The Holler bunnies are practically tame,
probably because we feed them carrots,
with the express understanding they eat the carrots and not my flowers!
What we have here is a failure to communicate,
not all that uncommon among neighbors.
Cheers to you from The Holler’s funny-bunnies~
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Your rabbit photos are so sweet Cindy. 🙂
Thank you for your kind sentiments my friend & cheers to you!
So cute!!
They are! <3
Oh, Cindy, I just LOVE bunnies, and you’ve got some dandy photos here!! Don’t you want to pick one up and cuddle it?? Look how delicate their ears are, with the veins showing through. Yes, even though they eat everything in sight!!
I got on after school restriction for a week in seventh grade for taking the biology teacher’s bunnies out of the class aquarium and cuddling them during lunch. A nasty class mate told on me or the teacher would never have known. I would do the same thing now in a heart beat. <3
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So cute <3
So glad you like them too!
Can you add a Twitter share button–yes, I’m that lazy LOL
For you, yes indeed! <3 And thank you~
You’re awesome 🙂
We all need variety in our diets. 🙂
Consider where you and I would be without chocolate……no, no, don’t do that, it’s too depressing~
I’ve had to give up chocolate for two weeks. Blueberries are just not the same.
No they aren’t unless you have them on cake with whipping cream……
Looks so cute and fragile
Yes, to both qualities. Thank you for noticing~
You’re welcome
They do love the taste of roses. 🙂
Erckles! Now that would be a major non-non! Thank goodness my roses have so many thorns and there is so much easier stuff for them to reach to eat. They don’t like mint or herbs. I have lots of both! 😉
Cindy, they are adorable and so much tamer than here. Of course you know what happens to them here… Have you ever priced lapin in the shops? 🙂 xx
Laughing, no, but I hope it is VERY expensive! I was talking to my son who is a vegetarian (I am almost one now too) and telling him about how plants scream when vegetarians come near them (cuz I’ve heard them), and he introduced me to Tool’s song, ‘Disgustipated’ which was pretty damn hilarious. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously, too much of the time~
😉 😉
Oh Cindy you are so right! we do take ourselves too seriously. I’ve never been fond of eating meat and don’t even bring it into my home. However, when invited into share a meal with my French friends, I do try to eat what I am served. Yes, Lapin is quite expensive and forgive me I did not know what I was eating at the home of a friend but it was delicious. I’ve not had it again and that is okay. I must confess that I do adore good seafood and being so close to the sea here, it is plentiful… Please have a wonderful rest of the summer. Alas it always runs away too fast for me. 🙂 🙂 xx
I would never presume to advise someone what they should do or eat, so you have no worries about me Lea. I have a hard enough time telling myself what to do, and not do! Life to me without humor everyday would not be worth much and there is so much to laugh about in myself, in people who take themselves too seriously, animals, celebrity culture, everything! It helps to counteract the now daily onslaught of human violence and insanity. Be well my dear friend~
So cute! We same to have that same failure to communicate with our friendly deer! 😀
It’s a real problem. Don’t they have any compassion for the poor plants????? 😉 😉
😉
So adorable when they aren’t in my garden!
Yes!! <3
Beautiful !!!
They really are gorgeous little beauties~
So sweet, Cindy!
He’s here right now. I think he knows we like him~
Love these fragile looking ears…
Well, I am sure he can hear what we are typing….. 😉
it proves the fact, that big ears dont always lead to good understanding. Beautiful Pictures. I counted the hairs on the last pic and found 3 675 890. Did you also Count that?
Right! He listens and listens, just like the hummingbirds when I tell them to stop fighting. They just don’t get. So frustrating. Like trying to reason with Donald Trump~
great comparison!
<3
Cutest bunnies ever! They are such fun to watch. (Those big ears do help them keep cool…as if just being a bunny wasn’t cool enough)
It does help to cool in this heat and of course they have super-sonic hearing. One of the bunnies is here right now, eating my garden and watching me. I think he knows we’re talking about him~
Gah! They are so cute! Even if they do eat your flowers.
Alison
Agreed! Where are you now Alison? Stil in San Miguel?
Gish no. We had two months in La Manzanilla, and then we came back to Vancouver at the end of May.
Great shots!!!
Thanks my friend and hope all is going well with you~
Please do the same, Cindy.
