Chickadee

Here are the first of my bird pictures for this week. Today's post is black capped chickadees. I just love their song and the way they bob when they fly. The chickadee is our State Bird.

A Sign of Spring!!!

Jacob, my Mom, and I were out at Field's Pond Nature Center today. We went to try out new camera equipment and to get out and enjoy the warm sunshine. The birds were chirping and flying from tree to bird feeder and back to the trees again. There were several different kinds of birds out this afternoon, including, nuthatches, chickadees, woodpeckers and one I hadn't seen before. I'm going to look it up in my book and see if I can identify it. I plan to post my bird pics all next week. My favorite bird today was the Robin. Robins, to me, are a sign of spring, and I'm so anxious for spring these days! It's not the best photo ever, but she wouldn't come out of the tree. I guess she was nice and comfy there, and didn't want to move. Can't say that I blame her!

It's All Kim's Fault!

She's the one who had to go and mention she got this great wireless remote for her camera. Then I had to go check them out at Bangor Photo and see if I needed one. I couldn't decide if I should get the wireless, or the wired remote. They each serve a different purpose, depending on what you are trying to photograph. Of course, I could use both! I tried them out in the store, to see which one I might want to buy first, but couldn't decide. I took this photo with the wired remote. In the end, I decided to buy a roll of film for my medium format camera and think over the whole remote thing. Check out Kim's cool art blog here.

A Sign of Spring??

As some of you know, I'm getting a little anxious for Spring. The weather has been so odd lately - one day this week we had rain, snow, and freezing rain all in the same morning! Then the next day it could rain and the next thing you know, two feet of snow has melted away. Then, it could be back in the 20's again, like today! As I was driving back home from my mom's house today, I realized the river had lots of open water, and the trees weren't covered in snow and ice! I stopped to shoot a few pictures and compare them with these that I shot in the same spot in January. I think Spring may really be on it's way, slowly, but surely! Yay!!!

Fresh Ideas???

Today's post is rather comical. Cindi and I were at Wally World, doing a little shopping. I needed to get a few things for a small party I'm having at my house tomorrow night. Ralph wanted me to do a meat and cheese platter, so I went to the cheese cooler and found this "fresh idea". LOL Cindi thought it would make a great photo of the day, so I snapped this one with my cell phone. I decided to get my cheese at another deli!

This is a photo of a farm down the street from where I live. I've been looking at this tree out there on the edge of the pond for a few days and thought it would make a great photo. OK, so my photo isn't so great. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get my camera to see what my eye is seeing! I think I'm needing a wide angle lens for this, but I don't have one...YET!

Fall Photos

It was another really cold day today, so yet again, I holed up here in the toasty warm house and didn't go outside except to take Jacob to school and pick him up. These are two photos I captured this past fall. The fence photo is taken at a lookout point where you can see Mt. Katahdin. It was a little cloudy, so the mountain wasn't a good view. I saw this abandoned house along the way to the mountain, and stopped to take a pic.