Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #228: \\\ Diagonals ///

Sorry, I just couldn't resist the urge to put a couple of keyboard diagonals in the post title!  Even the "number or hashtag" sign is made up of diagonals.  Nature presents us with diagonals all the time. This shrub-steppe hillside in Eastern Oregon presents an obvious diagonal against the sky.  For that matter, the clouds …

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Snow came. So did the chickadees.

This morning over breakfast, I looked out the glass door to the backyard, and spotted a couple of our chickadees taking advantage of the suet feeder.  The one on the left is a Chestnut-backed Chickadee; the one on the right is a Black-capped Chickadee. I also managed to capture the one on the left fluttering …

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