Day 291

Since we didn't have power, I went to my parents' house to charge my computer, camera and cell phone. After they had finished charging, dad showed me the damage near the house.

This tree fell in between their house and a neighbor's. It fell over the drive way of the next neighbor. By the time that I saw it, someone had cut it up to unblock both driveways. There was a pile of trunk cuttings and a large root ball. There was so much debris, that I didn't want to risk falling on the acorns to get closer to the root ball.

There were acorns and berries scattered on the ground. This cluster of acorns was in a triangle.

In the evening, at our house, a red spider was making a large web on a lower window. However, my camera had a lot of trouble photographing it clearly, so the color of the spider and detail of the web showed nicely. Also, it was a quick moving spider. This is a photo of it resting after finishing the web.

Day 199

Today, I went to Shockoe Bottom for a baby shower. Afterwards, I took photos of the tree beside my car.

Day 198

Today I went to the house of two close friends, to celebrate the birthday of one of them. Before starting to drink the Lambic that my husband bought for the lady of the house and I to share, I took some photos of a tree.

Day 193

Near dusk, I took photos of this tree that has white patches on it.

Day 78

Today started with a bit of disappointment. An Egret or Heron flew past our window, so I went out to take it's photo. It was snowing when I went out, so this was really a mission. I found it hiding behind some brush in the creek. I got closer to try to take a better photo, but it flew off and I couldn't find it again. This disappointment was rectified by a friend telling me that we will go to a part of the river that they are at and I can take photos there on a different day. This makes me very happy. Photos of those bird will of course be in a different post.

What did improve the photographs for today, was that pesky Cardinal. It actually stayed still long enough to photograph a lot! I'm very excited by this, as it's my favorite bird aside from Carrion birds.

This lovely Cardinal stared at me for a bit, but was also looking around at other things.

Same Cardinal

Same Cardinal, flying off.

Song Sparrows are very common here. I finally got a photo of one.

Same Song Sparrow

As I was looking for the Egret/Heron, I saw this large root ball that had moss growing on it.

Snow was falling while I was outside on my Egret/Heron search. Here is a bush with some snow on it.

Day 71

Today, I headed to Shockoe Bottom (in the city, where most of the bars and clubs are) to deliver something. While I was walking back to my car, I decided to talk some photos.

I love seeing plants growing through man-made objects. In this case, the plants are growing through the foundation of a building.

These are the same kind of plants, but these are growing through the sidewalk.

The trees lining 18th street were gnarly with new growth.

These are the roots of one of the trees. I loved how these looked among the rocks from the street and glass from broken bottles...ah the bar district...

When I got home, a hawk landed in a near by tree. Sorry for the blurry photo. I went outside to try to take a better photo, but it flew away. Hopefully the hawks will stay in our neighborhood and I can take better photos.