Under the Shadow of Wings, I hear whispers in the wind. These tiny little birds are flying all around me, not afraid nor shy. They land on my camera at times as I am standing there near by.
I hear whispers in the wind from the fast beats of their wings. Who, who are these birds with their mighty wings?
But of course the tinniest of birds, the Chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee
If you stay there long enough, you might see the Shadow of the Wings. May your spirit take refuge in what follows; In the Whispers in the Wind.
What Do You Do in -18 Degree F, Well a lot of people are experiencing cold weather this week. For me as well, when I woke up this morning to minus 18 degrees F and windy. But the sun is out, so I have to go outside. Why you might ask? (video below)
A friend of mine from the blog post; WALKIN’, WRITIN’, WIT & WHIMSY, Told me about freezing Soap Bubbles in cold weather. So I had to give it a try.
Every bubble is different just like every snow flake is different. It was so much fun, my camera would start to malfunction after awhile, as well as my fingers. But, like a kid, I would go warm up and go back and do more.
There are a lot of different recipes for making the bubble mixture, if you don’t have the bubble stuff most children have on hand for summer fun. I used 3 cups of water, 1 cup of dish soap and 1 tbl corn syrup. The sugar is what helps form the crystals and helps the bubble to last longer.
It was windy out so mine kept popping as you can see in the video.
Ice Forming on Lake Superior, I love going to Lake Superior, everyday you will see something different. This first photo is Lake Superior in the Summer, you can see there is a nice little beach for walking along the shore line.
This photo below is the same beach, taken in December 2020. I was standing almost in the same spot. Notice the rocks on the right, the beach is a lot more narrow now and ice is beginning to form. It was very slippery.
This photo was taken last month, same spot and the rocks on the right. But now it is all ice all the way out to the left of the photo. There were footprints going out over the ice and I was tempted to walk out there. But I decided not to. That is some powerful water running underneath that ice.
It is tuff to get a good photo when the sky is gray and all the snow. This one shows a little bit more of how far the ice goes out from the shore line. The rocks are still on the right side of the photo.
This one is just looking straight out across Lake Superior with ice formations way out there. Quite the site seeing all this water and ice slowly closing in on you.
Sand frozen in the Ice, walking on the beach is a little slippery this time of year.
Doe a Deer a Female Deer, Ray a Drop of Golden Sun. Perfect line for todays photos because the sun actually came out for the first time in days. I stepped out the door with my camera in hand and off they ran. So I was able to get a couple of photos.
They have a way of looking right at me.
The two photos below are the same as the one above. Another blogger suggested cutting out the dark area above the deer. This first one I cropped it out but I feel it has to much for ground in it.
This second one I added some background to even out the photo and have the deer in the center of the photo. Which do you like better?
What Does Your Imagination See, shadows are quite fun sometimes. Sometimes during the winter I don’t always have a lot to photograph except for what my imagination sees. What do you see below?
I see a tree Gnome, actually there could be two faces, one at the top and the big shadow.
Actually, it is a big tree that fell over in a storm last fall and right where you see the shadow, that is where the tree broke off. Left side of the shadow is higher than the ride side. So it is an optical illusion really. 😏🤔
Science of Snow Sparkles, this is the one thing I love most about winter. When the sun comes out and you have a sea of sparkles glistening in the morning light. It is like a sea of diamonds that one cannot touch, you can only admire it from a far.
Snow sparkle is possible on a sunny day when there are flat ice crystals on the top of the snow’s surface, As the sun comes down and hits those ice crystals, they act like mirrors. So what you’re seeing is individual ice crystals that the sun is reflecting off of.
The usual white sparkle is caused by light reflecting off of the top of the ice crystals. But, when the light bounces off of the bottom surface of the crystal, color can be created. As you see in these two photos. Just amazing to me, this light that I see lifts my spirits and always brings a smile to my face.
Happy 1st of February, yes there is still lots of snow, but I wanted to start seeing some colors this month. Winter can be so long sometimes. It will be near 40 degrees this week, but then it will be back to -4 F a few days later.
So I will warm my thoughts with some colorful photos mixed in over the next couple of months.
By February I am thinking how nice it will be when the grass starts to grow, and that first lawn mowing when the grass smells so good.
But, every morning there are still icicles hanging around.
Winter Fun With a Partridge, I finally got some video of the illusive bird called the partridge. I have been trying to get a photo of it, but they fly away the minute it sees me. So I put the video camera by the bird seed and got a quick look at this beautiful bird.
He puffs himself up trying to look all big and bad and then runs off.
What Do You See, As you may notice, I don’t have one certain subject that I photograph. I take photographs in the moment, picking up a camera can actually make you see things completely different. Making me slow down and enjoy looking at something as simple as frost on the windows.
I took these photos yesterday morning when it was 3 degrees outside. I sat down at my dinning room table and went to look out the window and this is what I saw. I sat here in deep thought looking at this art work on the window, beautiful art work that made me feel warm, (mainly because I was on the inside), but this art is only here for a few seconds. Mesmerizing to me as it slowly disappears in the morning sun light.
We each have different desires, memories, personality types, and artistic preferences. These differences will drive our connection with various art-forms. Artists have no control over this, nor should they. We create work that moves us and inevitably, we hope this work will find other kindred spirits.
Remember, your photographs are capturing a moment in time. That will never be duplicated. Each one is a piece of art, creation, you and I.
When you clothe yourself with the Words of the Father, Your Beauty will shine from within.
The Ever Changing Beauty of Sunrises, these photos were all taken on the same morning as I watched the sunrise starting from blue hour, to golden hour and then last, sunrays reaching through the heavens.
