backyard visitors

    The buck in the front charged us right after this shot.  Strangely enough there was a baby with them.  They are usually only seen with the does.  I wonder if that means the mother has been killed?  They were doing an impressive job of protecting it.

Monday Morning Photo Shoot with John

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Take a shot of something unusual on the street where you live. The challenge? It can't be a shot of something of yours. Which means you'll have to, you know, walk down the street a bit. The definition of "unusual" I leave to you. My only suggestion is that it should be in public view, unless you can convince a neighbor to let you in their house and take photographs of the freakish stuff they have there. And if you can, well. Good on you.

       Ok this is new on our street and I haven't seen another like it.  I don't know the people, did they lose someone?  Anyway it is pretty neat.....and sad!

Mystery flower unveils itself

Can't help it, just love flower pictures.

   I have these in my bike journal but wanted to show them here also.  Can't help it, just think I do a pretty good job with flowers.   I love the colors.
 
       The peach color below was very pretty.

Some pictures

          My first dragonfly of the year.


    Now the last shot is not in focus.  I like it however.....don't you?

Perfection of Nature

        The perfect symmetry of nature.










         Each leave exactly perfect, each petal.

The old tree

          This old tree is in my old yard.  We moved next door when we moved so we have the whole block.  Over the years we kept thinking it would die.  It is home to birds, squirrels and many insects.  At one time there was an old chain growing out of one of the branches, but that one finally died.

    Our tree man tried for years to talk us into cutting it down since it was so hollow, but we wouldn't.  We would sit in the window and watch the new baby birds learn to fly.  The baby squirrels poke their heads out to see the world for the first time.  Every winter we were sure it had died but every spring it burst forth full of life, from the inside out.

    I just love this old tree and we have decide to let it die a natural death and live as long as it wants.  Its ugly and most people wouldn't want it in their yard even if it was a ways off......  but we do.