Mr. Grumpypants, right, seems full of vinegar on a wet morning. His dining companion, left, seems a bit taken aback.
Mother Goose
Goose and pair of goslings on a family outing in the rain in Goshen, Arkansas. There were two families of geese with goslings close in age. The group seemed to move together always in the two days we saw them.


The stark beauty of a foggy winter’s day
For most of the last week, winter has cast a foggy, rainy spell over our part of the Arkansas Ouachitas. This is how nature makes her own monochromes.


Weekly photo challenge: Containers
“Containers” is the theme of this week’s WordPress photo challenge. Pondered on this for a few hours before realizing that containers can be broader than simply a can or a pot. Each droplet was a container of sort — each held a micro image of the world around it.

Other containers we liked:
- Rolling “tin cans.” – http://dewetswild.com/2014/07/18/containers/
- Storm in a bottle – http://polymathically.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/weekly-photo-challenge-containers-or-storm-in-a-bottle/
- In Nepal – http://scottseyephotos.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/weekly-photo-challenge-container/
- Well contained – http://clickychickcreates.com/2014/07/18/containers-beauty-within-photo-challenge/
- Olympic sized container – http://michealdebarra.com/2014/07/18/weekly-photo-challenge-containers/