a view from my door

The birds seem to love the snow..seven inches and counting.......

Oh how contrary she can be!

I found these crocus sprouting in my yard today! 

A beautiful gift from mother nature.

One would conclude that spring has sprung, right?

Then I came into the house and the news said  they're calling for snow tomorrow, sigh....

I wish mother nature would make up her mind!!

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Photo Day- birds of a feather feed together

You know me if the sun's shining and the weather's nice, I'm going to be out there with my camera.

The cats were having a great time lazing around in the yard taking dust baths, I sometimes think they think they are birds.

The birds were in the feeders and pretty hungry today. I have to wonder whether that's a sign of the weather to come. Many of them are pretty skidish of me with the camera and wouldn't even go to the feeder with me on the steps or deck, but I did get a few shots.

So like every other person in our area, Bill went out to the grocery store today and picked up a few things in case the weather turns. They're saying 2-4 inches for our area, I'm ready, there will be soup ( comfort food is a must ) tomorrow whether the rain stays rain or turns into snow. Frankly sixty degree weather is wacky so I guess snow would actually be normal!

Talk about the luck of the Irish! This gorgeous little woodpecker decided to raid our feeder as I was out with my camera today. Isn't he/she just wonderful? Nor very large as woodpeckers go but bursting with character and color and pattern. I gather he decided to fill his belly before the impending storm as well. 

He's really to big for the feeder however so he hangs on and picks the feed out with his long beak. We must have a nest in one of our large trees because this one is a daily visitor. We have bigger ones too I can here them tap- tap- tapping on the trees during the day when the windows are open.

I guess we should be happy for the weather coming to our town soon, we can probably use the precipitation. Bill just came in and said the next door neighbor just set a grass fire, by accident. Not good! Thank goodness they were able to put it out without anyone being hurt or any property damage. Bill had the phone in his hand and was about to call 911 but thank the Lord it wasn't necessary.

That's all for now folks.

Enjoy the photo's!

photo day- say what Phil?

No disrespect to Punxsutawney Phil and I may be spitting hairs here but do we get six more weeks of winter if we we really haven't had any winter yet? I think we've used our wood stove for heat for about seven days the whole season, that does not a winter make!

I haven't gotten to spend a lot of time with my camera but the past few days it has been flirting with 70 degrees  and above  so I went out and took a few shots. Here's the moon today thru a budding tree; yes you heard me right! I have a tree that's budding on February 2nd!...amazing.

I was pretty pleased to get this one of the moon but much closer up, just look at those craters. I'm so darn happy that this camera can focus in that close. What a step up from my last camera! I still have a ton of trouble holding the camera steady, but then I was never gonna be a brain surgeon anyway! 

And if you had any darn question about how crazy warm the weather is here in Virginia here's the proof of all proofs. This daffodil is one of many blooming in my front garden today, and Mr bug crawling on its pretty yellow leaf. 

I don't know Phil things are looking rather Spring-ish here! Next time pictures of the snow storm, I probably just jinxed the whole Commonwealth with this post!