I Took a Neat Picture Last Night...
 

Last night while I was walking toward the sweetest music never sang in church, I walked up on a sight that made me stop and just take it in.

A mama wild turkey was setting on a nest, and never even moved when I walked up.

I snapped a picture, and here it is:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...pring07030.jpg

Cool.

I love the wild fern too!

Serendipitous moments like this one are part of what makes me love the woods so much.

You never know when you are going to encounter some incredible scene.

Was the song...... "Turkey in the Straw?"

I'm a little bit conflicted here...I was going to say, that "if you have to walk through a field in order to get to the front steps of your church..."


"You might be a redneck..." Then it occured to me,

No redneck would ever be able to figger out the deely bob to get the time and date stamp correct on their digital camera...

:slaphappy

Exactly why I wouldn't be walking in the woods at night!

I'm down in Hesston right now. It sure is some beautiful country here. I drove in on 81 from Nebraska. I think it's a more pleasant view then driving across to KC. Right around Salina some huge bird flew up and almost hit my windshield, nearly frightened me to death.

I didn't realize this part of the country had so much wooded area. I always thought it was flat and wheat fields, LOL.

LOL...

It sure wasn't "Bile Them Cabbage Down." ;)

My great granddad was an old country fiddler who played for square dances all over the area where I was raised.

He knew all those old tunes.

Oh, I was sooooo gonna post that!

Jam, you passed pretty close to my house.

hesston is around an hour away from me.

I got the camera at a pawn shop, and the date was already set.:)

I don't buy new ones because I can never get them set right.

Don't -- it tells your age....... :thad

If I get time and I'm still here on Sunday. I was thinking about coming to visit your church. However I didn't bring any church clothes with me. So I'll have to jean it. Hope that's okay?

You know it's ok.

I can get you directions if you like.

I remember hearing "Bile Them Cabbage Down" here in Ohio.

LOL, yeah I knew it would be. Directions would be good. I'm really hoping that I can get a break on Sunday if I'm still here.

Well, we better watch ole CS out in the woods with his Wild Turkey

If I get time and can find a Walmart around here I'll get some more of churchy type pants. I think there should be something in Newton. It looks like a big enough town.

I don't know much about hunting and whatnot, but I do know that it is very difficult and rare to be able to get this close to a wild turkey.

An uncle of mine was a heavy drinker, and not a churchgoing man.

His siter, my Aunt, was always talking to him about thew Lord, trying to be a witness.

He would always tell her, "I take the Lord fishing with me every time I go."

What she didn't realize was that he was talking about Lord Calvert, his whiskey of choice.

Awesome!

Don't worry about it.

Jeans are fine.

I have never gotten this close to one before, quite.

I have snuck up pretty close to them, but never this close.

I think she just didn't want to leave her nest.

LadyRev and I went to her woods tonight. We saw a deer and a turkey that was in flight. We saw several turkeys along the way and another deer across from her property.

I can't wait til November!

LR is going turkey hunting this weekend. My kids and I are staying at the cabin with her and play games by propane light. It's gonna be cool.

What are you doing out there???

And I also didn't think Kansas had trees.....LOL!

I love the woods and love the smell particularly. Some of my best memories are being with my dad in the woods when he went hunting. Had a boyfriend who I used to go with occasionally as well. :)

When I was a kid I loved to go wandering by myself through fields and woods and would have all these adventures. Imagination is the most wonderful thing!

There's not many!! :)

I don't like the woods. Too many little "creatures" are there thinking that that part of the woods belongs to them and not me and I am the enemy. Soooo, I let them have it to themselves!!!

:thad

We lived for a few years on a country lane where there were few houses. The road was basically a dead end and ended at a lodge/camp type of affair. There were no street lights past our house.

I used to walk down that road a LOT. It was beautiful - especially in the winter after a fresh snowfall. I used to walk it occasionally at night with only moon and stars lighting the way. I loved the quietness, hearing the crunch of snow under my boots and the air so crisp and clean. And in the winter you didn't have to worry much about meeting anything remotely dangerous.

