The almost trophy fish

A little late but here it is, ( top,) is the the whooper so far, a large mouth bass . 4 lbs and 18 in. that I caught in discovery pond. 2 more pounds and he could have been a trophy.
I almost caught a much bigger one but it broke my 10 pound test line. I caught this whooper at the last minute just as mom called us home and we thought the fish stoped biting. On that day Ducky made the discovery of Bullhead cat fish that have been living in the pond in secret. We are going to try and catch those to, besides the giant Bass that got away.

above is not the same fish but another I caught at a lake called Sims Vally. In this picture I am teaching Ducky how to clean fish my way.

My garden

This is an angel face rose bud from my garden. of all four of my new rose bushes it was the only one to have roses. below is a M&M lady bug I did while backing cookies. when little princess saw me she immediately began doing her own M&M designs.

A walk in our 5 acre woods

Ducky and I took a walk in our forest each at a different time and we both took pictures. I took the two top ones and she took the other two. When ever I am away traveling somewhere, I have missed the rolling hills of the Ozarks, the scenery, the out doors activities, the little critters, and even the thunderstorms, also a particular annoying bug that makes a wee, a wee, a weeeee sound. Those little bugs are called cicadas. they come around in June,, or when it starts to get hot. Their wee wee sound is so loud it covers any other sound like cars or the little frogs, crickets and Whippoorwills. Cicadas were one of the things I knew I wouldn't miss when I spent the summer in CA...however, the first couple nights it took me a long while to go to sleep. It was too quiet.

Little night bird

In the months of early spring, you can hear this rare little bird called a Whippoorwill. I tried to stalk him to get a picture but instead got his voice. you wont see any thing because it's night time, but I think he sounds pretty. Where I live there are many night sounds and different ones at in different seasons. This is one of the night critters I enjoy listening to.

Check this out!

We caught all these fish at Discovery on April 20; The smaller ones are Blue gills and green sunfish, And the white ones are Crappie. This big fella in the lead is a foot long- the biggest one yet. That's big for a crappie. He's also pictured all by himself at the right. Sorry about the bad pic.s . Couldn't get the flash off.