Frost and Cardinals

This morning was yet another frosty morning.  Probably because the ground was SO wet and so everything just froze overnight.


I nearly had to treat a little Cardinal this afternoon.  It flew into our window and was stunned for a few seconds.  It yelled in pain so I went out to check and see if it had broken it's wing(yes, I know how to do this.... thanks to an AMAZING book).  I could've gotten it too but just then our dogs came bounding upon the site and it flew off.  Luckily it's wing was not damaged but I noticed it wasn't putting much weight on one foot.  Oh well.  If it can fly, it should survive.  :)  

Here are some more frosty pictures I took from this morning:

 A neat sunrise picture.  :)  

Scottish Gal

Walking around

It has been raining so much here lately!!  There are puddles everywhere.  And what's worse is that it's supposed to rain pretty much all week.  :(  I do not do well with dreary days.  

Pretty little flowers.  Doodlebug liked their tiny size.  She encouraged me to take a picture of it.  :)

Nice, tall tree.  Pretty blue sky too.... the kind of sky that you would see after a huge storm.  :)

Seem familiar?  :D This is the last picture I'll take of these berries.  I've been trying to look up what they are but I can't seem to find it anywhere!  It is a tree though not a bush.  

Isn't this neat?  I liked the look of the vine (probably thorns.... : / ) that has wrapped itself around the little tree.  :)

The first dandelion of the season.  Maybe later this week or sometime this spring I will do a post on dandelions and how tasty they are in the spring.  I've been studying a book(more on that later) that is all about edible and medicinal plants and the dandelion was very interesting.  :)  

Can you see the sun glinting off the water?  This is just one of the many puddles around here.  

:)  One of our dogs reflecting in a muddy puddle.  

Every trail has some puddles...

Scottish Gal

Spring Challenge!

*Thought I'd announce this way ahead of time so that everyone knows about and can start taking pictures now to get ready!*

To celebrate the 1st whole year that this blog has been up and running I decided it would be fun to do another one of these challenges.   The very first post I ever did was on March 19... the very last day of winter.  That picture became the official 2011 photo on here.   You can view the (very brief) post here. 

Here are the details for the challenge:

When: 

March 25 - March 31, 2012 

This is the first official week of Spring.

The Challenge:

The idea is to take at least one picture every day that "says" spring.  You can do more than one picture a day if you like(I like to post two daily) but only one is requiered.   The post "can" be wordless... but it would be nice if you identified what you took a picture of.  :)  Also..... it's ok to take pictures ahead of time... the only requierment here is that they are at least taken this year!  :) 

How to enter:

Anyone can enter!!  Once we get closer to the date of the actual challenge I'll post something where people can comment saying that they would like to join and where they will be putting their 

pictures(ex: blog, website, flickr)!  Then each day when I do my spring post comment at the bottom of that post with a link to your picture.  At the end of the challenge I'll post a list of all the bloggers( or photographer's ; ) that participated.   

Odds and ends...

Tell all your friends!!!  You can also grab a "Spring Challenge" picture at the bottom of this post and put it on your blog.  There are three to choose from.  But I will warn you.... it is not a "official" blog button so it doesn't quite work like one.  To use it, just drag the picture to your desktop - on your own blog find the "add a picture" gadget on your sidebar and upload the picture and insert my blog's link in the linky box(located above the picture).  Then it LOOKS like a real blog button!  :) 

If you have any questions about this challenge then please ask!!!  I may have forgot a detail or two....

Also if you are a regular photographer than comment somewhere on my blog and I'll put a happy little linky to your blog in my "Other great photgraphers" section.  

Take your pick!! :

A Dusting!!

FINALLY!!!!!  We got a "dusting" of snow last night!  A cold front has been trying to come through the last few days, and it finally got here.  :)  I took these pictures early this morning so now any snow that was there  ... is probably melted.  :(

I think this one came out the best.  :) 

Frozen dew drops on Buckwheat.  

A little animal borrow.

I decided to put these pictures on here because they were so pretty.  We lit these candles for some bad storms that came through a few days ago.

Have a nice weekend everyone!!

Scottish Gal

Fun with Dew drops

What a gloomy day it is here.  All misty and foggy.  On the fly I made up this poem(if you can call it that): 

The fog from this morning never rose, 

The sun has not shown it's face;

The birds refuse to sing their tunes,

And the trees give no support.  

Not very good, but it's a start I suppose. 

I don't really like the last line,

but I couldn't think of anything else at the time. 

:D  NOW I'm able to rhyme!  

It does give a good picture of what it's like here right now.  

Scottish Gal

2011 Photo

Spring won!!  :)  I'm glad.  I think that was my favorite one.  But it was close: 4 for spring and 3 for winter.  Actually the Spring picture was the very first picture I ever put up here.  I called it "The Awakening of Spring".  "The Sunrise of Spring" might be nice too though.  I can't decide.  :D

"The Awakening of Spring" ;2011 photo of the year

Random Items

Today is the last day to vote!  So far we have 2 votes for Winter and 3 votes for Spring.

Here is a glimpse of our new shed/barn.  :)  I love the colors.  It's red with a gray roof, and is made of wood and tin.   (And incase you haven't found out already from this blog, I'm just letting you know..... I love sun angles.  :)  )

A winter version of Queen Anne's Lace.

 Berries.  I told you I would be taking more pictures of them.  :)  The color of the thorn leaves in the background are nice too.

A Cardinal

FINALLY!!!!  I got a picture of a bird!!  :)  It was striking a wonderful pose for me at the breakfast table. :)

sigh.  If only there was snow in the backround....

Day 2

I couldn't think of a very good title.... so I just chose day 2.... which it really is.  It's day 2 of 2012, day 2 of the 366 challenge, day 2 of January, etc.  Today is also my Aunt's birthday!! :)  She's a really good photographer too.  :)
Here's my picture for the day:

And also, I will not be announcing the winning photo later today as I had originally planned.  As some of my FF (faithful followers) have not yet seen the post, I wanted to give them a chance to pick their favorite as well.  :)  So I will instead announce it on January 6.

Goal - 366 photos

My dear friend thought of this idea.  So I agreed.  The idea is to post a picture a day and get to 366 photo's/ 366 posts.  I think I can get in the pictures but I'm not so sure about the posts....
Here's my picture for the very first day:

This was pretty much what it looked like today although this picture was not taken today.  :( Sorry.  By the time I found out about the challenge it was pitch black outside.  I tried taking a picture of the moon but it didn't work out.  :(  I'll have to work on that.... I've always wanted to take pictures of the moon.