8 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

When do they usually drop their antlers? Most if not all of ours have dropped theirs by now.

I can't say for certain, but you can see that the smaller one in the first pic has lost one side, whether that was a drop, or lost earlier from a fight or something else who knows.

 

We have this weird thing in Alabama where our population is made up of native and non-native populations that all rut at different times.  Just two weeks ago that same buck was chasing a single or pair of Does every time I saw it, now it's co existing like it might be over.  

 

Unraveling Alabama’s Rut(s) (buckmasters.com)

 

“There are several oddball areas. If you look on the map and check the (color-coded) dots, you’ll see where the deer came from. You’ll see deer from Wisconsin or Texas and where they were placed throughout the state.

Even though it’s been 50 or 60 years ago, the rut still mirrors the basic genetics of that deer herd. So there are isolated pockets in Alabama, unlike any other place in the nation where I’ve worked, where you’ve got deer rutting in November, December, January and February. You’ve got months that, depending on where you are in the state, you can hunt the rut.

“If I’m managing property in Illinois or Ohio, you’ve got two weeks you can hunt the rut, and then you may have two weeks with a small secondary rut. In Alabama, in some places, you can hunt part of the rut four months out of the year. It’s unlike any other place in the country.”

One of the 10 best things you can do on a bicycle, Laguna Atascosa NWR.  All the one-lane macadam roads in the 38,000 acre preserve were closed to motor vehicles more than a dozen years ago to protect the ocelot population.  Now they belong to pedals.  

The front bag has an ice mule and beer for this stop.  

 

 

Our routine before I leave for work.

An aerial view of the Copper Peak Ski Jump in Ironwood, MI.

Sixth largest ski jump in the world ~ 

#hardpass

A-Jay

7 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

An aerial view of the Copper Peak Ski Jump in Ironwood, MI.

Sixth largest ski jump in the world ~ 

#hardpass

Even when I was an avid downhiller, I avoided built-jumps like the plague, though I had no issue getting some air-time off of moguls.

 

That thing scares me.

Pup loves the snow...

 

Party time on the couch (invited). They love their inside time every night. ?

8 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

Pup loves the snow...

 

Party time on the couch (invited). They love their inside time every night. ?

Oh my word hahahahaha

A "false fall" photo from my files, using Ektachrome color infrared film. All you oldster photographers remember Ektachrome and Kodachrome don't you ??

10 minutes ago, BayouSlide said:

A "false fall" photo from my files, using Ektachrome color infrared film. All you oldster photographers remember Ektachrome and Kodachrome don't you ??

Nice ~ I remember Kodachrome

And so does Paul Simon . . . . 

?

A-Jay

30 minutes ago, BayouSlide said:

A "false fall" photo from my files, using Ektachrome color infrared film. All you oldster photographers remember Ektachrome and Kodachrome don't you

Ya - ran quite a few rolls through my Minolta XD-5 back in the day. Still have the camera - over 40 years old now but still in perfect working order.

16 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Ya - ran quite a few rolls through my Minolta XD-5 back in the day. Still have the camera - over 40 years old now but still in perfect working order.

Sold all my Nikon and Leica film cameras after I left the pro ranks and I went digital, but still have a couple of "wall hangers," a Rolleicord twin lens reflex and a Bakelite (early form of plastic) bodied Zeiss Ikon my dad liberated from a stash in Germany during WWII.

17 hours ago, A-Jay said:

An aerial view of the Copper Peak Ski Jump in Ironwood, MI.

Sixth largest ski jump in the world ~ 

#hardpass

A-Jay

Nope

22 hours ago, A-Jay said:

An aerial view of the Copper Peak Ski Jump in Ironwood, MI.

Sixth largest ski jump in the world ~ 

#hardpass

 

A-Jay

I got queasy just looking at that pic. 

Don't post that again, son.  

I think it's gonna take me a bit to uncover the truck

15 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

Pup loves the snow...

 

Party time on the couch (invited). They love their inside time every night. ?

The human is in the way. ?

He’s not smart enough to know his name, only responds to kitty. He is smart enough to tell time. Every night between 7-7:30 he sits by my wife, looks in my direction, and meows. He’s telling me it’s time to play with the red dot. 
 

 

53 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

He’s not smart enough to know his name, only responds to kitty. He is smart enough to tell time. Every night between 7-7:30 he sits by my wife, looks in my direction, and meows. He’s telling me it’s time to play with the red dot. 
 

 

We had one that was exactly the same. Boy was he ever mad the day the batteries died on that laser ?

 

Waterfall in Adirondack Mountains of New York

A couple more from last weekend 4-day trip to far s. Texas.  

The palapa with Stevo's solostove fire pit was a hit for entertaining the girls on the cool nights.  

Stevo also had a griddle top for the firepit, with a stovetop pizza oven and 700-degree stone.  

  

 

No one is ever going to out-do Susie in the kitchen - her star for the trip was a lemon buttermilk pie.  

Hey @bulldog1935

Anyway to convince Susie to send a pie up to a certain Jigfish's residence in New England?  

@Jigfishn10

If we didn't ride those bicycles, you could roll us all down the NWR macadam.  

Boating used to mean something different to me ~ #USCG

A-Jay

 

12 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Boating used to mean something different to me ~ #USCG

A-Jay

 

The coastie version of a Nantucket Sleigh Ride.

59 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Boating used to mean something different to me ~ #USCG

A-Jay

 

Surprised you weren’t behind it water skiing. ? Cool picture