The Quiet One

Is it August yet ?

All week I've been coming home tired and no mood to post anything. The summer reading programs have started at the library I work at. Plus all the summer people are showing up too! The worst part about the summer people, the one I was hoping would stay away, returned. Ugh!

So it's 4th of July weekend. I'm not sure who's going have the biggest firework. Macy's or it will be at the Yankees and Red Sox game. Red Soxs already had a bench clearing brawl couple weeks ago. So why not have one this weekend?

A thunderstorm is coming, so I have to make this short for tonight.

Orange and Red

3 am Thunderstorm does a good job -

3am T-storms does a wonderful job of screwing up my sleep.  The thunder wasn't too bad, just a few rumbles that shook the house a bit. However the lightening was bright and wild. Even with the blinds halfway down, it still light up the room too many times. So I’m typing up this post with a few good size yawns toss in.

The  picture above is a bug who decide it had enough flying for the day last Friday. So the bug did a a little hitchhiking before I realize it was there. Hey, at least I snap its oicture before booting it off.

It's hot

Oh what a hot weekend!!

It's been been pretty in the 90s for most the weekend, which naturally lead to me to watching the radar Sunday afternoon. Most the storms either went north or south of me. Now the one around 7:30pm nailed this area with a pretty good show of lighting and thunder. Was hoping for one for tonight, hmm it looks like tomorrow will be show time.

The picture above was taken yesterday. It was one the storm that New Jersey. It did play around with the color to make the trees all black. Also a good way to hide a telephone pole too.

With all the thunderstorms around on Sunday. Stay off the computer and spent the afternoon revising poems.  These poems came from a notebook that was started a couple years ago. For some reason, I never revise them.  So it was interesting, since my voice in the poem has change since then. Couple were x off and won't be revise at all. They just didn't seem right now.

Bad boy pt2 and hello there little one

What? I'm being good, I was just hungry.

Best thing I ever did was to buy that Canon Powershot S3 with 12x zoom lens. A great camera for photographing nature. Well now it's call, Canon Powershot S5. So with the camera in hand I got this shot. Which I had to shoot through the living room window unless I wanted scare the little one. So the color and the sharpness is little off.

Bad Boy!!!!!!!!!!

Now don't you even think about it. You'll regret it.




Now look what you did, you got seed all over your arms. Plus you might break the bird feeder and I won't be happy about that one.



Oh well.

The bird feeder survived the bear encounter and the bear did finally leave. Got some excellent photos too. I'll post more tomorrow. There's another happy camper about the bear, the local chipmunk. He or she is stuffing its cheek with the spilled seed.

Another baby picture

I haven't seen the mother  lately, so I think she has move to another location. Well at least I got some good ones.

Great Weekend

It's a great weekend when you have baby turkeys to photograph. They are going down my front steps trying to catch up with Mommy. The mother brought then around a few times over the weekend.The funny part about them, they kinda look like baby ducks too.

Another good thing about the weekend, the last two days were above 70F and sunny!! it was another beautiful today with a T-storm passing through late in the afternoon. The other two went north of us when they came through earlier.

Having a chuckle with this flower. It's a purple flower who for the most part is blue on all the photos I took of it tonight. A few tweaks on the camera and in Photoshop got the purple to come out some more. I have the same trouble with my purple African violets. Must be the purple coloring in the flower that goofs the cameras up. Because it did it with my Kodak too.

Pollen colored woodpecker?

There's a bit a discussion on this bird. It looks like a downy woodpecker but a that woodpecker is mostly white on the belly. Well this one is yellowish with a touch of green toss in. So the question is, is the tree's pollen coloring this bird this color or is it, a natural color? I never seen this colored bird before. It has been raint for a couple day and the oak pollen is heavy this year

I do have a bird book and I don't see it except as a regular downy woodpecker ? Even then I hoping that I remember the right woodpecker. There was another below it that look simlier to this one. Might have to get Carol over here to figure this one out.

I'm also hoping this post is looking alright. Typepad has made changes to the compose area, I like the changes but I think my font settings got change. So any goofs are because the new system.

Please no pictures

This bird really doesn't want me taking any pictures of it. Finally got lucky tonight!