Happy New Year!!

Wishing Everyone Peace, Good Health, and Happiness for the New Year!!

This is a photo of a Stellar Jay who is one of my daily visitors.

I'm sure he is hopping for lots of peanuts this year!  :o)

Chickadee!!!

It's easier to get out and take photos of birds with the warmer 40 degree

temperatures.  This is a picture of a Chestnut-Backed Chickadee.

These seem to be more common on the Kenai Peninsula.

48 Degree Temperatures!!!

Forty degree Chinook Winds are making a lot of the snow melt away.

I was so excited to see these little Matchstick Lichens melt out of the snow

during this warm spell!!!

I love the lovely soft green colors...really good on the eyes after

so much white!!

Raven on a Mission

I love this raven photo, he looks so determined to get to his destination.

These birds never cease to spur on my curiosity about them.

They are very smart and can be very amusing to watch.

Ice Encrusted Hedges

Some of our hedges are encrusted with ice, due to the warmer temperatures....

so beautiful!!!!

Frost Flowers

I have seen photos of "Frost Flowers" taken by a grad student on his way

back from the North Pole on the frozen sea.  They are little protrusions of ice,

delicate, like snowflakes.  I took this photo this last November on Kenai Lake 

right after it had frozen over....