a balloon and tulips

Discovered on the way home from walk to the swim hole: mylar birthday balloon on the ground above the wet weather water fall. Perhaps it is Katrina's birthday; we can celebrate no body just as well. On the logging road is a deer foreleg a coyote  may have dropped after discovering the discards of a hunter. Dogs sniffed but left - I would have thought that Mojo would have carried it home. 
I planted my 18 Queen of the Night tulips in the front yard in a spot i am hoping the moles won't tunnel which would bring the dreaded tulip eating voles. I'm also thinking that this may be a last chance to dig in the ground before it freezes. Then again who is to know what this winter will bring.
The river khaki colored with white caps.