Some of these have gotten a little too complicated for me. The one with color and it has to end in A? Nope, sorry. I’ll be very interested in what everyone else comes up with, though. I think it’s that I’m not feeling well and feeling definitely cranky.
I’m really not sure how much material I have, but I’ll give it a try! Let me start with flowers because, for me, most color starts with flowers — or birds!
Then I take a look at oceans and skies. You just never know about that.
Yellow and blue on Rt. 201 to Skowhegan – a bit impressionist!
And what about those Arizona mountains? Gotta be something there, right?
Blue and yellow daisiesYellow stone Arizona desert – Photo: Garry ArmstrongPhoto: Garry Armstrong – Yellow boat and blue water!Bluewater and yellow leaves at the Mumford DamYou can’t stop a determined blue and yellow ChickadeeTufted Titmouse – Blue and yellow bird!Blue jeans and a yellow gymnasium floorEarly morning in Vermont – a blue and yellow time of day!
Pairs of swans and geese. Pairs of House Finch. People in couples, dogs in duos.
And those earrings usually in pairs until one of them falls off. In the winter, it’s hats, you know. They catch on the hat and vanish.
A pair of green earrings …Mated for lifeTwo warblersA married couple – do I know these people?Pair of finches – Sorry, they don’t match!Matching geeseTwo Chickadees on a feeder
Monochromes (monotones) are a favorite of mine and really, I have a lot of them. Except I can’t remember where they are, so I found a few and rest are hiding in all my folders.
There are so many folders. Years of folders and then there are the other folders. If I don’t remember the month in which I took a picture, I have no way to find it. I really do need a better organization system!
Our fireplace in the living room is entirely brickGreen Japanese Maple treeTomatoes in summerA beige woods
Not exactly an “open-air” traveling day. Very bright outside, but also, very cold and colder is coming. It seems winter will some. It’s been creeping up on us, little by little.
The pictures are mostly Garry’s, but a few of mine made the cut!
The lonely cyclist – Photo: Garry ArmstrongPhoto: Garry ArmstrongPhoto: Garry ArmstrongPhoto: Garry ArmstrongA car and bike showKaiti on her own bike – a motorcycle — with four wheels!Horse (fake) and carriage (real) in Gettysburg
Old fashioned taxiSlow moving coach on a hot day in Tombstone
The day we went out to see the farms down around the corner (so to speak being as there really aren’t many corners back there in farm country), we saw cows and chickens and horses.
But for me, the real piece of heaven were goats.
I love goats.
Two goats up on a hill
Goat on the CommonsMore head-butting – Photo Marilyn ArmstrongMore goats!Devilish goat (but he only wanted something to eat …)
Just a note: We’re going to a party down on the cape and will be gone the rest of the day! But I’ll try to catch up when we get home, whenever that may be. Have a great day!
I don’t take a lot of snapshots of people. I take a lot of animal snapshots and this year, I took a lot of shots of our town being happy as the Christmas parade was about to start. That was different for me. I think, on the average, I like animals better than people.
Ben, the friend – Photo: Marilyn Armstrong
About birds and feeders. I put up the bird feeder because every winter, I’ve watched the cold little birds shivering in the bushes, nothing to eat, fluffing their little feathers to fend off the cold which my coat, sweatshirt, gloves, and muffler can’t fully prevent.
Garry and colleagues – Photo: Marilyn ArmstrongPhoto: Garry Armstrong
It makes me feel guilty and sad. We have so damaged their native habitat, this year I said “I have to help them. I can’t just watch them shiver and die from cold and starvation.” Being told to let “nature take her course” is a ridiculous statement after humans have done everything possible to make nature take OUR course, without regard for any other living creatures. whose lives we were dislocating or destroying.
Moving the cows – Photo: Marilyn ArmstrongPhoto: Garry Armstrong
Now, I feed the birds and the squirrels and I am finding an enormous satisfaction in it. I watch them. I don’t always take pictures. Sometimes, I just watch them. I listen for them, too. Today I heard a loud “twee, twee, twee.” That means there is a Cardinal nearby. I didn’t see him, but I’m betting the other birds knew exactly where he was.
Photo: Marilyn ArmstrongWoman at work – Photo: Marilyn Armstrong
The little birds really are surprisingly protective of the feeders … something I didn’t anticipate.
Photo: Marilyn Armstrong
I suppose they feel threatened by the larger birds, though they shouldn’t. They eat different parts of the foods, too. They need to share it so everyone is healthy. It will serve them well.
Oddly enough, that’s pretty much what I’ve been doing! Between the birds at the feeder and the genuine macros on the Christmas Cactus, it’s been all close-ups and macros for several weeks … with a few more weeks to come.
Tonight, though, we’re going to make an excursion to see if we can get the light on the Common. It’s cold, but it’s very clear and as far as I know, we aren’t expecting any rain or sleet or snow … or for that matter, toads and frogs, descending from on high.
A good time for cameras for as long as we can stay outside. If there isn’t much wind, we have a little longer.
I can’t tolerate cold as I used to. I was always warm, but these days, I’m always cold … even when it isn’t all that cold. So I guess we’ll see. Maybe I’ll wrangle with the extremely warm by complicated heavy winter coat I own.
I never wear it because I can’t always figure out what all those buttons, zippers, elastic, cords do. By the time I manage to get myself into it, I’m exhausted and need a nap. We shall see!
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