Journal updated Sunday night the 31st - the stormy trip home, and hours in the jungle. Prints Of The Week Special. There's just something about the fresh spring greens with that bright blue sky and crystalline water. The river is just the right level so we can hear music drifting up from deep in the canyon below. And holy mocking bird there are TONS of birds playing all over the place! I suspect many are going about the business of raising babies, others looking for a mate to make a few babies.
I just stepped outside tonight to take a shower, and moonlight really lit up the landscape - it was quite easy to see all around, bright enough to produce well-defined shadows. The shower smelled like rain, and my towel like sunshine - the towel had been on a deck rail all day soaking up the sun. Lots of critter noises tonight - one scream in particular I don't recall ever hearing before.
Must be time to go upstairs and crawl under the covers to hide! I'll be up again before the moon sets - leaving at 5am to meet our next workshop group for some early-morning shooting While out hiking with the pups I came around a corner and looked ahead and saw Mia staring down what appeared to be a cobra right in front of her!
My first thought was of a hognose snake, which will often mimic cobras to try and scare off other critters, but this snake was much to large for a hognose. Then I thought it might be a big old timber rattler about to strike our little Miss Mia, so I put it into high gear and sprinted toward Mia and the snake, waving my arms and yelling as her. Mia backed off. Wilson stopped in his tracks.
But then LUCY came charging right on past me and up into the face of that big snake - in fact Lucy ran right on up and got nose-to-nose with the big black king snake! Harmless snake, but I was about to have a heart attack. We're trying to teach the pups NOT to approach snakes - dogs get bit in the face when they get close to sniff. Later on while we were crossing a wide meadow I looked up and saw both pups hunkered down sniffing something in the grass.
