Looking Up ... and Down

 When I looked outside about 8 am I noticed, what I call, a ghost moon, and stepped outside to snap a photo.. or two.

It seems to my left was fairly blue sky with the ghost of a moon. 

I think something caught my eye and I looked to the left... and there was a big old Rainbow!   I can't remember the last one I saw.. I know it wasn't here in Florida which is surprising giving how much and how often it rains here!

I had brought some bread out with me (naturally) and had given it to the Moorhens but I wasn't going to take pictures today of them.. but at the last moment I did snap this one shot... just like a kid... giving his mama grief!

Later in the day........... there was a knock on my door and our maintenance man, Mark, called me outside to see something...

Look at this!

It's the first time I've seen a turtle, from the pond, on land!  How strange that would happen so soon after I took that picture of the turtle nose in the pond! It's hard to tell in the photo.. they were quite large turtles!

After I took this photo of Woody (above) one of the people living here talked to me and told me that last year there were several Wood storks that stayed at the pond all winter!

I am just fascinated at how they stir up the bottom and then find what they want to eat for such big birds... and the fact that their feel are the color of human skin and even look "human"!

Below is one of the trees around the pond (which I have yet to find anyone who know what type of tree this is.)..  we have a lot of Spanish Moss that grows over all of them to some degree

That's all there is for today from the Pond.

If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my
knees.