May Morning Stroll 'Round the Mountain

Lofty sky views;
blustery
warm wet
spring weather,
a neighbor's
lovely yard,
the forest floor~
ALIVE!!
with
wiggling
in the wind
greenery...

Night Time Visitor (bottom)

A truly
lumbering,
very large
(-gigantonormous-)
frog...
we stumbled
upon at night.
His little arms
had joints...
and he looked as if
he could do push-ups
and hang unto a tree trunk.
He was really strange.
We kept him under
a laundry basket for
our daughter to see!
Just another
cool example
of how nature
is very
LARGE in...
the
High Country
... here :)

And...
another recent
visitor.
:)

The Beautious and the Not So

...Beautiful views,
blooming pink!...
lovely striped
skies
and
a stranger
than life
'lumpty
bumpty' tree!

Sunrise!

Heavenly Lighting

Illumination

A Study in Backlighting

Pencils?

Some of the
wood
we recovered
from
the Ice Storm
(of Dec. 25, 2009.)
Basically, our
entire property
was covered
in downed
tree limbs,
whole trees
and branches
and thousands
of twigs....


which I have
been painstakingly
raking up for days!
(I'm still NOT done!)
We were able to
replace OVER
a cord of
firewood
for next year :)
But it is beautiful~eh?

Delightful Rain

Fleurs dans le joli jardin :)

Color!

Hard

... to obtain
this particular
this shot!
A poem/song
I sang with K-3
year olds that I
taught last year:
"Butterfly butterfly
flutter by, flutter by
butterfly.
Butterfly butterfly
flutter by, flutter by--
flutter by me!!"

Flowered Mountain Stream; a photomontage

Tiny wood daisies

wild...
along side
of the road.

Yellow