Rocks along Minnewaska Lake in New York
and one to stand on with a view
Spiky Squares in March
Becky says:
Your squares can have jagged rooves, pointy beaks, bristly seats, serrated edges, prickly nests, spiny trees, or even barbed relationships. Let your imagination go spiky, but don’t forget to stay square!
Spiky lamps posts along the road
Wordless Wednesday
Spiky Squares in March
Becky says:
Your squares can have jagged rooves, pointy beaks, bristly seats, serrated edges, prickly nests, spiny trees, or even barbed relationships. Let your imagination go spiky, but don’t forget to stay square!
Some spiky antlers on this deer.
Pull Up A Seat
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Looks Like a Face
When walking along a trail I am always looking up, down, and all around. Yesterday as I was looking down I spotted the remains of what looked like a walnut. Staring up at me. Perfect for Cee’s challenge looks like a face.
Spiky Squares in March
Becky says:
Your squares can have jagged rooves, pointy beaks, bristly seats, serrated edges, prickly nests, spiny trees, or even barbed relationships. Let your imagination go spiky, but don’t forget to stay square!
A spiky lamp post against a beautiful sunset taken from a highway on a drive home, heading west.
Spiky Squares in March
Becky says:
Your squares can have jagged rooves, pointy beaks, bristly seats, serrated edges, prickly nests, spiny trees, or even barbed relationships. Let your imagination go spiky, but don’t forget to stay square!
A turtle with a spiky tail
Tuesday Photo Challenge : Wonder
Frank says: Whether you want to feature the Wonders of Nature, the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World or make us wonder what you may have photographed, there are plenty of directions for you to take this theme! And, of course, I expect all of your ideas to be wonderful!!
I spotted these Mallard Ducks swimming in the local pond, but the female did not look like all the other females. She was much whiter, instead of brown.
Females are usually more brown all over like this:
I wondered if she was an Albino duck if there is such a thing. I did not have to wonder about her mate though- every time I return to the pond they are there together.
Spiky Squares in March
Becky says:
Your squares can have jagged rooves, pointy beaks, bristly seats, serrated edges, prickly nests, spiny trees, or even barbed relationships. Let your imagination go spiky, but don’t forget to stay square!
Spiky toes on this Sparrow
Spiky Squares in March
Becky says:
Your squares can have jagged rooves, pointy beaks, bristly seats, serrated edges, prickly nests, spiny trees, or even barbed relationships. Let your imagination go spiky, but don’t forget to stay square!
A spiky looking crane as it builds new apartments along the NJ shoreline
Nurturing Thursday
Wordless Wednesday
Spiky Squares in March
Spiky Squares in March
Becky says:
Your squares can have jagged rooves, pointy beaks, bristly seats, serrated edges, prickly nests, spiny trees, or even barbed relationships. Let your imagination go spiky, but don’t forget to stay square!
Spiky trees waving at the full moon
Jo’s Monday Walk
The sun was shining and I headed out to one of my local favorite trails. It’s still pretty chilly here, even though Friday the temps hit 73 Degrees!! It felt like summer! The snow has melted, and most of the mud was gone. The air was filled with the sound of the birds that had returned and were looking for mates, or perhaps just chatting and catching up with one another. I sometimes wonder what all their chirping to one another means when there is a tree filled with Grackles or Starlings.
The trail I walked through is green and lush in summer, this time of year it is brown and straw like, at one point on my walk I felt like I was on a set of Star Trek-or Lost in Space, shows from the 1960’s with what they imagined as “futuristic” sets.
I was able to walk a bit off the trail as everything was flattened from winter, and not covered with grass or branches.
A Cardinal stood out in contrast with his surroundings
A Sparrow was looking for food in the creek that runs through the trail
And the Grackles were everywhere- calling to one another
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The Red Bellied Woodpecker stopped to say hello
and then found himself in the spotlight of the sun
The Red Winged Blackbirds are back…
Mr. Robin too. Every year they seem to hang around for the winter more and more
I looked up and saw a Downy Woodpecker- searching for insects in the tree trunk
and spotted an overturned tree- pulled from the ground no doubt by one of the fierce wind storms we had a few weeks ago. Its roots still embedded in the ground it had once stood on.