There really aren’t enough adjectives to tell you how fabulous these pictures are. I’m madly in love with the bunny and the pictures are just amazing.
Ahhh, people like you are why I love blogging~ <3 <3
They look like Bugs Bunnies (jackrabbits). Cute but they can probably do a lot of damage to flowers. It’s a failure to communicate indeed. Good pictures, Cindy. 🙂 — Suzanne
Pleased you enjoyed Bugs and his friends and cheers to you Suzanne~
Wonderful captures, love the innocent expression. ‘I didn’t eat those flowers…’ 🙂
That expression works like a charm too. Probably was evolutionarily highly adaptive back in the neanderthal days!
Lol! If they only nibble on your flowers, I guess that’s okay…. not?
Basically, whatever they do is okay. They live here and they are so loveable. I’m actually learning a lot in completely different directions than my previous life, since I retired, and have been living at The Holler.
Coming to Canada in about 5 weeks now, to hang out with the grizzlies in the Knight Inlet. It’s not like I’ve been waiting for this for over a year or anything……. 😉
such cute eyes…they look like chocolate buttons!
Like the bunnies our parents always gave us when we were children, chocolate or stuffed, to prove to us the world was a good place.
Great shots they are just too cute! My mom has problems with them too eating her flowers I hear about it quite often lol..
The deal is, there is nothing you can do about it except pray they have burrows so you can watch the baby bunnies when they first venture out. If you sing to them and feed them, they are like these watchful little wild non-pettable pets, that look at you as you type on your computer, as if to say, when will you come out and take my picture and sing to me? The wild birds do this in different ways too, so do the coyotes. It is pretty amazing….It has been a huge learning curve for me.
Thanks for your insight Cindy, sounds like you are very blessed!
You and Peggy should really get together on lecturing to animals, Cindy. You both seem to be equally effective. (grin) They sure are cute little buggers. –Curt
Without even meeting Peggy, I am certain we are equally effective. I bet we had a lot of practice being effective lecturing humans in order for you to come to this accurate conclusion.
You both rock my socks off~
Now I am smiling. Lots of practice, I’m sure, Cindy. 🙂 –Curt
Sweet. I agree though, it’s a pity our gardening neighbours can’t read the notices and signposts.
It’s like the hummingibird feeders which the manafacturer clearly labeled, “Bee and Wasp Proof!” Unfortunately the bees either can’t or won’t read.
Hey Cindy– does that work?? feeding them carrots? We have friends with bunnies in the yard often and they put in sprinkles in they flower beds that are motion sensitive to ward off flower eating bunnies! In any case, they are adorable!!
Yes, it works, but a blogger told me it makes the rabbits sick and I looked it up and it is true!
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Hehehehe…Velveteen Rabbit, or Watership Down?
A bit of both don’t you think! 😻😻
So sweet and those ears! Those ears!
So sentient and aware too. I can really see this on zoom looking in their peaceful eyes~
OMG, Cindy..I love these pics–never have I seen better bunny pics..u capture their unique persona perfectly…😻😻😻😍😍😍😍😘
Awwww, it takes a sensitive person to even know that bunnies have personas, which of course, they do! Thank you. <3 <3 😻😻
They r just bouncing with personality!!!
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Adorable pictures, dear Cindy. 🙂
Blessings ~ Wendy
Visa versa 2Ux2 Wendy! <3
Stunning! I love those black, glassy eyes!
They are quite intense and look unblinkingly right at you!
Ich nehme an, dass dies ein Zuchtkaninchen ist. Bei uns sind die Feldhasen selten geworden, weil die intensive Landwirtschaft keinen Lebensraum mehr bietet.
Grüsse Ernst
Ja, die Wildkaninchen bruten hier und wir haben viele von ihnen! Hoffe, alles ist gut mit Ihnen meinen Freund~
Gotta love bunnies!! Adorable!! Your photos are exquisite, of course, you had cute models! I once had a bunny, his name was Benjamin (how original, eh?). 🙂
<3 carmen
Sometimes a name is so perfect it must be reused! 😻😻
Absolutely precious <3
Awww, so happy you thinks so & thank you~
Don’t laugh, but I have always been afraid of rabbits!
No I will not laugh because I am honored you told me. Everyone is afraid of some things and it is not funny. I’m afraid of things too, but not you. You I love. <3
Love you too!!!!
