December 19th, 2008 Series

On December 19th, we were lucky enough to have a warm front come through Louisville, Ky. (I'm endlessly fascinated by the weather here in Louisville) It actually got up to 70 degrees that day. These are photos taken in my back yard from relatively the same angle at different times throughout the day.

Quick Update

Happy Holidays to everyone!

I've been ill the past week so I haven't gotten anything tweaked to put up. I took a series of photos from the 19th when we had a warm front go through so there are some interesting pics from that that I'll have up maybe monday.

Thanks for reading the old bloggeroo.. I really am very grateful!

Subtle Beauty of Winter

I keep hoping that the sun will creep out or that the blue herons, ducks and other critters will creep into my yard, giving me a good photo op. No suck luck unfortunately. It's all been rain with a dab of snow here and there.

I keep hoping that I'll get some sort of spectactular, uplifting picture but unfortuantely in this cloudly light it's just not happening.

So today, while it's warm, it's still raining and the wind is kicking up really hard. I decided to embrace it though instead of fighting it. Above are some of the pictures that I've taken over the last week or so.

Weather like this makes me moody. I considered that if it emtionally talks to me, even while that emotion isn't happy, it will probably move other people and maybe folks will see what I see. Subtle and maybe a tad sad beauty in the middle of winter.

Winter Sunset

These were taken last Thursday, in my back yard. There was a weather front moving out creating the most beautiful colors..

Blue Heron

All last week we had company staying with us so I had to forego posting on ye olde blogs. This week though things are back to "normal".

We survived munchkin's birthday party and he seemed to have a great time with all
of the people who came to celebrate his birthday. I was really surprised how
well he handled all of the noise. Very little phases this kid.. I was
definitely "blessed" when I had this little guy.

I have been SOOO antsy and sorta bummed that I hadn't had time to get out and get any pictures. I wanted to go to Churchill Downs two saturdays ago but we had a "family emergency" that day and I was unable to go.

Luckily, this beautiful guy appeared in my back yard yesterday morning right after sun up. He was very kind in that he posed in the sun for me so that I could get some decent pictures.

I hope everyone has a happy mundey!

Baby "Gray" Jay

It's a very coold and "blustery" day today in Kentucky. We are getting some rare, early snow showers and it really looks "winter-y" outside. Everything is very gray, and the leaves are all off of the trees now. If the snow would accumulate a bit so that it blanketed everything, that would be ok but the snow isn't sticking. So it's just cold, and wet and icky..

Because of this, I went digging for pictures from the summer. I would much prefer to think about summer things than this cold day.

Above is a photo of a baby Gray Jay in the tree outside our home office window. I was sitting at the desk, pecking away at the keyboard when I noticed that the momma jay was making an awful ruckus in the tree. To this day I don't know why she was so upset but when I looked more closely to investigate, I saw that there was a young Gray Jay in the tree.

Of course I had to whip out the ole camera and get as many pictures as possible.. which is what I did. I didn't get very many good ones but the one above turned out pretty well.

I hope that the day in your neck of the woods is warmer and a bit sunnier than it is here..

As always, if you like any of the pictures you see and would like prints, you can find them at www.abounaderphoto.com or you can email me at heather@abounaderphoto.com and I'll find them for you.