Steve`s Country
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Nature’s Art #01.
Good morning everyone and welcome back to the art in nature series begun last year. There will be a slight schedule change, it will now be posted Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. At least I’m going to try it on those days for a while, unless I forget. That is always a possibility. And I will be starting to include some winter art as well. It gets daylight so late these days, even though the days are getting longer now, though at a very slow pace. But with the thick cloudy skies that daylight does not arrive early. Even the birds don’t show up until about 8:15 am for the early ones, others don’t show up until 8:30.
However, it’s time for our art in nature pictures…
A puffball mushroom, the exact size of a golf ball. I thought it was a golf ball until I got closer to it. Very cool with a nice pattern of grooves on it’s surface, though they don’t show up very well in the pic.
A large toothed aspen leaf standing on edge in the snow. There was several of them that day. I thought they looked cool with the veining pattern showing up so nicely too.
And there we have a new start for the new year in our art in nature series. I hope you all have a nice weekend and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
Daily Pics 2020…#4.
Good morning on this first Saturday of the New Year! Hopefully everyone can enjoy themselves a bit this weekend whether you are busy with something or just at home relaxing for a while. Muffin has had her breakfast and is at her usual spot at the window. It is still dark and cloudy. Certainly wasn’t many birds around yesterday, except for a short time when over 100 goldfinches showed up. I couldn’t believe that there was so many. I have never seen a goldfinch here during the winter and this year a flock that size! Every winter is different in some way and often brings some surprises with it. That just makes things interesting. I will have more to say about that shortly.
But for now, it’s time for more bright flowers to give us some needed sunshine for our day…
Due to a large iron fence I was unable to get any closer to these flowers which was unfortunate, they certainly look beautiful. And it was the only place that I saw them.
These flowers are certainly a very bright and cheerful bunch! They are a small flower and were quite plentiful.
On Monday I will be starting with our many lovely wildflowers found around this area. I hope you will enjoy them, even though they may not be as big and showy as the garden variety flowers. Tomorrow will be something a little different for us to enjoy. I hope you all have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
