Quonset Hut, sort of

This is one of my favorite houses in town, although a bit small for my tastes, as the bunnies like having more room to run(yeah, that's the reason). It's a quonset hut that someone has modified quite a bit. I'm fascinated by it, and more than a bit curious what it's like inside. The funny thing is it's right next door to one that doesn't seem to have been modified at all. I don't know why, but River Falls seems to have quite a bit of modified houses like this for it's size. Someday i'll get a picture of the farm with a barn and silo that seem to have been altered a lot, i love those.

Two young wild rabbits

Here are two very young wild bunnies in my front yard yesterday. Kind of hard to spot right away, but just adorable at how small they are. They were eating the dandelion leaves, a lot of them actually, natural lawn care.

Baby yard bunny

This is one of the two baby wild rabbits i saw in my yard the other day. It's good to see them out and about, but i worry about them, with traffic and predators. Not sure if you can tell how small this one was, only a bit bigger than my hand, with the other one i was unable to get a picture of smaller than my hand. They were eating dandelion leaves when i went out to check my mail.

Flamingo in the grass

This is one of my flamingos hiding the wet plants in my yard. Not the most stealthy, but doing what it can to stay dry and warm, but not really succeeding too well.

Wet Iris

Sensing a theme the last few days? ;) Yes, it's been raining a lot. So here is an iris in my yard that isn't looking too happy, along with a lot of people in the area the last few days. It actually feels like fall lately, which is a weird sensation for june.

Another wet bird

This is a younger bird that was wet and cold on my deck. The baby birds are getting more loud and hungry, i see baby grackles hopping around with mouths open and squawking for food, cute but loud. 

Wet, cold dove

This morning dove is wet and cold because it's been very cold here the last few days, and raining too. The rain we needed, as we were (not sure if we still are) under a drought, but the cold i could do without. it's been in the 50s (54F 12C right now) the last couple days, and that's much colder than it normally is, or even has been lately. There were reports of snow in Montana, but there are mountains there. Hopefully it doesn't snow here this summer. 

Scary day care sign

This is a sign for a day care that closed a while ago. I'm not sure who designed that clown logo, but it freaks me out. I'm not sure if they could have made a creepier clown if they tried. 

Old car

I saw this car on the way to the memorial day event. I love old cars, partly because my parents have a Model A Ford that my uncle restored and left to them after he passed. Summer seems to bring out a lot of the classic and antique cars. Pretty sure this is about as old as you can find around here though. 

Cows relaxing

A change of pace from the Memorial Day photos, some cows relaxing in a field on the edge of town. Not sure why took the picture, i think it's because they look so relaxed, or tied. 

Memorial Day, part 4

Another part of the parade. These girls were having a hard time with the flags blowing, as you might be able to tell from their expressions. The girl on the right was hit by the flag in front of her, or it came close at least. 

memorial Day, part 3

It was pretty windy on memorial day, as you might be able to tell from this picture of a scout and his leader trying to untangle a flag they were carrying. 

Memorial Day, part 2

Another photo from the event Memorial day yesterday. Not sure what they were talking about but i thought it made a good photo. 

Memorial Day 2009

Today is Memorial Day, an i got out a bit to the breaking in of the new memorial monument at the cemetery in the north part of town. I wanted to get at least one of the photos up today at least though.