I certainly wouldn't do that here I can tell you. It wouldn't be animals I'd be worried about either -- but people!

Ticks are the best. I picked several off LR today and she called a little bit ago and found two more. I told her she ain't sleeping with me in the cabin with her little friends!!

I, on the other hand, wearing capris instead of a skirt (which is a tick picker upper in the woods), had NOT ONE tick on me!!!

Not me!!!! Now my oldest son is not afraid to walk home a mile in the DARK through the WOODS from coonhunting with his dad. UH-UH, no way, not me. I'm too chicken.

I was scared REALLY bad when I was a little girl, around 5 years old, by these girls that lived down the road from one of our friends. The girl was hispanic and DID NOT like "whities" as she called us. She was cussing me out and I told her if she didn't quit, I was going to tell on her, as a 5 year would. Well, she didn't stop so I stepped outside the door and all the adults were talking and I was taught that you DO NOT interrupt adults ever, unless it was an emergency, so I didn't. I stayed out for a while and then went back in. Later they asked me to with Rhonda to "walk her home." So, like a dummy, I did. When we got there I stayed outside waiting on Rhonda to show up and she and this girl and her 4 sisters came out and 2 held Rhonda and 2 took me to the woods behind her house and absolutely tormented me with all kinds of things. The one thing I remember so vividly was they got a paint glove that was really "hairy" and they had me blindfolded so I couldn't see anything, and it was really dark anyway, and they told me that it was wild animal and rubbed it all over my face and arms and legs. I was screaming bloody murder and my mom and Rhonda's mom were coming to check on us, because we were gone so long, and they heard my screams. They started yelling and the girls heard them and DRUG me back to the house, ripped off the blindfold, and threw me down on the cement and threatened me that if I told they'd come and get my little sister and do unspeakable things to her. Well, my mom and Jerry heard them threaten me and my mother came unlgued at the seams, oh my word, it was bad. Well, the girls mom heard all the commotion and came outside. Wrong thing to do. My mom snatched her off the porch and started whuppin up on her for allowing her girls to do what they did to me. They finally pulled my mom off of her and we went home.

My Daddy and Rhonda's daddy started up there, and I started screaming and crying and begging them not to because they would hurt Dedra, my sister, and they finally decided not to because I was sooooo upset.

I couldn't sleep by myself for WEEKS.

It was awful. At times, that feeling of fear still comes over me at night, if I can't see the light. Yucky!!!

Oh my goodness! That would have been terrifying for sure! I can't even imagine! I can well understand your fear then.

Those kids were horrible and what's even worse is that they grow up to be nasty adults and that kind of behavior often still continues and it's passed on from generation to generation.

No wonder you're still haunted by it occasionally. I can understand why.

I went hunting with the Skinner ONE time and VOWED to NEVER go again. We had to cross 3 barbed wired fences, walk up a really high "holler", almost got sprayed by a FAMILY of SKUNKS, mo joke. A Moma and her babies, didn't stay to count how many babies she had, though,. I had scratches on my....well, we won't go there, but it was bad and by the time we got back to the truck, the dog we had was sitting in the truck, behind the steering wheel, and evidentally he ran into the family of skunks, at least he smelled like he had been sprayed by ALL of them. It was halarious!!!! I was so mad at John for getting us "lost" and then we see that stupid dog sitting behind the wheel in Donnies truck.

Needless to say, I rode home in the back of the pickup. The dog got left so the smell could wear off for a while.

What a horrible story! Things that happen to us when we are children affect us later in life. And there is nothing you can do about it.

I hope those girls got what they deserved eventually.

Have mercy!!! I've been hunting nigh onto 30 years and spent many a day and many a night in the woods and have seen some downright incredible things. But to this day I have never seen a flying deer. :hypercoffee

Just so long as you don't run into a Skunk you'll do fine!:hypercoffee

Hey Sis. You could write a book and call it ......

"My Adventures With the Skinner"


;) :)

Hehe. :)