Two Weeks Of Weather

I'm still down with a respiratory infection. The majority of my days are spent sleeping. I don't have energy to do much. I still manage to snap a photo or two of what is happening outside my window. 

 

This post documents the weird weather we have experienced in my part of Canada, over the past two weeks.

 

Two weeks ago, our trees were still mainly green.

Male Cardinal

Female Cardinal

A sudden drop in temperature turned the leaves to beautiful golden hues.

Dark-eyed Junco

A further drop in temperature brought snow.

Goldfinch

 

Male Downy Woodpecker

It's mild again, and we are experiencing severe thunderstorms, and high winds.

Black Squirrel (Bandit)

This little guy seems as confused as the rest of us, but he poses nicely for peanuts!

 

I'm only posting once this week, and sharing with a variety of memes...

 MANDARIN ORANGE MONDAY

MONDAY MELLOW YELLOWS

NATURE NOTES

TUESDAY AROUND THE WORLD

RUBY TUESDAY TOO

OUR WORLD TUESDAY

WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

OUTDOOR WEDNESDAY

 

I hope to get around to visit the blogs participating in the above memes,

but please forgive me if I don't.

 

Cheers!

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Spring Rain

sharing with...

 

I HEART MACRO  

MACRO MONDAY 

MONDAY MELLOW YELLOWS

OUR WORLD TUESDAY

 

  Thanks to Laura at Shine the Divine for taking over the hosting of " i heart macro"

and

Thanks to Gemma at Monday Mellow Yellows for starting up a new "Mellow Yellow" meme

and

Thanks to Jennifer at Cottage Country Reflections for taking on the task of hosting

Our World Tuesday

 

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A Walk In The Park With Beep

We had our first snowfall on Boxing Day.

 A perfect night to take a walk in the park with our granddaughter.

 Beep and Papa

 

 

Our favourite tree

 

sharing with...

MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

BLUE MONDAY

OUR WORLD TUESDAY
RUBY TUESDAY 2

 Happy New Year everyone!
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Half Corked

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I love wine, and collect wine corks! I'm not sure why.

Oh I know why I drink the wine...not real sure why I keep the corks!

 

sharing with...

MACRO MONDAY

MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

 

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Summer In Jars

 

Peach, Raspberry and Grape jam.

 

sharing with...

 

MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

 

RUBY TUESDAY 2

 

REDNESDAY

 

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Hibiscus Rosasinensis

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Tropical hibiscus

No, I didn't take a trip to the tropics...

this beauty lives in a pot in the yard during the summer.

The flower is about the size of a tea saucer.

The beautiful blooms last only one day.

 

sharing with...

 

YOUR SUNDAY BEST

MACRO MONDAY

I HEART MACRO

MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

MANDARIN ORANGE MONDAY

 

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Yellowjacket

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Sharing with -

CAMERA CRITTERS

YOUR SUNDAY BEST

THE SIMPLE THINGS

 MACRO MONDAY

MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

I HEART MACRO

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Bright Burst

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Sharing with -

MACRO MONDAY

I HEART MACRO

MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

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In The Rain

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 Check out beautiful photos @YOUR SUNDAY BEST

Find Paradise @ POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE

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See who's been creative HERE @ CAROL'S MAGICAL MONDAY Blog Hop

Lots of yellow over @  MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

Fabulous flowers over @ FLORAL FRIDAY

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Work In Progress

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This sweet seahorse lampwork bead is just under an inch in size.

A certain little girl will be thrilled with the necklace I am making for her!

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Beautiful images on view HERE @ THE CREATIVE EXCHANGE

See more shades of yellow HERE @ MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

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Candlelight

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Pente-πέντε- In Colour

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See it here in monochrome

Pente is a strategy game created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel, based on the Japanese game ninuki-renju, a variant of renju or gomoku. The players alternate in placing stones of their color on free intersections. The players aim to create five vertically, horizontally or diagonally connected stones of their color. Captures are obtained by surrounding pairs of an opponents' stones vertically, horizontally, or diagonally with stones of their own placed at the ends of the pair. A player wins by either getting 5 (or more) of their stones in a row or by capturing 5 (or more) pairs of their opponent's stones. Pente (πέντε) is the number five in Greek.

Lampwork Lovelies

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An assortment of handmade glass beads, each one smaller than 1/2 an inch.

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The Seahorse

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One of my granddaughter's creations from her cutouts book,

 "The Marvelous Book Of Magical Horses"

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See more shades of yellow HERE @ MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

See more hues of RED @ RUBY TUESDAY2

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Happy Holidays

Season's Greetings

My favourite Christmas ornament

I'm taking a holiday hiatus...see you in the new year!!

CHEERS!

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Bead Bokeh

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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold,

everything is softer and more beautiful. 

~Norman Vincent Peale

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See more shades of yellow HERE @ MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

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See more hues of RED @ RUBY TUESDAY

Lots more red to see over @ Sue's blog on REDNESDAY

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Froggy- Macro/Mellow Yellow Monday

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Itty Bits -Macro/Mellow Yellow Monday

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So...I really want a macro lens! But I can't afford one right now (it's on my Christmas list). I thought I would try a magnifying filter. I didn't have much hope really, but I was pleasantly surprised with the results of my first try with the Raynox DCR-250 Super Macro Conversion Lens. The Raynox DCR-250 is not a dedicated lens…meaning you can’t attach it directly to your camera. It clips on to a lens with a filter size between 52mm to 67mm. The clips grab on to the internal ring on the front lens element.

The snail shell and feather above are teeny tiny...how teeny tiny? Well the shell is about 1/4 of an inch...

Size comparison

So...what do you think? Was it worth the 80 bucks I paid for it?

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Gnome Home

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Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)

This species may be recognized from illustrations in children's books, as the classical fairy or gnome mushroom or toadstool, (more often in red). It may be the source of the folk term "toadstool" as it was once thought that handling toads would give you warts, and if a toad sat on a mushroom, it would develop warts as well...hence toadstool.

The Fly Agaric is poisonus, but will not cause death in humans. The poison was once used to kill house flies.

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Hanging On - Macro/Mellow Yellow Monday

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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

~Henry David Thoreau

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