Another Winter Cardinal

It's been a while since I posted anything so I thought I'd share this photo I took of a cardinal during our big snow storm last week. We got a little over a foot of snow. This poor guy had a little bit of trouble. He had been perched on a stump of a weed underneath my bird feeder and when he hopped down to get some of the bird seed on the ground, he disappeared into the snow! He was able to fly out, though.

Holly in the snow

Thought I'd share these photos of my holly bush that I took 2 days apart. The first one was from Saturday when the temperature managed to get up to 50 degrees. (It was back in December the last time we saw a temperature in the 50's.) The second photo is from this morning as the snow was coming down. We got close to 6 inches of really wet snow. Boy, is that heavy to shovel! I'm looking forward to spring!

Winter Birds

Here are a few more photos of the birds at my feeder that I took the same day as the cardinal photo.

Winter Cardinal

I've been stuck inside because of the snow so I set my camera up by my back door to see if I could get any photos of the birds at my feeder. This photo was my best one. It didn't come out too bad considering I took it through 2 doors and the wind was blowing the feeder. I can't wait to get out with my 500 mm zoom lens when I have a chance to set up good photos.

Share your thoughts

I don't know how many people read my blog but I thought I'd give everyone an opportunity to chat if you feel like it. I know I'm getting tons of traffic fakers but I do know I have a few loyal followers.  Consider this an open forum to share your thoughts but stay nice. I will remove any comments that are inappropriate if we happen to get any nasty folks invading my quiet little blog.

And here's a pretty photo for anyone who may be tired of the nasty winter weather:

                                      Louis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, VA

Pretty Sunset

I just happened to walk by a window at the right time yesterday evening to see a beautiful sunset. I don't have the most photogenic scenery where I live but the sky is still beautiful. You can even see the sliver of the moon if you look closely.

Blog Comments

Hi Everyone. I just wanted to mention that if you post a comment to one of my posts that is more than 3 days old, your comment won't be posted right away. In order to limit spam, I have the blog set up that I have to moderate comments on the older posts. Even if I don't post for a while, I do try to check in to see if there are comments awaiting moderation. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I figured it will help with the spam. Blogger does a great job in filtering spam because so far I haven't had any. Let's hope it stays that way!

While I'm posting, I thought I'd share this photo with you.  My brother Mike made this when we were teenagers. We made some fancy ornaments and Mike decided to do his own design. My mom (I think) nicknamed it Sputnik. Since my brother died in 1987, it has been a very special ornament. I got it a couple years ago when my parents stopped putting up a tree. They both passed away this year so I got all the special ornaments.