FOTD – August 1 – Window Box Flowers it was a nice day. Comfortable temperatures, light breeze. Sunny and partly cloudy also made it good flower shooting conditions, and so I went outside and took flowerbox pictures.
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FURRY WITH STRIPES
Since we started letting the Duke out on the deck occasionally — and the Duke has discovered if he charges the back screen door door he can pop it open — the chipmunks have been a little tentative. They aren’t… Read More ›
FLEDGLIING ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK
Most baby animals are cute. Well, at least the furry one are. Birds, on the other hand, have some of the most hilariously ugly babies I’ve ever seen. This is a very young Rose-Breasted Grosbeak. In one of these pictures,… Read More ›
ALMOST THE LAST TREESQUARES
Almost the end of Treesquares Since this month is just about over, I thought I’d just find the best remaining square trees. I really have many more, but it’s hard for me to find them. I keep trying to organize… Read More ›
MACRO-FLOWERS IN THE WINDOW BOXES
FOTD – July 28 – MACROS IN THE WINDOW My window-box flowers deserved better pictures, so I took some. If we get a cloudy day, the pictures will be even better.
OLD TREES, PINE TREES
BY OTSEGO LAKE All of these were taken near Cooperstown in upstate New York. Otsego Lake is a big lake carved out of these mountains by the final glacier during the Wisconsin Glaciation period, probably about 20,000 to 22,000 years… Read More ›
COOPERSTOWN
BALING THE HAY IN UPSTATE NEW YORK All of these were taken near Cooperstown in upstate New York. We had gone to the Baseball Hall of Fame as part of what used to be our annual anniversary vacation. It was… Read More ›
ADVICE TO AND FROM A TREE
Advice To And From A Tree “Stand strong,” said the tree. “Come what may. In all the seasons, through storm and wind, rain and blizzard, stand strong. Be there for the creatures that live in your branches, that nest in your… Read More ›
RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER
We’ve been seeing a lot of woodpeckers. Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Flickers, Hairy and Downy woodpeckers. You’d think there would be plenty of bugs for them in the trees, but they want seeds too. I don’t know if the seeds are dessert… Read More ›
HEDGE ROSES
FOTD – July 24 – HEDGE ROSES The roses bloomed bigtime this year despite the rain. But if we’d had just a little bit of sunshine in June or July, it would have been much better. These are the roses from… Read More ›
I’D IMAGINED THIS SO MANY TIMES, BUT I NEVER EXPECTED …
I’d imagined this moment so many times, but I never expected that a bird so small would steal the seed right out of my mouth! That’s right. Here I am, a full-size scarlet Cardinal and he’s a tiny Chipping Sparrow…. Read More ›
AND THEN, THEY ARE GONE
It’s a good day for looking back. When I wrote this in 2015, it was five years since Tinker and Griffin, our two PBGV (French rabbit hounds) had died. Since then, Bonnie who was a young dog then is gone,… Read More ›
