Gila's Place

This kid is a trip  “Hey Aunt Gila, take my picture when I jump.” Looks like a little spiderman. 

Out for a drive with mom and had the pleasure of watching a Great Egret enjoy a meal in a low spot. There was pooling all over the water and I wasn’t…

Mom and I just happened to be out for a drive and rolled up on an upon the accident around 8:00 p.m. We had to turn around and cut through the cemetery…

Populations looks to be doing well this year; two to three does to each young buck. Seeing a lot of swollen bellies which means we will be seeing itty bitty bambies all…

I wasn’t fast enough to catch the small raccoon or beautiful red fox that I saw, and I almost missed out on the turkey. I only made it about 20 yard up…

When I walked upon my straw bale garden and saw a forest of tall, lanky mushrooms growing about every inch of my bales, I panicked. I thought for sure I had done…

When I first came across the idea of straw bale gardening I thought it was too simple to work. I watched a few dozen videos about it, bought a book on the…

March 31st called for high winds, hail, and tornadoes. Although the tornadoes and hail missed my immediate area the lightening show and wind was pretty outrageous. The first couple of images below…

My area seems to have an abundance of really old cemeteries. I’ve photographed a few but haven’t added any to the site. The header image is Winkle Cemetery where I am pretty…

Birds argued at the feeder all day. The wrens are just full of themselves. Going back to the strawbale garden this year. I look forward to no weeds, no bending, and abundant…

I highly recommend cruising country roads every chance you get. Listen to a little music, or not. Definitely roll the windows down for good airflow into the lungs. And if it’s winter…

Been wanting to run by this gorgeous church for awhile and managed a drive by with my cell-cam. Awesome graveyard where the vast majority of the stones have cross on top. I…

Illinois has 27 million acres of farmland. Just to put that into perspective, the entire state is just 37,064,960 acres. That means 73% of Illinois is agriculture. Of that 27 million, 24…

Had the pleasure of watching a falcon hunt for a meal today. He gave about a 35 minute show before he dropped on something small in the field at a distance too…

Russian fisherman “Roman Fedortsov” has been working the sea for nearly 22 years. He has been documenting images of strange and terrifying deep-sea creatures being pulled from his nets. Wow! https://www.instagram.com/p/mj8jxspJF8/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=bfccef75-a6aa-4378-a8b0-c8dfc52564e5 https://www.instagram.com/p/mzbFMTJJAr/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=3caceded-819a-4beb-94b6-55ff5c5c7f81…

Feeders were packed yesterday. Snow seems to bring them all to the window.

Deer have been out in mass for the last week or so. Here’s a few (and a hawk and a turkey) from today during a ride with mom. It’s our first cruise…

Last week mother nature tried to kill us with zero degree weather; 20 something below zero with wind chill. Today resembled the tropics at almost sixty degrees and now a major downpour…