Choconut Creek

Today I put on my creek sneaks and walked the Choconut, the creek that ends up running through my backyard when it floods.




It was calm today.

Look who came across the creek to check me out:



He kept coming closer, and closer:



Until I finally clapped my hands to shoo him away. I think he thought I was his mama.

There were tadpoles:



And a heron, and kingfishers, and pileated woodpeckers, and a hawk who circled above me and voiced her displeasure at my presence:

And when I looked down after snapping pics of the hawk, there were minnows looking to snack on my sneaks:

And there was a deer jawbone:

I'm tellin' ya, the deer always find me. I wish I knew why.