1/2/15

Well, we are heading into the very blah part of winter here after the holiday decorations are taken down and it's just brown outside.  This is the part of winter I dislike the most, just dreary.  I have to come up with other ways to brighten the house.  At the office I have these Geraniums that I took this image of just a few weeks ago so at least there I have some color.

1/1/15

Happy New Year!  We are starting it off with cold but sun so a step in the right direction.  Hope 2015 is a great New Year for you all and thanks so much for visiting my Blog!  Hope to share photos you all will enjoy in this new year as well.  Thanks!

12/31/14

It's New Year's Eve and bitterly cold, 7 F this morning.  Yuck.  This is an image from last summer that brings me some warmth today.  I observed this Swan family at Tamarack Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota.  Tamarack is a great place to visit, lots of wildlife and nature and wildflowers to observe, it's just beautiful.  These Swans were on one of the large bodies of water there.

12/30/14

Well winter had to give us one last blast before the end of the year, only a high of 12 F today.  Yuck.  I am really wishing for summer today, not a fan of this kind of weather.  I took this image late this past summer/early autumn of a Viceroy butterfly on my Autumn Sedum.  You can tell it's a Viceroy and not a Monarch by the very defined line on the rear wing.

12/29/14

I took this image this past winter, in February, after a decent snow.  This female Cardinal had just visited the feeder and then came and sat on the railing with the seed in her mouth.  We have a chance of snow today but even if it happens I highly doubt it would be this much and that's actually fine with me.  :-)

12/28/14

Those of you who only visit my Blog may notice a trend on Sundays.  I post a lot of trains and such mainly because over on Google + I co-curate a theme called Steamy Sunday and we encourage others to post photos of steam.  They can be anything steamy, even the steam off a coffee cup, I just happen to enjoy trains as does the other curator who is from Australia.  Anyway, this is a bit different, it's a steam traction engine that some friends of ours own and operate at the Steam Threshers Reunion up in Rollag, Minnesota.  I was trying out a new B&W style, with a copper tone to it and thought I would share it today.  This is a 28 HP Minneapolis.

12/27/14

An arctic front is on the way so our warmer temps will be leaving.  Dreaming of Spring today with this image of Daffodils that I took in my yard.  If you enlarge the image you can catch sight of a spider waving Hi!