Had to happen sometime

The weather looks bad but it really wasn't.

Sunday morning the weather appeared iffy when the dog and I headed out to the west end of the dirt road.  About half way through our walk the sun began to break through and the day appeared more promising.
As we arrived at the tunnel of trees I noticed that something I feared would happen has happened.   About an acre of the thick woods  next door to one of only two houses on that end of the road has been completely cleared with the exception of two trees.  It was a little shocking to see it happen so quickly.

Bulldozers do their work fast.

 I suppose someone will be building a house here.   Maybe another home in this area will cut down on the people who throw out their trash and dead fish on the road.  I wish I had taken a photo of the woods before they were cleared but I did not.

3,2,1, Sneeze. 

  As we walked back from the end of the road I noticed that allergy season is about to begin.  The Golden Rod or Rag weed is only a day or so from bursting into a wild blooming party that will last for the next month or so.  I feel sorry for those who are going to have to sneeze during that period.  As the weather becomes cooler at this time of the year I hope you will take the opportunity to go outside and take a look at your world before someone pushes it away with a bulldozer which is after all their right to do.  Thanks for reading my blog.  Bye.

Dress for success, take an umbrella

Not one of the more beautiful days here in paradise.

Saturday afternoon the dog and I ducked out between rain showers and managed to walk down to the east end of the paved road.  It was a dull gray afternoon walk but the temperature was low due to a weak cold front moving south.  When we arrived at the end of the road we saw that the hay I photographed the other day, has now been rolled up into bales.  We also saw that Zig-Zag the bull has broken into one of the bales already and made a mess. We saw a couple of the wild flowers that grow up this time of the year along our roadside. The first was Bladder pod.   This is a plant that grows along any untended roadside here in Grand Bay.  

They look like beans but their not.  

 It will grow to be 3 or 4 feet tall and after blooming the pods will appear.  They hang there until they dry and fall off.  The plants and seed are poisonous to domestic animals so most of the cattle folks around here work to keep this plant out of their fields and stored hay.   The other plant is a Showy Crotalaria which grows in spikes at this time of the year.

Crotalaria , pretty and dangerous.  

The yellow flower are very pretty and as the name implies are very showy.   The flowers eventually fall off and are replaced by hanging bean pods. The pods dry and the loose seeds in the pods make them sound like baby rattles or rattle snakes when you walk through them in the winter.   These plants and their seeds are poisonous to cattle as well.   All these poisonous plants must make cattle ranching a difficult task around here.  I can look down the road where I walk and see both Bladder pod and Crotalaria growing in profusion up and down the road.  I guess they are a fixture.  Thanks for reading my blog.  Bye.