I have one more frost image I wanted to share where it really looked a lot like ferns. I captured this on one of our bitterly cold days on my back storm door while it was still dark out. The frost was illuminated by the porch light. I really like the abstract look of these.
As I mentioned on Tuesday, I have been able to capture a lot of birds this winter. This is a Nuthatch that I was able to capture out my window on the Mulberry tree. I love watching them move around the tree, usually upside down. They are adorable and hard to capture as they don't stay still very long.
It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's image is one that I hope survived our winter. This is Nipple Cactus. It's height is only 1 to 4 inches and it usually blooms in May and June. It likes dry, rocky prairies and limestone soils. We were quite wet this year so I shall see if it survived, I hope so, I love it's blooms.
I have had a lot of opportunities for bird images this winter. On the first weekend in March I was able to capture a Red Tail hawk fairly closely. It was gliding around on the winds we were having that day and I lucked out that it came towards me a couple of times. They are in our area all year but seem to be more prevalent in the winter.
Happy Monday and happy new week! My Amaryllis is FINALLY blooming. It took forever to bloom this year even though I potted the bulbs up earlier than last year. This is the one that has white highlights but they seemed to show up more on the back of flower than on the front. All my Amaryllis are old bulbs that I save and put outside in the summer and then work to get them to rebloom.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the blog! Today's image is one of the Porter locomotive arriving at the station to pick up it's load of passengers. I was waiting to board as well for my turn at firing the locomotive. I thought this image worked well in B & W which gave it a bit of a moody look.
