Lately, I have been playing a lot in the sketch options on my photo editing program.
This picture is in our pasture but across the street and I like the way this one turned out.
Some pictures work out better than others when trying this out.
Hiding Squirrel
Everyone here knows I love wildlife and when I get a chance to capture some animals with my camera it’s all the better.
This squirrel was hiding he made himself flat as he could to become pressed against the tree trunk.
I love squirrels! When we were kids our Dad brought home a baby squirrel he found and we had him for a pet for along time. We will call this one Fuzzy # 2.
A frame for berries
This window frame hangs in the oak tree in the front yard normally I have a plant hanging in the frame.
Since it is winter all our plants in pots were moved in the greenhouse for protection so I needed something in the window frame. Low and behold I thought about the Pyracantha berries and I must say they look great accented by the pine tree across the street.
The stuff in the window frame becomes a picture in itself.
A splash of color under the oak tree is just enough to put a smile on your face as you drive by.
Sometimes it just takes a little bit of imagination to repurpose something for a new idea.
Tiny calf and its mom
This calf I believe was born the day before yesterday.
It is a tiny calf so more than likely it was premature but it seems to be getting around good and being quite active.
Texas sage & her beautiful blooms
The blooms of the Texas Sage are high contrast to the dull sage-colored leaves of the plant.
I love it when this plant blooms and it blooms a few different times of the year.
The beauty of a rose
The beauty of this rose is accented with a macro lens, dewdrops, and lighting.
I have posted this pic before but I re-edited and reduced the lighting and really like it a lot.
My Air Plant Display
I had been wanting some airplants for quite a while. I love how they look and they are fun to display in different ways.
Here are a few of mine but after I did the pictures I remembered that there were two more in our bedroom that did not get their pics taken.
I have them scattered through out the house in different locations.
I bought a large order of them and shared them with my sister Sheri. All the plants were in really good shape even though they were mail ordered.
They are a funny little plant I water these about every 5 days I find if not they dry out and start to shrivel. There is no soil, no rocks just some fake moss in a few of the containers for looks.
I made the concrete wire containers as well as the one on the stand. The shells and the salt lamp I already had.
Sometimes it is the tiny things in life that bring us such joy and can always put a smile on our face.
Purple showers and barbed wire
We have purple showers planted everywhere around here they are easy to grow and invasive so they spread quickly.
The scientific name is Ruellia simplex ‘Purple Showers also known as mexican petunia.
There is something about flowers, fence post and barbed wire that I love.
Bird bath party time
I have been taking quite a few pics lately of the birds having birdbath parties.
Out of the corner of my eye I spotted some very bright low and behold it was a Bullock’s Oriole. These birds are from West Texas not our area so its not wonder I have never seen one before. I had to come in and grab my Birds of Texas book and look him up.
Notice the water spraying across the picture from the action of the birds in the water.
I have seen him two days in a row and both times he was with the Eastern Bluebirds so I am guessing they are friends.
Since the birds seem to crowd into the shallow birdbath the most I am going to take my deep ones and turn them into planters and I will figure out how to have a trough type bird bath so 20 or so can get in at the same time. Just imagine the pictures with that.
Its so funny because there will be 8 in the birdbath and another 8 flying around waiting for the shallow birdbath. By the time they are done there is no water left in the birdbath.
I go out and refill it and they will come back while I am still outside.
I love my birds as much as my grandmother and my dad did.
Appreciate the beauty of nature it is all around us take the time to enjoy it each and everyday.
