1st day -- A Quick Snow

At the urging of my sister-in-law, Mary, I am going to attempt to sustain a blog and to add pictures as often as I can. She has challenged me to follow in the footsteps of a blogger/photographer/educator in Washington state who adds a photo and comment every single day! ttp://thornburghphoto.blogspot.com/ I doubt I can keep up that ambitious pace, but I am going to stretch myself.

It was fun to go out today, a snowy Sunday afternoon at the end of a very busy week, and walk in the quiet of my small yard, looking at little vignettes of beauty and peace and deciding which ones to capture forever in pixel format. Just being outside alone seemed to calm my spirit more than I had anticipated.

Is there any greater natural force than weather? Weather does whatever it wants to do and is totally impartial in the doing of it. How people react to it makes all the difference.

I'm going to post two photos today, just because. I took the first one, and then I was disappointed that I had not noticed that I had cut off one point of the octagonal shape of the bird bath. So I went out forty-five minutes later and took the second shot. Snow does not take long to claim its own territory!

This bird bath is really special to me because I gave it to my parents several years ago to add a focal point in their already beautiful back yard. Mom especially paid a lot of attention to 'her' birds. She kept a small cup of pebbles near her chair on the patio so she could fling them at the neighbor's cats who crept up to pester the feathered bathers!