Touch of Red

My View of The Day

                                                                     Doesn't this feel like summer?

These are the berries on a Juniper Tree.

This was shot in the winter......
see this video which was taken on the same day

Song and Snow in the Juniper Tree

This is a day in the winter when

when the Cedar Waxwings were visiting.

Turn on the sound and watch the snow fall.



My View of The Day

Its a WRAP!

I have a Thing for Cedar Hedges

My View of The Dawn

Just Me and My Camera

went for a walk before dawn.

We took the Road less travelled.

I

 I wanted to look for things to take a picture of...
that normally would be ignored by my naked eye,

like the whispiness of these branches covered in the morning snowfall.

That Cut came from here.

this discarded Christmas tree

disclaimer:

It is really the office camera, and there are no footsteps on the road, because no one was awake yet!

Would this Rose make it to your dried flower collection?

This rose bloom seems naturally preserved...

found on a rose shrub outside the office in Jan 2011.

My View Of The Day

I am dreaming of green.......this time of year

Dance of the Cedar Waxwings

In this video (not mine), you can really get a good look at the lovely cedar waxwings' features, such as the red tipped wings that were not visible on any of the photos or videos that I took,

but I was able to see them with my naked eye.

Does this look like a Dodo Bird to you?

Last night, we took a walk without the camera. The Man from the Office had my full attention. He was telling me how he was thinking about something which led him to search for the Island of Mauritus  in wikipedia and how that led him to a link to the DODO Bird. You see, he found out that this Island was the only home of the DODO bird. He was so animated in telling me all about what he found out about the DODO bird.........

I had only vague memories of what I had learned about the DODO BIRD in school. His enthusiasm prompted  me to look it up when we got back to the office, mainly because I wanted to see what it looked like again. (He had really covered almost every detail that wikipedia offered but with so much more excitement in his delivery.)  It became extinct so long ago, so there are no true photos of it, but only drawings and 3-d representations.

I was searching through some photos I had taken recently for another reason,

 and came across this.

It struck me that it reminded me of a DODO BIRD for some reason,

so I thought I would post this.

Did you know that Dodo Birds are related to pigeons and doves?

My View of The Day

It is still very drab and even colder outside today than yesterday.

What canopy of leaves feels more enchanted to you,

Yesterday or Today's view of The day?

I like them both so much..I couldn't choose only one of them.

Cold-FX really makes a difference!

I found myself picking up a Sunday Star today, and read a full two page
 article about Ginseng. I am sure there is something to it.

If you are curious and open minded about alternative medicine, this is an interesting read.
If you have been closed minded, you might reconsider.....

My View of The Day

It was actually such a drab day today,

that there was nothing inspiring to photograph to start off the New Year,

so I selected this canopy of green with the sun shining through.........
which is what I wish the View of the Day really looked like.

This is from High Park in the late summer this past year.

We were planning to go here today,
but it was just too Drab and Damp out to get motivated.

The Schnitzel Sneeze