When I looked at your post last night, there was just a blank, white space. Maybe a snowy, whited-out landscape? 
How do you paste a picture again? Can I just paste a snip?
I uploaded it to IMGUR and pasted the link in my message.
Right, thanks. I’ll give it a whirl later.
The image URL has to be on its own line. Nothing else on that line.
And be a link to the picture file itself, not a link to a page which contains the picture.
I live in a rural area. Our house is surrounded by woods and pastures, and we can see the houses of the neighbors, but just barely. I love everything about it. One of the coolest things around is this sweet-hearted donkey. This is Joey. A neighbor gave him to us when we moved in. Free donkey, hell yeah! He gets a lot of visitors.
What lake is that, and how warm does the water get in summer?
I wish we had a donkey!
All we have are deer:
Let him in!
When we adopted our dogs from a rescue organization, the lady who was fostering them also offered us a couple of miniature donkeys. We said no. Biggest regret of my life!
I want a donkey! At May Fair in my new neighborhood, there was a petting zoo. I looked to see what animals you could pet ( chickens, kid goats, a lamb, a dwarf pot bellied pig, and bunnies) . I asked how long you could stay in the enclosure and pet the animals. They said for as long as you wanted. U asked how much it cost. They said three dollars.
I rushed to the ticket table to get a ticket. The man selling tickets seemed confused. He was explaining that if I was buying a ticket for my child, I got in for free. I said I was alone.
I briefly worried that the people in my neighborhood would think me strange and possibly dangerous. But, petting zoo! Once I was inside the fence, I saw many other adults who were not accompanied by children.
I really like my new neighborhood and actually seem to fit in here.
Pink, one-layer blossoms (there’s another way to say that, but I can’t think of it). The individual flowers aren’t at all impressive, it’s just the large numbers of them.
I remember in my childhood home we had what my mother called a rambler rose (I think there’s a difference between climbing and rambling roses) by the back door, in a deep red. I always liked those better than any of her rose bushes on the side of the house.
In our house in the suburbs of Fort Washington, we had deer and a whole family of ground hogs. We were at a gathering at somebody’s house telling a stranger about the deer in our backyard, he started telling us how to keep deer off our property. We were all about to interrupt him and explain that we really enjoyed the deer. He then began telling us how to kill the deer without using guns.
All of us were horrified and disgusted.
My first apartment did not have any deer. It did have rabbits, ground hogs, skunks and foxes.
We love the deer, but I wish they wouldn’t eat my roses. I made a sign to put up, but I don’t think they can read:
Lake Michigan in snow and ice
I have this carving I got at a local antique shop. I love this thing. It’s about 18 inches tall. Just looking at it, one might suppose that the face is carved from a piece of wood, and some stuff was attached to it to represent the beard.
However, a look at the back reveals the truth: the whole thing is half of some kind of huge root, and the beard is composed of rootlets growing out from it.
Your carving is so neat. The sculpter such care in making it, accounting for durability and all. I’m not an expert but I think that’s fine art for sure.
Actually, I just now sought out this thread because I was really interested to see what people would post. I had been disappointed that it was languishing. I was going to add a post just to bump the thread up where people would see it more, in hopes of restarting it.
So I was very pleased to see a whole lot of new posts!
All of you have very interesting art, decor, landscaping, and animals. I hope this thread goes on for a long time.
My FIL installed motion-sensing sprinklers. That system helped his Florida deer to read!
I will leave the coolness quotient to all of you, but here are two entries.
First, these book-ends were a retirement present given to my father. He was an electrical engineer and some of his designs were used by a major steel mill here in Canada. Someone at the steel mill cut and polished these book-ends from railroad rails, they weigh around 12 pounds each.
We had our backyard redone last fall and needed to divert the down spouts from the roof to rain barrels. I had to take 2 pictures of the one on the south side because there are cedar trees blocking the view. Bonus entry, I just finished building the stairs last weekend.
