Serendipity

Geese have come to visit... So, I've been lax about adding too many posts lately, but it's not out of laziness...but either being busy or having problems with my shoulders (in which I have tendonitis in both rotor cuffs). However, I still have been taking photos...which I can do with one hand, thankfully! So here is a collection of photos I've taken this month...from frosted hillsides to feeding deer and honking geese. Enjoy! March, so far, has been a very snowy, blustery and snowy month for us here in upstate, New York. These next 5 photos were taken on March 3rd, 2013...and as you can see, we've had frosted trees, and a bit of snow to boot. Out of this particular storm, we received about 3-4 inches of snow when it was all said and done. At the break of dawn almost every morning, I have had the delight of seeing deer out behind our house in the field. The herd itself, totals no less than 18 deer, but within the herd are two distin...

Tasty bean greens! 7/8/12 I am still amazed every time I see a deer or another wild animal...they are such marvelous creatures to watch! I have had the good fortune over the past couple of weeks to get some decent shots of some deer that have visited the field across the road from us. I got this gal right before she headed into the weeds, and I didn't know she was there until I was alerted by my brother. 7/6/12 I decided to keep a more frequent watch of the field and was rewarded two mornings later with a mamma doe and her twins. At first, they came out of the weeds calmly...7/8/12 But children must play...7/8/12 Oops...not too sure footed, apparently!  7/8/12 That evening, the two adults were back out, and feeding. Yummy greens!  7/8/12 Alert to sights and sounds...7/8/12 They moved within a small area to eat, never venturing far from the edge of the field.  7/8/12 Here...she sees me but is more curious than a...

deer I photographed last Oct. 2011 (Every now and then, I come across an email that is just too good not to share. This is one of them.........) This is a very well written, hilarious story about an attempt to lasso a deer.  Why we shoot deer in the wild (A letter from someone who wants to remain anonymous, who farms, writes well and actually tried this) I had this idea that I could rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home. I filled the cattle feeder the...