Snowdrop flowers had broken through the ground along the banks of the creek- a welcome sign of spring
And just as I was leaving, Mr. Mallard posed so nicely atop a rock in the creek, I waved him good bye until next time!
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #37: History
My great grandparents and their children, my grandmother the girl on the left
My Grandmother and Grandfather and four of their six children, my mother the tallest in the photo
My parents
History. We look back at the photos, how the generations grew, my grandmother had one sister, but she went on to have six children, only 2 daughters having children, 4 each. The generations growing a little more. Sometimes from generation to generation the tides shift, family rifts occur, siblings become estranged, cousins grow up not knowing one another at all. Lost generations.
Then there are the family members like my Aunt, 18 years my senior who I am thankful to have in my life. We have always been close, though generations apart, we never felt a “generation gap.” We have both had falling outs with our siblings, and have come to accept that life goes on and in many ways for the better. We are cut from the same cloth, bound by generational blood, and in this case fortunate to be. Family history. Unlike any other kind of history.
Spiky Squares in March
Becky says:
Your squares can have jagged rooves, pointy beaks, bristly seats, serrated edges, prickly nests, spiny trees, or even barbed relationships. Let your imagination go spiky, but don’t forget to stay square!
A Sparrow amid some spiky branches
Cee’s B & W Challenge: Gates & Fences
Spiky Squares in March
Becky says:
Your squares can have jagged rooves, pointy beaks, bristly seats, serrated edges, prickly nests, spiny trees, or even barbed relationships. Let your imagination go spiky, but don’t forget to stay square!
It may only be March, but my head is already thinking about the beach. Here’s a spiky straw in my iced coffee last summer.
Spiky Squares in March
Becky says:
Your squares can have jagged rooves, pointy beaks, bristly seats, serrated edges, prickly nests, spiny trees, or even barbed relationships. Let your imagination go spiky, but don’t forget to stay square!
Spiky beaks
and Spiky crab legs in a spiky beak!
A Photo a Week Challenge: Cityscape/Townscape
The view looking east from a 21st floor apartment on Manhattan’s upper west side.
Looking downtown from East 86th Street
Lower Manhattan skyline from Hoboken, NJ
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Sunrise
This week Frank says: This week’s theme is another instance of surprised that I haven’t used this theme before! While Morning has been a theme, Sunrise has not been used yet. As I always look for the themes to be accessible to everyone, I figured that the Sun is available to most of us, Earthlings. Of course, it does happen early in the day, so night owls might be disadvantaged, but I’m sure their creative minds can come up with a workaround for rising early!
One of my most favorite things to do when staying overnight at the NJ Shore is to waken before sunrise and sit on the beach to watch the sun rise over the ocean. With camera and coffee in hand, I walk one block to the ocean from the place we usually stay, and sit on the sand. The following photos are in the order they were taken as the sun came up. I love to see the horizon turn pink, the sun hinting at making its appearance. Usually I find myself with a lump in my throat as the bright orange orb appears, it seems to happen every time. I don’t know if it is because of the beauty of the sun rising, or perhaps actually bearing witness to the start of a new day, the peace and quiet as if I am the only one who exists at that moment.
The light on the beach changes once the intense orange of the sun has abated and it has risen. The day has officially begun.
Spiky Squares in March
Becky says:
Your squares can have jagged rooves, pointy beaks, bristly seats, serrated edges, prickly nests, spiny trees, or even barbed relationships. Let your imagination go spiky, but don’t forget to stay square!
Those are some spiky talons on Miss Hawk. Her name is Gracie and she hangs around one of the parks I visit. I always know she is around when the BlueJays start squawking, and gather in unison to scare her off. I was surprised to learn that even though she is a Hawk and much larger, in the bird world, this is how it works. It is an amazing thing to see a flock of Blue Jays literally stalking a Hawk until she heads out of the area.
Wordless Wednesday
A Day In The Life 
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