The rivers around here always surprise me. I grew up around fast running, ice cold and clear rivers and lakes. In this area the rivers are a muddy brown and very slow moving. Usually, I try to avoid taking photos of the river because it is so brown and dirty. People tend to comment on my photo colors being off as the water isn't blue. I saw this little bend in the river and it called to me, so here it is. What do you think?
Saturday, June 6, 2009
June 6 - River (152/365 or is it 158/365? lol)
The rivers around here always surprise me. I grew up around fast running, ice cold and clear rivers and lakes. In this area the rivers are a muddy brown and very slow moving. Usually, I try to avoid taking photos of the river because it is so brown and dirty. People tend to comment on my photo colors being off as the water isn't blue. I saw this little bend in the river and it called to me, so here it is. What do you think?
June 5 - Turtle
As I've shared before, we have a lot of ponds and standing water around here. We also have a lot of turtles and frogs.This little guy watched me intently as I walked around the bank to get a better photo. He really made me laugh. After I took the photo, he silently slipped into the water and vanished.
June 4 - Conk
I believe this fungus is called a conk. It's actually the sign of ill health for a tree. I've known many artists that collect conks, dry them and then paint on them.In the Rocky Mountains I have seen these conks get amazingly large.
June 3 - Cardinals
As I've mentioned many times on this blog, there is so much wildlife around here! It is mind boggling. The more I look for it, the more I find :)I'm not much for ornithology and this blog has really shown me how much I don't know! I think these are cardinals.
I find it so peaceful to be out with my camera. The only really bad thing is that being out with all of the trees and creatures also means I'm out where there are ticks. After this hike I found several climbing on me. Thankfully, none had bitten or anything. They were just wandering around and holding on to my clothes. Such disgusting little creatures. Gotta take the bad with the fabulous I guess. I've been around them all my life and they haven't kept me home yet.
June 2 - Pelican Rapids
I thought for sure I would find pelicans at Pelican Rapids. I was wrong. Normally this water is not over the feet of the statue, however, with all of the flooding, the water was still pretty high.The next morning I ran down to my favorite coffee shop (Ristreto's) and I could NOT believe it when a pelican flew right in front of me and landed in the pond near my house! Of course I didn't have my camera with me on my latte run! ugghhh
June 1 - Blue Heron
I'm not sure what this bird is. It was a ways away and held very, very still while I was trying to get this photo. My husband and I went to Maplewood State Park in Minnesota and that's where I found this guy. When he was tired of me, he was gone in a flash! So quick, I didn't even get a photo of it in flight!If you know what type of bird this is, please let me know. At first I called it a Blue Heron, but then I couldn't find any photos of Blue Herons that looked just like this guy.
Thank you CBGD for posting the comment and link :) Now I know.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
May 30 - Dragonfly!
I came across a field of dragonflies! There must've been thousands of them flitting all over the place. Every time I barely moved, they all lifted in flight! It was VERY difficult getting a photo! Thankfully, I have a fantastic zoom lens!I spent more than half an hour just sitting there watching those beautiful creatures flit here and there :)
There were several types there too! I didn't get any photos of the other blue ones with round bodies. They were just way too fast and way too busy!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
May 28 - We went to the park
We went to the park tonight and roasted beef franks. After we ate, the boys went out and tossed the baseball. We went to the park last weekend too. Skyler could not catch that ball! He was pretty scared of it and spent a whole lot of time chasing it down.
Today when his dad tossed it to him, he caught it more often than not! My oldest son and daughter joined us. What a gorgeous day! The sun was shining and there was a nice light wind blowing. We did see one skeeter while there. Not sure how many we didn't see.
Skyler ran and ran and ran. At one point he got my son, Mark, to chase him. Mark has been able to run lighting fast since he learned to walk. Skyler got to giggling so hard all he could do was fall to the ground in surrender! As you can see, there were lots of trees to hide behind and have fun with.
He comes back from his moms for the weekend of Fathers Day. He's already asked if we can go to the park and go fishing! LOL
May 27 - tiny ducklings! (I'm all caught up!!)
Awwww how cute are they??!!
Look at those tiny little babies! I mentioned before how many ducks and geese there are this year, and there usually are. However, this year there seems to be twice as many as usual!
Whew, I got a bit behind on my photo a day blog, but spent the time and got it all caught up.
I will try to get over and post on the other blogs over the weekend.
May 26 - Recipe Album
This is the project I made with my scrapbooking group last week. We make 6x6 recipe layouts and then exchange/swap them. I didn't know what to do with all of the layouts.
I made these fun little albums to hold the recipe layouts. To see more examples and the instructions, visit my scrapbooking blog.
May 24 - Bears
Oh look what I found outside my door!
Okay... they were out my door and a 40 minute drive south to the Chahinkapa Zoo in Whapeton, ND! I had to shoot through dirty plexiglass, but I think it turned out pretty well despite that!
These guys are eating very large, very frozen fish.
May 23 - No bees....
I went all over today to try and get a photo of a bee. I couldn't find even one! So, guess you'll have to look at more flowers.
I'm on a mission to find a bee though.
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