The ground’s littered with those prickly seed pods from the sweetgum trees, but the magnolia buds are swelling, and today we spotted our first crocus!
Nature
Quick, deer
Trying out the new wildlife camera, hoping for a bit better than this, almost 7am on Feb 7th. But three days later about midnight we got these two at the same spot:
One of them got even closer . . .
On his usual perch
Lately this particular squirrel (I guessed) has been spending time in this particular spot, visible with the sun behind him, catching my eye during my after-breakfast cup of tea. But is it the same squirrel? Another shot, a slightly different pose, three days later:
Icy Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg
From the little unnamed fishermen’s park on River Road in Stafford, looking at sunset across the icy Rappahannock River towards Old Town, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Icy Occoquan
Boat dock at Mamie Davis Park, Occoquan, Virginia, after lunch January 11th, 2018
Willowmere Park
Below is another shot of this tree taken 4/4/2018, this time from the opposite direction and looking uphill rather than down. No geese this time.
Jammer in from the cold
Tufted titmouse
At our kitchen window New Year’s Eve.
The long and winding road
I blew off ¼” of dry loose snow with the leaf blower (fearing an expected spell of cold weather might turn it to ice). We did get a week of cold weather, but the white tire tracks evaporated in about a day.
The duck tape man
At Erin and Sheara’s