually in a very dry part of Tasmania. Most people don’t know this, but dry areas usually have greater species diversity than wet areas. Which would be one reason you see so many different bird species in prairies.
We probably see at least forty different species of birds on our property alone – not including our Muscovy ducks and chickens.
“…dry areas usually have greater species diversity than wet areas…”
That could be true in mid ND also. I think where I live in E ND, about 40 miles from MN, we have lost species variety over the last couple of decades. Since there are birds I recall from my youth, such as Akansas Kingbirds and Western Kingbirds that are now very rare.
Also, probably in mid ND, there is a greater overlap of bird species, some from both Eastern US and Western US.
I know a birding expert, I’ll have to ask him about the diversity vs dry and wet, and see what he has to say about it for our area.
A few springs back we did have what they call a “fall” in that a great variety of songbirds migrating to N Canada hung out here for days. That was pretty amazing!
Be sure to drop me an email if’n ya do venture this way, as there are some interesting features here in E ND too.
baked chickenshit?
prefer the advocato sandwich?
with a cold chardonadir?
4 years of crap showing in the geopolitical strata.
with enough THC anything tastes good…even catsh*t.