Whatzit?

[webenda]

Sorry Wayne, my bad!.......Ugh? Could you still put me in your will anyway?

Thank you MItch, that was an undeserved apology but I certainly appreciate it.

You see, I have explored all the mines and caves around here alone. Some of them big enough to ride my bicycle through so that if I never came out there would be no bicycle outside as a clue someone went in. Your warning was deserved.

[HONDO74]

GOTCHU, Wayne got us again......

Why, Hondo, it was all true.

I was hiking in the Tucson Mountains today (inside the confines of the museum grounds.)

Yes Wayne you did tell the story and 95% of it was true. But you are not Paul Harvey, You didn't tell us the rest of the story.

[robert.]

Can you see it?

[Roy]

C wut?

[robert.]

Use 3 trees lined up left of center. follow down their right hand side. Half way up the other hillside. You'll find it sitting in front of a fallen tree trunk.
Not the light colored trunk laying left to right. There is a darker colored trunk laying perpendicular to that.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Use 3 trees lined up left of center. follow down their right hand side. Half way up the other hillside. You'll find it sitting in front of a fallen tree trunk.
Not the light colored trunk laying left to right. There is a darker colored trunk laying perpendicular to that.

Yes, but what is it? I can't tell from that photograph.

[HONDO74]

I see it. It's a deer laying down....

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[MurphOnMillerAve]

That's one of the wonderous things about deer, that even if you know they are present, their coloring makes them blend perfectly into their natural environment , particularly true for the fawns with their mottled white-spotted tan/brown coats, just like the sunlight speckling thru among the many limbs and stems and myriad low foliage varieties in a forest. I've seen it in real life and have duly marveled over the arrangement Nature has worked out there, like right here, in full high-noon sunlight, where I stumbled upon a mother deer and her fawn, which was crouched down under some low foliage. I'd have fallen over them, once I had gotten out of the car, if I hadn't seen the mother look in the direction of the fawn, which reacted with a slight chin-up movement. It felt like an honor seeing them here.....
I had walked in approx. 20yds from the dirt-road's edge.
The only sound was the light click-clacking of the higher branches of the trees, swaying in the gentle breeze.
Total peacefulness.

[robert.]

Yes a deer. A buck with antlers growing.

[healey36]

That pic, Murph, I 'd almost expect a Seneca war party to come busting out of the trees...looks like you were waaaaaay back off the beaten path.

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Looks like the lane off the highway to my place except it's wider and smoother,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That pic, Murph, I 'd almost expect a Seneca war party to come busting out of the trees...looks like you were waaaaaay back off the beaten path.

Healey

Absolutely correct.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Total peacefulness.

And then the horde of bugbears came thundering through on attack..............

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Total peacefulness.

And then the horde of bugbears came thundering through on attack..............

Well, obviously. That's a given, isn't it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Total peacefulness.

And then the horde of bugbears came thundering through on attack..............

Well, obviously. That's a given, isn't it.

Well, it could have been the upper mid-central lower eastern NY oyster migration.