This is my 3rd 365 Picture-A-Day Project. Please give the gallery a little time to load.
Frank, our Silver Laced Wyandotte Hen with her new feathers after a very heavy molt.
Pickerington Ponds Metro Park on a cold January day. The Ice is working its way across the pond.
Frank, our Silver Laced Wyandotte Hen with her new feathers after a very heavy molt.
Pickerington Ponds Metro Park on a cold January day. The Ice is working its way across the pond.
Ocellaris clownfish snuggles up to his anemone.
A flock of Robins decended on my holly bush for lunch. They made short work of the holly berries and then moved on.
(from my hike at Blcklick today with Cheryl Todd)
For today I did something different. I liked the texture and color of the beech trees in the background so I decided not to crop in tightly. I felt it needed something to fill the open area so I went looking for quotes. Here are a few others I ran across (some related, some not) before deciding on the Rachel Carson quote:
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo
The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
Demetri Martin (Ok, not very nice, but you've got to love Demetri)
I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.
Brian Jacques (writer of the Redwall series)
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. (1987)
Carl Sagan
Tucker is about 6 months old now,and just under 50 lbs. Not the little puppy anymore.
The doves hang out below my feeder waiting to see what the squirrels will knock down.
It was a rainy day in central Ohio today.
Logan Ohio is celebrating their 200th anniversary. To kick it off today they had Ice carving downtown. This was at the local florist.
Cody waits impatiently for his treat.
It was a cold windy day today and I really didn't want to go out. From the warm aquarium inside. I like the way they scrape the sides of the aquarium and they have an interesting texture close up.
I refilled my feeder this afternoon and the birds were all over it. It is much easier than digging through the snow.
It looks like winter will not bypass us this year. It is supposed to be single digits tonight so hopefully the snow will shield our plants from the worst of it...they don't know what season it is. It's supposed to be back in the 40's by Thursday.
On the plus side, my snow cleats came today, so I am ready for those winter hikes.
A feather from one of our chickens made using my high tech lighting (a flashlight).
After the frigid temperatures we had yesterday the warm air felt almost tropical today. Snow on the wetlands at Blacklick woods was melting rapidly. Soon this newly fallen oak leaf can join the others in their watery world.
I went on an off trail hike today to visit Clearcreek's Ice cave. It was a very strenuous hike, especially considering it was my first Metro-five-O hike.
Macro of water droplets on a Gerbera Daisy.
This Gray Squirrel is fattening up at my bird feeders to stay warm.
Even the little Goth girl needs to stop and smell the flowers every once in a while.
I usually try not to post pictures of birds on feeders, but I have been trying to get a good picture of this bird for a while. They don't sit still long and it seems like they rarely come back to the same place regulary.
This invasive bird species looks amazingly different depending on how the light hits them. In bright sun they can be very beautiful, while in the shade they appear brown or black. These two birds, only a few inches apart, had very different light on them.
Blue skies were elusive this afternoon in the Hocking HIlls, but the recent cold weather made for some nice ice formations.
For our up-coming show we will also be decorating the storefront window, so I am playing around with some ideas for the floor space.
My daughter suggested my topic for today.
I don't usually do food pictures, but my other experiments today didn't work out well. Here is my breakfast. I used left over homemade bread and two of our chickens eggs. It was yummy.
I got this plant too late in the season to plant it outside, so I brought it in. Recently it started blooming again. This is a stack of 18 images with an extension tube, lit with my handy flashlight.
Out at Shallenberger Nature Preserve we ran into this giant tree. It had about a 4 foot diameter, and a lot of craggy old character.