That bunny is so Peter Rabbit! Such a fun pic!
He is every fictional bunny personified perfectly! Lucky little wabbit~
Hi Cuz,
Yes…, they’re cute, and cuddly looking, and oh, so innocent acting…, but them dam’ cottontails ate my green beans, plants and all, and then started on the snow peas. “I’ll get that wabbit !!!” Great pics, but, I’m still mad at that darn bunny. Oh, well, guess we won’t be having snow peas or green beans from the garden this year. Hugs !
But just be pleased to think how much the bunnies loved you beans and peas! Laughing….I am being callous.
I hear your pain.
“Don’t eat my ganzanias you bugs-bunny, they are only now just starting to take off after 8 hard Holler years!”
Oh well, they are so damn sweet, whatca gonna do?
Hope you are well cuz~ <3
He’s fabulous, Cindy 🙂 And he looks like a little kangaroo.
xoxo <3
He does! A kangaroo with very big ears! Happy Friday!
🙂 Yes, a kangaroo with big ears.
xoxo <3
Tee hee hee~ 😎
I love your bunnies, Cindy. I bet you have a lot to do with them being ever so friendly. I had a bunny for a short time last year [evidence found in my rose garden] and saw him briefly a couple times but we’re a neighborhood and bunnies don’t last long, unfortunately.
Last night a twleve year old southern pacific rattlesnake showed up inside our fences. She is huge! I think the rabbits are at risk!
Yes, I think you are right about the rabbits being at risk. As kids, we had the opportunity to see lots of bunnies when Dad was mowing alpha for the cattle in winter. Often the rabbit nest would be mowed over and mother rabbit and her babbies would be exposed to the elements. Dad made it our mission to cover the nest with fresh alpha he had just cut and add pellets of grains they were used to eating in the wild in hopes they would survive. We were not allowed to touch. I’m afraid of rattlesnakes, we had a lot of them in Kansas. A few weeks ago I barely missed a coppermouth while I was gardening. Needless to say I moved real fast!!!! I’m feeling blessed my precious Bailey wasn’t with me as he’s such a curious guy.
700 new homes are going up behind us and anytime dynamite is used – the snakes that live deep in the earth have a tendency to relocate and we’ve identified several that have made their way towards our property. I’m not a happy camper about that.
700 homes, oh yuck! You have my complete empathy. And of course this displaces the rattlesnakes. The rattlesnake that is now in our fences is basically my fault. I feed the birds seeds and nuts which attracts the squirrels and bunnies. For this big rattler this is a paradise too good to give up. The only downside for the snake is us people. She moved away from us, but VERY slowly! She is huge and fat and hopefully not pregnant!
What a bunch of cuties! 🙂
They are! So pleased you like them & cheers~
Have a happy and sunny week-end…
Visa versa 2UX2!
oh my goodness how beautiful, you are very clever with the camera!
Ahhh, you are very kind to say so! <3
Wow!!! Fabulous photographs. I adore rabbits, these photos are exceptional. You are really fortunate to have such close contact with these bunnies.
Mrs. Rattlesnake showed up inside our fences last night. She is a huge twelve year old. I’d say the bunnies are in trouble! ):
Qué ojazos y qué mirada tan tierna la de los conejitos 🙂 Me encantan las fotos. Un abrazo y buen finde Cindy <3
Tu son una gran amiga! Gracias y Feliz fin de semana y abrazos y besos!
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Loved the photos you took of the cottontails. I sent you a heart because my prior comment didn’t get through. Now I can tell you that they are the cutest shots. 🙂
Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness and persistance. WP certainly glitches which is frustrating, but I am glad you told me about it, or I would never have known!
Saw the title of this post, and I was thinking a plant but my mind was singing “Here Comes Peter Cottontail…” and low & behold the post opens with such a priceless picture of Peter 🙂 Wonderful series Cindy.
Ah, your subconscious mind knew you were going to see wabbits! Now we have a 12 year old rattler who is VERY big and very interested in the wabbits!
They’re adorable. Gosh, those ears! 😀
Amazing ears and eyes so they can run away from your kitty-kats!
Haha! Or vice versa! 😆
I think you communicate pretty well 🙂 Great shots, Cindy.
Well, it helps to have good friends, like you. <3
Adorable!
And good at multiplication! 😉
Oh yeah