Sunday, May 31, 2009

Camera- Critters #60

It's Sunday and so that means it's Camera Critters.....Most of you know I am into birding and I have been photographing a lot of the birds which have been visiting my property as of late....here is a sampling of some of the birds.....

Tree Swallow
House Finch(Male)
This one I am not sure of....it has markings of a sparrow but also characteristics of a finch....any ideas?

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Happy Sunday to you all!

Monday, May 04, 2009

Heads or Tails Tuesday

The theme/prompt for today, May 5, is:

EDGE - "Any Past Theme"

Make any kind of post using any past theme! as your prompt. This is a good chance to do a theme you may have missed or just want to do again in a different way.

Well I think I would like to do mine on the week's theme "Down on the farm"

I have never lived on a farm....but growing up in a large family living in the city often we would get the question "why don't we live on a farm?" I never understood that as a child, but as I got older I realized people must have thought that with having so many children there would naturally be enough of us to help run a farm. I laugh at that. We were the farthest thing from being farmers. My mother was brought up having high tea on Sundays with little sandwiches and hence so were we. Digging horse manure or chicken poop was just not going to cut it.

Now many years later I still don't live on a farm...but I do live in the country in a beautiful area where I am surround by horses. The neighbours to the east of us have a couple of cows, and horses and I think chickens. That is about as close to farming as I am ever going to get.

Here's a lovely shot of one of the horses on the property across the road from us

Not really a farm animal but a frequent visitor to the property.

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