All y’all, it’s fall!
Fall has definitely made its presence known here in the Arkansas Ouachitas!
Happy Place
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge asks: ” Where’s your happy place?” For us, it’s that place where the rising sun’s rays skim across the mountain folds, and updrafts sustain the wind play of vultures and hawks. It’s that place where birds fill the ears with chirps and whistles and hoots, and buck snorts add exclamation points to the Ouachita Mountain soundtrack. It’s also the place that has served as a bird blind, galactic observatory and deer-watching platform. That happy place is our deck.


MANTIS!
Bad sci-fi movies are a staple in our household. Whether we get them filtered (MST3K, Svengoolie, etc.) or consume them directly through the miracle of satellite television, we see at least bits of one every two weeks or so.
It’s somewhat understandable that when we see things like this on the left, it always puts us in mind of the image on the right.
Just before the arrival of fall, we had quite a few of these stringy fellows clinging to our windows in the evenings, preying on whatever was attracted by the light from inside the house.
WPC: Boundaries
Boundaries are this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge. Below, lichens set out dark, circular boundaries atop a stone, and in the bottom photo, a wall seems to keep the snake on the wild side of the bricks. (In reality, he often uses the drainage holes to visit the house side and explore the garage.)

