Despite my gloomy post, yesterday, the day actually started quite nicely.
For one thing I wasn’t seeing double.
Rejoicing this opportunity, Grant and I decided to go off for an early drive around the local countryside.
Which was a lovely way to start the day.
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This was a failed attempt to capture the cheeky “DD” birds, but I sort of liked the moody result.
And this was a picture of nothing in particular.
Grant stopped to turn the car around and I liked the look of dried grasses in a field. My kind of colours.
Then I wanted a picture of the white-barked trees across the road, but Grant has not yet learned to instantly obey my commands.
Another group of trees got obscured by a truck.
Oh well.
White-barked trees are so beautiful.
Some, I know, are aspens, these, I’m not sure.
We rolled on past the traditional white picket fence.
With a wide open horizon
And traces of Fall still evident on the hills.
With so many trees naked, I was watching for silhouettes which were aplenty:
It was a good day for animals as well.
We stopped so I could get out to take a picture and we were accosted by this little chap.
As you can see, he was quite keen to meet us and I would love to have cuddled him, but we decided we shouldn’t risk upsetting someone’s dogs!
He had a smaller friend but I really don’t think they would have had us for brunch.
Reluctantly, I just took his picture and we continued.
In a meadow, a young fawn grazed, undisturbed by our gaze.
There were lots of deer, dotted all around.
A gaggle of wild turkeys crossed the road, in too much of a hurry for a good picture, but it was nice to see them as our own little family have not been to visit lately. As we looked up the road, 2 young bobcats crossed, going the other way, but they were in a real hurry!
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Noticing these bright yellow leaves against the sky, I yelled “STOP!” and this time it worked, so I clambered out.
Glancing over my shoulder, I noticed something else:
Grant had told me there was a pond where he had seen geese the day before:
“What?” they asked. “We do this everyday.” and I could watch them all day too. Swans and geese remind me of a favourite bird, now earthbound: Concorde.
Before long we were 2 minutes from home:
That’s “Maison de Yeti”, right there in the middle.
Ironic that this neighbour, a few months ago, managed to wipe out our electricity for several hours by flattening not one but two power poles.
One day I am going to turn the corner and flatten that thing.
My eyesight, you know.
Someone (not me) hung a couple of masks on it.
Does it remind you of anyone?
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As we turn onto my road, we pass a horse farm. Once, their dogs came to greet us and we drove them home with much snorting and slurping! I so want a dog!
But for now, I’ll have to settle for scenery.
Later on, as I rode the exercise bike, a bobcat kitten came to look at me through the window.
Well, not really, but I did look at him,
Of course, the camera was elsewhere.
What a lovely scenic drive!
Upstate NY is lovely.
Your photography continues to inspire! Wow!
Thank you. It’s not hard when you have the right subject!
Just lovely, all of them!
You have so much nature where you live – or maybe you just have the eye for it!
I lived too long in suburbia so I soak Nature up now!