Nature Photo Challenge #3: Pink Flowers, sunset and dawn — all very pink. Our weather is pretty much the same. Chilly, damp, cold, unappealing. Spring will come none too soon!
Nature
I’VE LOOKED AT CLOUDS FROM BOTH SIDES NOW
One sunset evening as the sun was setting over the Housatonic River in Connecticut, the sky went wild. If you stood on the dock and rotated, there would be a different color and formation of clouds in each degree of… Read More ›
FUN IN RED
CFFC: Apple Red Colors Great time of year for red! It’s definitely the top of the line color of the season. I’m glad I took a lot of pictures of my Christmas cactus. As expected, the blooming is over long before… Read More ›
FIRST SNOW FLASHBACK, 11/23/2012
This is a flashback Friday on Wednesday – a typical “Thanksgiving” snow. A little bit of white stuff. Gone in a few hours. A warning of more to come. Early snow reminds us to find the shovels and hope we… Read More ›
DISTRACTION?
Blogging Insights NF # 61 – Distraction So. Here’s the quote: I have never been distracted by the internet. I’ve been distracted by life. Illness. Moving. Remodeling. Major life changes that fall out of the sky. Reading a book too… Read More ›
GOLDEN LEAVES
We don’t get a lot of color on this property. It’s probably because it’s so dark and the oaks shade everything. Yet there are just a few trees that give us some great color. Most of the places on our… Read More ›
IT WILL BE A COLD NIGHT
The temperature is supposed to drop by at least 40 degrees tonight. I still haven’t turned on my heat. I refuse. I never turn on the heat until mid November. I am not alone. Many people are absolutely phobic about… Read More ›
BEAUTIFUL NATURE
CFFC: Reminds you of natures beauty Talk about hard choices. I chose many, then whittled the selection down to six, at which point I stopped whittling. Hope you like them.
GLOWING GRACKLES
As I work through my folders, I keep finding bunches of pictures I’ve never processed or even sorted. I saved these grackle photographs because they needed a bit more work than usual and then I forgot them. But here they… Read More ›
NATURE AT WORK
A Photo a Week Challenge: Nature at Work Water plants in the Blackstone River, a Bluebird, a Goldfinch, white Rhododendrons, and a waterfall. And finally, the super lunar eclipse last May.
SUMMER IN THE VALLEY, PHOTOS BY GARRY ARMSTRONG
Garry was looking at his pictures and remarked that his pictures and mine are nearly identical. Well, at least one could be the same picture. I think we were both standing in the same place when we took it. This… Read More ›
GREAT BLUE HERONS
Let’s have our beautiful Great Blue Herons take center stage. Many of these amazing birds make their home in this valley. They live in large groups who nest in trees near the rivers where they fish. Great Blue Herons will… Read More ›
EARTH DAY AND SHARING
SHARE YOUR WORLD & BE KIND TO EARTH! 4-26-2022 With all of the mess going on across the world, I still think trying to get our planet healthy — for us — should be our number one priority. It isn’t… Read More ›
MY BRIEF CAREER AS DEPUTY ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER
I live in a small town. Just under 15,000 people call Uxbridge home. The village, or as we say around here, “downtown,” has a classic brick town hall, circa 1879, an elegant old library (1885), and a few other historic… Read More ›
EVIL SQUIRREL WITH WALT KELLY – AFTER EARTH DAY 2022
It was Earth Day yesterday. I remember the very first Earth Day, how proud we were that we had “done something.” Well, we didn’t really do much. Walt Kelly said: The enemy hasn’t changed. It’s still us and until we… Read More ›
THE HUNGRY CREATURES
We had been trying to figure out which birds were eating all the food we were putting out, but this morning I finally realized the food is being consumed by a lot of birds of every kind you will find… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 