Sunday Snaps

The Festival of Hawks was on this weekend after the storm and clean up last week. Unfortunately, Mother Nature still had her way as due to the heavy equipment used for cleaning up and the change in wind direction there weren't any hawks or hummingbirds to be caught, banded and released. I adopted a Merlin hawk anyway just to make a donation. Maybe next year I will get to help band and release.  On a happy note, I learned some new things, made a donation and Kingsport Environmental was there with a Great Horned Owl, Snowy Owl, Eurasian Eagle Owl, and a Harris Hawk so I got some good photos.

Great Horned Owl

Eurasian Eagle Owl

Snowy Owl

Harris Hawk

Since I was in the mood for taking pictures I subjected Harlow to a bit of dress-up.  She was a trooper, cookie bribes help quite a bit as well.  Here is my little chocolate Labracorn ♥

Lucky Labs Harlow Grace

Hard to believe the end of September is near, this month has flown by!! 

Mother Nature Interfered

We had a heck of a storm Friday. It got really dark around 4:30, the wind whipped up and the rain came. Boy did it come, the wind was quite wicked as well. We sat in the living room watching it rain so hard you couldn’t see out the living room window. About 5:30 it was all over, the sky bright like nothing had happened. Something DID happen though, trees were uprooted, power line knocked down, branches everywhere and a house had its roof torn off. Here in town, it was just a storm. The conservation area that was to host the Hawk Festival sustained heavy tree damage and was forced to close this weekend for the safety of the public as they clean up.

photo by Dax Melmer

photo by Dax Melmer

It turned into a beautiful evening as Harlow and I went for a walk around 7:30 with the only evidence of a storm being the puddles. I might add Harlow had to walk through E.V.E.R.Y puddle as we walked. A beautiful night sky and calm waters, hard to believe the weather was so violent just hours earlier.