Recent content by Kilchis

Here's a half-assed blacktail photo….

It's nice when the neighbors drop in just to chill and relax. (That bench washed in during a freshet about 6 years ago. If it's yours just wander downstream and take it home.)

DT's are my preference, mostly because I started using them in the 70's and never found a reason to switch.

How about the steel ones you found with an inner tube gasket ‘twixt the steel and the hull?

Terrific images!!

Swamp thangs. Western Painted Turtle and bonus non-native coypu. This was a long telephoto shot and I didn't know the nutria was there until I downloaded the photo at home. The turtle is about the size of half a basketball. Western Painteds can live over 50 years in the wild.

That's a nice shot of a female Eight-spotted Skimmer. A male would have white patches outboard of each dark wing spot patch, and with age, a bluish color to the abdomen.

Metal grill brushes be evil! I went thru $350k of surgeries 12, 13 and 14 years ago, with the added treat of arresting during the first peritonitis operation. Other fun things included half a year with a colostomy, 6 weeks of daily IV infusions and loss of about 14 inches of bowel. Please...

I second the motion re Lifetime coolers. Whatever you get, pre-chilling is wise.

Blue Dasher, female.

I encountered this quarter-inch critter on an intensely fragrant native silver-dollar sized Nootka rose today.

Clematis.

No plastic owls, but I took a really nice telephoto shot of a Snowy Owl that was WAY out there. When I enlarged the photo the bird turned into a muddy white pickle bucket.