Posted in Uncategorized on December 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I will miss the ice now that it is gone. There’s something so delicately beautiful about ice and frost.
I love the way crystals form and the colors are more vivid.
Frost on the windshield looks like leafy ferns and glittering silver.
The frost was still forming as I sat in my truck snapping photos. Little “pings” of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged geese on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was not going to do another goose post. Well, OK, I took my camera to work because I keep hoping the Dusky Canada geese will show up again and I can snap a photo of them in comparison to the regular Canada geese. Only if they showed up would I blog about geese again.
But [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The geese are back.
The people in the cars are not happy about the geese being back. The woman in the black car waited until most of the geese were across the street, then forced her way through, separating the final four from the rest of the flock.
These stopped traffic, too. my walking partner & I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I had half a day off to go shopping today (this is an annual “gift” from my employer: all employes get one half day in December to shop). Shopping wasn’t all that wonderful, but the view of Mt Hood on my way home was.
So I stopped and snapped a photo from the West Linn side [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We are under an Arctic high pressure. What this means is the days are very cold, but the sun is shining. There’s a breeze most of the time, which accelerates the wind chill. Nighttime temps are in the teens and daytime temps hover at freezing.
I’ve been in much colder weather, but that isn’t really the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Everyone knows I have two grandsons who are currently living in our house. Zephan and Javan provide me with a lot of candid photos.
But I have another grandson who is every bit as adorable, smart, and kissable as those two. I just do not have the access to him that I have with the older [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We missed some apples on the apple trees. They’re frozen now.
I was rather surprised that we missed so many apples on this one branch. They must have really blended in with the green leaves of the apple tree (which are now all brown and on the ground).
While I was snapping these photos of the forgotten [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A simple walk.
A pair of geese on a pond. The sky reflected on the water.
Riffles on the surface of the water, softly distort the reflection.
Two Canada geese on a pond in the afternoon, swimming lazily, disturbing the reflection.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Oregon Civil War game on December 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Grass is fascinating from an artist’s point of view. Try replicating this with paint or colored pencil or crayon. There are so many different colors and shades in there! I once had an “artist” friend who argued that “even the color purple is in grass.”
She may have been right, from an artistic point. Purple would [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Where there are teeth, there are little hands. Yummmm… Love the taste of fingers!
And socks. Socks are especially tasty.
Oh dear… there’s that Cabbage Patch™ face again. That face and that hair just kill me.
This is the reason I think I can survive the next five months of the kids living with us. Yeppers.