Daryl Madden took some of my words from a previous post and made them into this beautiful poem. I would like to share them again here;
Something Strange in the Snow this morning when I went outside. I grabbed my camera and went to investigate. It is extremely cold to the touch and sparkling in the morning light, how did it get here? What is it?
It appears larger than life, it begins to dissolve in the center as the sun rays reach it on this cold January morning.
Did it fall from the night sky?
Nope, I left some water in the bottom of a bucket last night and it froze into this beautiful piece of ice, I picked it up and set it in the snow. I thought it looked pretty cool. Thinking outside of the box today.
Happy New Year 2021, and what a way to start this beautiful day. I looked out the window as the pink light was dancing across the sky. Snow covered trees and the moon up above.
Genesis tells you this, there is eternity in the Spirit. By the time your eyes open in the present the future has already become your past. When the moon is overhead a new day starts.
The sun came out today for the first time in many days, its rays were stretching out through the snow as I walked around enjoying the warmth of its light.
As I enter this new year on such a bright beautiful day, I pray for strength and peace for everyone. To stand strong in these trying times, to know and understand that we were created for a purpose.
Listen to your heart thoughts of you, knowledge is always stronger than wisdom. But they cannot exist without the other. One does not rule over the other, they are co-joined, separate but equal.
Such beauty from sunup to sundown, with the soft colors of the morning light, to the golden shadows as the sunsets to another day.
Life is a teaching experience we are either taught or we mimic back. Embrace Life
New Year’s Eve Firecracker Red, a little bright coloring for this new years eve day. 2020 is coming to an end. Who needs man made fire crackers when all we have to do is step out into nature and the brilliant colors surround us sometimes.
Red Squirrel With White Boots, I love it when a photo turns out to be something I wasn’t even expecting until you look at the photo later. When I took this photo today, I was only noticing the red fur down his back.
But when I looked at it closer, what a fun little surprise. It looks like he has white boots on his back feet, when it is at optical illusion. It is snow on the branch right in front of his foot.
Here he looks like he is just taking a break enjoying the view.
Summer Coat and Winter Coat, I finally saw a couple deer the other day. It is deer season so they have been hiding in the woods I think. The first photo was this past summer.
I have never taken a photo of a deer in winter, what a difference their fur coats are. In winter they look like they have a turtle neck sweater on with the patch of white under their chin.
They did not stick around long, they checked for some left over bird seed and then went on their way.
A Place I Always See a Sunset, Now when it comes to taking photos of sunrises or sunsets. The majority of them are Sunrises, because I am an early person and it seems to be easier for me to get up early than to stay up late.
But for some reason when I am down south, where the temperatures are warmer, I have no problem staying awake in the evenings. Especially in Florida.
These photos were taken last Christmas over by Cape Coral, Pine Island to be exact. I do love it down there in December.
I love looking at these photos when I am in the cold weather up north this time of year. Maybe next year I will get down there in December again.
Abstract Autumn Colors, now I know it is December and the season of snow. But I love looking at warmer colors also, this time of year. Can you guess what this is?
This is actually the side of my car, I parked next to some trees that were covered in colorful Autumn leaves a couple of months ago. I am just getting to these photos today. I loved the soft lines and the reflection of the leaves in the side of my car.
You can see the door handle on the photo below. Water isn’t the only thing where I find fun reflections of nature.
Golden Silk in Nature, I love the silks on Milk Weed plants in the fall. And seeing them at sunrise is even better. They take on a golden color as the sun is rising behind them. If you look close enough there is actually more colors, red and green show up as well from the sun rays in the silks. (video below).
This video shows the location of the sunrise where I took the photos above. The video is a little long, I had to use my You Tube footage to apply the video to my post. For some reason my shorter videos are not working as well.
December Brings Pink Skies, all day yesterday the clouds were dancing in the sky. They started out the most gorgeous pink. When you see pink sky’s in the morning this time of year, you have to get out there quickly for the pink disappears very fast.
Sunlight in December has a longer distance to travel through the sky before it reaches you. The colors that make it to your eyeballs are pinks and oranges and reds, because they are less likely to be scattered by the atmosphere. In turn, the morning sunlight fills the sky with a blaze of pinks and reds.
Mr. Ohh had a great idea yesterday. To take a picture everyday from the same spot, for a few days. To see the changes that take place during the sunrise. December is a great time to do this. I will post them after a collect some images. Thank you Mr. Ohh :).
The American Red Squirrel, We had a touch of blue sky’s today making for a colorful background for this little guys picture today.
The most noticeable characteristics of the American red squirrel are the tail and the eye ring. The tree squirrel’s tail is bushy and dark red with hints of a white outline. The eye ring is a thick, white circle around the rodent’s black eyes.
American red squirrels are about 12 inches and have grayish, red, or rust-colored fur with a white belly. Sometimes a black stripe can be seen on the sides.
Refresh, Regroup, Remember, I don’t know about you, but these last couple of days have been so relaxing. I hope they have been for everyone else as much as one can in these strange times we are living in.
Sometimes I need to take a break and just get lost in nature, physically and mentally. My husband and I have been doing that over the last couple of days. I don’t like to let life become a routine, that is when I change it up and turning off the internet is such a great way to do that.
And because of the Thanksgiving weekend, we had fun sharing memories of the past with each other, going for walks.
Back in the day there wasn’t any traveling for my family during the holidays. We just stayed home together and called others on the phone to say hi. Or wrote an actual letter on paper and sent it. What fun to remember and laugh. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
Good Morning this Thanksgiving Day, from the Light of the Morning Sun here in my corner of the world, to yours. I wish you all a wonderful day of thanks giving. May we all be blessed and may we always see His Light at the start of everyday.
For those who do not have Thanksgiving, I wish you a wonderful day and weekend as well.
