Here's something green for St. Patrick's Day: Los Angeles Harbor at San Pedro. This bridge is green, if you can see it. Here's a better green bridge - it took me a while to think of it: Selvatura Park, Costa Rica

Annie, here's an armadillo baby that came walking through my brother's yard in Florida, years ago. I was very close to it and it pretty much ignored me. It reminded me of a opossum in it's single mindedness of getting from point A to point B, wherever that was. I don't think they are interested in people, biting or otherwise. This one seemed pretty peaceful and very interesting to see. Oh and it's in the grass. LOL

Nothing like the intense blue skies of autumn. We don't get much fall color here - these are from CT 2019:

There are two horses here. The one nearest is my sweet, cranky, opinionated, chestnut mare, school horse Lady. On the other side is my instructor's gelding. I thought all was lost when my old instructor had to shut down her business due to the draconian shutdowns in my county during the pandemic. But those two horses saved my sanity, and kept my life normal while so many were in isolation. I am forever grateful that I was allowed to continue riding though out the craziness. I was a beginning English rider. Lady made me into the western rider I am today. She suffered through all my errors, and bonded with me as a partner. In the midst of the crazy I said I wanted to enter a virtual endurance race. My instructor who I consider my mentor, is a cantankerous old horseman. He looked at me like I had grown a third eye, then shook his head and grinned, and said I could use her for the 3 months I had to get it done. He suffers through my attitude and we also have a bond. That bond was formed as rode and got through some personal rough times. Words weren't needed. We focused on riding. Getting a green rider through a hundred trail miles during a pandemic, a fire, light and darkness, heat waves and downpours is quite a task, but the four of us did it. Came in way ahead of many who own their own horses. In fact I do believe she was the only by the hour school horse entered. I not only gained the skills I have today but I gained a new family, became even more mentally tough, physically fitter and found a new path to follow. I am forever grateful for that and Lady is symbolic of that time and experience. I've moved on to more advanced horses but I still ask to take her on a long trail ride now and then. When I do, it's like we never parted.