A Little Bit of Everything..

So many things are going on right now I really haven't been blogging that much!  :) I'll catch you up on a few things:

The Garden:

We have been planing for a while and this year we are going to start a big garden.  Sometime in the future we will be getting a large dump-truck load of wood-chips for our garden. I'll have pictures through out the entire process, I'm sure!!!!  We are also getting chickens!!!  I'm so excited!!!  I've wanted chickens for SOOO long!!   We will receive them in April.  

Photography/blog:

I will be challenging myself to take more bird pictures.  I've never really focused on this.  It should be interesting....  :)  If ANY of them come out then I will put them on this blog.  But I might be a total failure at "birding".  :D  I'll just have to see.  

Also, I might be changing the blog around a bit so it looks more like "spring" and so it's all pretty for my spring challenge.  Therefore, the poll on my sidebar.  Please vote.  :)

Random thoughts:

It is such a beautiful day outside!!  Truly.... a perfect temperature has been reached, along with a perfect combination of sun and clouds, breeze and calmness.  It is so beautiful that I think I shall go outside with my camera and see if there is anything inspiring to take a picture of.  :) 

What are your random thoughts?

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

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.