Aaahhhhh... Soft. Brings to mind something my hero used to call himself...just a lovable little fuzzball. Well, it just so happens that I am owned by a lovable little Fuzzball. Her name is Kikyo, and her fur is the softest. When she is in the same room, I just can't help but pick her up …
So..... In a month characterized by a nationwide Snow Storm, that left Streets Slippery with Snow and ice, where do we begin? How about with a triple-S photo: Song Sparrow in the Snow, taken just last week. And how about his Snow-buddy, our Squirrel? From a prior year, a Snowy Street, right in front of …
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Still more of our avian friends, visiting our yard for the excellent seeds and suet. This is our Song-sparrow. See how puffed-up he is, against the cold. He likes to hog the seed feeder-sometimes he will just sit there for long minutes. This is the female of our pair of Varied Thrushes. Her chest-stripe is …
We have a few squirrels who frequent our yard, using the high fence as their highway to get around all the yards. One of them showed up this afternoon, and gave us all sorts of fun antics to laugh at. Here he is on the fence, obviously trying to decide what kind of mischief to …
Yippee! Snow!! Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have been hearing for a couple of weeks that snow was in the forecast. They kept pushing the date back, however, which is pretty normal around here. Last night, around midnight, it did start to snow, and we awoke this morning to see the white stuff falling …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #135: A glimpse into my (snowy) world!
Since I started keeping my big camera on the kitchen table, I have been able to get some great pictures of my everyday bird visitors to our suet feeders. I know, I already have dozens of pictures of these birds, but they never cease to enthrall me, with their antics around and on the feeders. …
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It helps to have a great camera at the ready, when watching out the back sliding glass door. Our yard was a very busy place today, with many little creatures visiting. We actually had two squirrels at opposite sides of the yard. He sat nice and still so I could take his picture. At the …
These pictures are a perfect demonstration of how wonderful it is to have a camera with you wherever you go, just to capture spur-of-the moment images. Yesterday, I took my husband to the ambulatory surgery center, to have a minor procedure, and I had three hours to kill while I waited for him to be …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Challenge #134: From forgettable to favorite.
I guess I'd have to say I've always been a lazy photographer. When I was married to my first husband, who was an excellent photographer, besides being an engineer; I had an SLR film camera (this was back in the olden days before digital photography), but I had trouble mastering all its ins and outs, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #133: My photography journey
In the year 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. Aside from conquering Europe as a way of providing "lebensraum", or "living room" for the Aryan Race, the goal of the Nazi Party was what they described as the "Final Solution". That was the total elimination of the Jews. The …
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