Went for a walk with the Princess Zoey this morning (as usual)…she gave me a somewhat classic Scottie silhouette pose (not like usual)
This is not supposed to be happening this early in the year….
But it’s kind of purdy….
And The Princess doesn’t mind the pleasant weather each morning…..
“Coming and Going” or “To and Fro”. Whichever the case, it is always so much fun to be the first in the park after (or during) a snowfall.
It wasn’t much of a snow, but it was snow nonetheless….
Dead as a doornail, but still majestic in its stature is this Oak tree….
You see things differently when it snows (or fogs)…this looks like it could be an old farm road, or just a natural, coincidental clearing in the trees
I sure would have loved to sit around and watch the snow melt….
A foggy start to the morning…
Funny how my tree friends show a whole new side of their character on a foggy winter morning
Nature’s Depth of Field….
The fog is settling down into the tree line
My friends, the Persimmons
A tree in search of a picnic…
Crossing paths
The blue Blue Heron friend
No, the Killdear is not stuck to the parking lot stripe….
Plums from my backyard Mexican Plum tree…notice the ant “walking the plank” (the pine needle)
Landed on the top rail of the fence…no bounce here (I love my 50mm lens)
I love this time of year…when the plums are ripe and give off a sweet aroma scent
They obviously scattered about once the hit the ground….usually
But the paver joints have a way of lining them up in a cross-formation when they’re rolled, swept, or blown off the patio
My front yard Desert Willow shows a bountiful life being in bloom and a vitality in setting a seed head.
My back yard Mexican Plum, I fear, is showing signs of a good life coming to an end as I had to remove yet another dead limb today
These guys were all over a Keller park this afternoon - if it was bloomin' they were busy fluttering
Already sickly is this tree, and it's only spring...an early spring at that
They are a colorful lot with bookend wings...I think this is the Common Buckeye Butterfly
These two soon realized that this pool had a "no lifeguard on duty" policy...so there they sat pitifully longing for a nice cool dip in the pool
I called this kid's backyard recreation somewhat "ingenious". The property manager I was with during our morning property walk called it "redneck"....
A favorite tree...the hickory has a great trunk and bark pattern
Anyone want to venture a guess on what are these North Texas spring bloomers? Hint: they all are small trees/large shrubs…and taken nearly two weeks ago (so they’re done blooming now).
Rain drop about to drop out of my Mexican Plum
Looking up, from under....
Huddled up - a cold front was coming
A soft start to the morning
A place for nesting...but presently witout eggs.
Back in the woods off the beaten path I found this Mexican Plum in early bloom...with the morning sunrise aglow in the background.
Spring already? Tell me it's not so. I'm not done wearing warm cool jackets yet. Some gut feeling tells me these guys are gonna get caught without a blanket one more time this winter, and they will get hurt. I guess the macro len/filter stuff needs dug out the back of the closet, huh? (Callery Pear, BTW)
A Good Morning Saturday - a particularly beautiful sunrise it was. And even more so when I turned my back to her and found this Oak waiting for the same glimpse of light and warming of the soul, just like me.
Leafless trees silhouetted against a sunrise or sunset do it to me every time. This, along with news from home gave some calm to the end of an emotional day...
That she is a stately (Post) Oak with a true stature of magnificance...even in the winter. And especially when seen standing in front of a beautiful sunrise glow.
This is a cool story – Hurricane Ike came calling in September 2008, and that allowed this guy do his magic, after-the-fact:
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