nature tales and camera trails

                           Two young fawns crossed the highway in front of our oncoming truck. they certainly gave me a front seat photo...

Yesterday morning the clouds appeared to be hundreds of little wooly sheep all huddled together in the sky.  A bit of soild blue could be ...

                                It seemed like a bit of a wait this year waiting for the much anticipated  colourchange of leaves to...

Rain for the past two days  (all weekend) had soaked the ground and the earth tinged water in this falls is a beautiful mellow yellow. ...

What a day for trying out a new camera!!!!!  :-( Rain, rain, go away! Come again another day, so I can go outside with my camera and pla...

Waxing Moon yearning to be full, just a couple more days and your deams will be fulfilled. My thanks to the hosts of Skywatch Friday htt...

A roadside market stop yesterday provided colorful objects for my camera lens. Above Celebration Squash and below a bin full of decorati...

A week ago we experienced an afternoon of thunder and lightening showers during the afternoon.  When the storm was over the sky appeared t...

A busyness has returned to Bird Alley with the approaching change of season.. this morning Pine Siskins and dull-coloured Goldfinch have r...

The end of a windy, rainy day left the grown unser tha wild apple tree strewn with apples having been blown from the tree.  Got picture...

 This fuzzy yellow caterpillar with black spikey hairs is a Banded Tussock caterpillar found on an arm of a lawn chair on my back deck. ...

 i do not know the species name for these handsome black and white roosters wearing their beautiful red conbs.  I saw them on this ...

This yellow Beetle was a new find for me last week. I found it in a milkweed patch.  If you want to see a variety of butterflies and insec...

A waxing crescent moon seen in the night sky! My thanks to the hosts of Skywatch Friday http://skyley.blogspot.com/ for continuing ...

 Three Painted Turtles sitting on a wooden board.  The painted 'red' of the bottom of the turtle's shell highlight's  it b...

This is the first warbler picture I have taken all summer.  I have seen very few warblers.  The white eye ring of this yellow bird suggest...

I believe the full moon was scheduled for last night. I never thought to look but this picture of an almost full moon was taken on Monday ...

An amazing survival story! I have been raising Monarch butterfly caterpillars  recently and I  now have 3 which have changed into beauti...

I have featured this sapsucker before, but in this photo the red on its head and nape is so very red and intense that I thought it deservi...

When driving home past an old barn, at Central Blissville along highway #!01, last Thursday( July 19th, 2012), my husband said, "Th...