Last winter, we had very few birds at our feeders. Adrian has had to refill the feeders every other day this week! We are hoping the birds enjoy their free food all winter.
Category: Nature
Winter Bubbles
It is that time of year again! I get to play with frozen bubbles!
It Seems Strange
It seems strange to discover spring flowers coming up in late November while we listen to Christmas music.
Trees
I am challenging myself to get the pictures that I see.
Fall Fun
It was a beautiful day to go outside and play with my camera. It was a challenge trying a technique that Mark asked about the other day. It is more difficult than I imagined to get a good picture while twisting the camera lens!
Fall
Windy Days
Falling Leaves
Colors Changing
I Love Fall
Bragging on Audrey
This evening Audrey taught a class on Monarchs to fifteen adults, most who are studying to be Indiana Master Naturalists. She did a wonderful job getting her slide presentation ready and sharing what she has learned about butterflies. Since her class last year, she has grown and matured a lot, and she presented a well polished seminar.
After class, one of the gentlemen expressed surprise that she was only thirteen years old. He thought she was at least eighteen or nineteen as composed and mature as she presented herself. Allan, who never heard her presentation, was able to make it to this one and thought she did “pretty good.”
Acorns
The variety in all the acorns caught my eye.  I am so thankful that God designed such difference in the world!
Nature Photography Class
Over that last few months, I took a class called Photographing Nature. My biggest goal in taking photography classes was to learn how to shoot what I wanted completely in manual mode and not have to adjust the pictures once I downloaded them.  At the beginning of the summer, most of my pictures were horrible!  All of the photographs for this class were taken manually and I rarely had to change anything. Most importantly, I understood why, what I chose to do, worked!
Migrating
We were outside when we noticed seven or eight Monarchs on our butterfly bush.  There were two or three other ones flitting about also.  It is the first time we have ever noticed so many Monarchs in our back yard at the same time.  We think they are migrating.
Audrey went outside and caught a few to test for OE. Â One of them was sick, so she kept him, but released the healthy one. Â She also roamed the neighbors’ yard to see if she could find anymore.
We are hoping that more Monarchs use our yard for a B&B as they travel south. Â We have been working hard to plant more Monarch friendly plants and, according to Audrey, you can never have too many butterflies.
