Snow, birds, beasts – it was
February business as usual around here this week. If you haven’t already seen
them, you should definitely check out Dr. M’s two posts this week – I’m only
sharing a couple of the photos that he has on his blog. Go here
to see a Collage of Cardinals (really – go now!), and go here
to see some of the best pictures he’s taken (in my humble opinion).
Saturday,
February 2nd
I just love cardinals in the
winter – that bright red always makes my day.
Sunday,
February 3rd
Annual Meeting day at church. I
was voted onto the Vestry & I do believe that my transition to Church Lady
is now complete: Vestry, Altar Guild, Choir, Eucharistic Lay Visitor…
This is what I did during the
meeting (if you look at the table on the left in the picture above you can see
that the hat is almost complete).
I finished the hat &
promptly gave it away – how’s that for efficient?
Meanwhile, more cardinals…
Monday,
February 4th
The State of the Bug – listening
to the 6th Harry Potter book & Professor Dumbledore is getting
ready to drink the potion…
Dr. M saw crows on his way home
from school.
Tuesday,
February 5th
A Trio of Squirrels.
Wednesday,
February 6th
Here are a couple of the
pictures from Dr. M’s second post this week (here).
The angel is haunting and the photo bombing sheep is hilarious. A good
photographic day.
Thursday,
February 7th
Snowy farmland.
Frozen leaf.
“Seriously dude – you’re going to take my picture again?”
Friday,
February 8th
Fun with birds: two starlings,
one sparrow
Go to Mamma Fran’s blog here
to see the blogs of all the other Project 365 participants. Have a great week!
Most of our photos are taken with a 12
megapixel Nikon D5000 DSLR, using a 55-200mm zoom lens. This is the camera that
Dr. M takes with him most days. He also takes pictures with our old reliable 7
megapixel Canon Powershot A710. The Bug uses our new Nikon Coolpix S6200 most of the
time. If you’re interested in which camera was used for a particular shot, just
ask!
Your gift recipient is rightfully happy. The hat matched her coat perfectly!
ReplyDeleteI love the old cemeteries with the sculptures. An elderly aunt with alzheimer's died last week and the funeral was last Wednesday. Not a sculpture, headstone or upright marker to be found. Only markers placed flush on the ground. Really, a very boring cemetery.
ReplyDeleteLove to see your week in pictures.
Congrats to you (I think)... was only on the "V" once and walked out of a meeting of our then very dysfunctional church (toxic rector) never to return (well for two years anyhow). From that point forward, I fully refuse to be on the Vestry. Nope... don't want to be involved in the day to day poop. :c)
ReplyDeleteLove the leaf in the ice and that sheep is hilarious. What an expression.
ReplyDeleteSo do they call you the Happy Hooker? Ahem....sorry. :)
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I love that you promptly finished the hat and immediately gifted such treasure!
ReplyDeleteThe photos, as usual, are most excellent!
That first cardinal picture looks like it belongs in a calendar.
ReplyDeleteThat donkey does look a little perturbed.
ReplyDeleteI like the frozen leaf picture!
what a fabulous week in photos! they never disappoint. hope all is well on your end. i've been busy chasing my schedule here... or just plain too tired to think about the blog. hoping to change that soon. thanks for checking in on us. hugs! ;)
ReplyDeleteGreat shots this week!
ReplyDeleteLoved those last one fo the sparrow in the trees.
I loved harry potter too! It's bee a while since I read them, one day I will probably have to re read them with muffinhead, how fun!
Blessings
R
I always love your weekly picture post. The cardinals look so cheerful in a bleak winter environment they always make me smile!
ReplyDeleteCutest church lady ever. :-) I finished reading Harry potter to Colby a few weeks ago. It never gets old.
ReplyDeleteHow cool that you get to knit during a meeting! :)
ReplyDeletedid you tell your friend you were going to make her a blue hat, or was it just happy co-incidence that she was wearing a matching coat?
ReplyDeleteEither way - nice knitting, and always good to see squirrells
Thanks everyone! About the hat - I was working on the hat before the meeting & M commented on how she loved the color & that it would match her hat - so I just decided to give it to her when I was done :)
ReplyDeleteI did the same thing for a lady at a bowling tournament I was in last weekend. I was actually making it for someone else and had asked her granddaughter what her favorite color was....but Joy kept bragging on the scarf I was making...so I gave it to her when I left. She loves it. I loved the photos this week...especially the one of you listening to Harry Potter.
ReplyDeleteI like the frozen leaf, too, and the angel. Cardinals always get my juices flowing - did you know there are yellow cardinals? It's a genetic thing - they're amazing. Some are very pretty, but I still love the red ones the best.
ReplyDeleteI saw a cardinal in a tree close to my place this week. It's very unusual - maybe our trees and bushes are getting big enough that they have decided to check out the territory for new homes. I hope so!
Do you know what crows have when they get together? A caw-cus! LOL
Church lady! hahaha I love it.
ReplyDeleteI think crocheting during any kind of meeting is the thing to do... I detest meetings BTW :)
Love the expressions on the sheep!
So much to say!! Love the vibrant color of the cardinals against snow. The hat?? Oh my now THAT is how to give a gift!
ReplyDeleteI went looking for the collage of cardinals thinking it might be in reference to the Pope's recent announcement (ha ha)...but seriously, it didn't link to cardinals. Still nice photos, but not the red birds.
ReplyDeleteLovely hat. I think the sheep ate something that wasn't ripe yet!