A Late Afternoon Snack or Dinner?

We have a couple of Bittern that frequent the pond near our house. They are of the Herron family but as you can see much smaller. I will be posting some of the other shots I took the other evening when I get to look at them more closely.



Out the Window...Mid-June Posting

Hot and humid as you can see from the foggy/haziness look. Oh, I forgot, rain too. We get well over 30 days of rain, a small break and it cools off. Air gets nice and dry, almost fall like weather. Then you get smacked in the face with the high humidity and heat. Actually it isn't all that hot but the wet air feels like it is extremely hot.

The left side of the first picture would almost line up with the right side of this picture.Notch in tree tops and the utility pole.

As you can see the sun is trying to peak through and this is suppose to burn off but I can tell you that since I didn't post this until now, 3 days later, that the sun never did appear.

June Monthly Posting

Wow, here we are almost halfway through the year and a little over halfway through my not so scientific look at how the sun and lighting goes from inside one window of my house. This is one of the few sunny days we have had on the first of the month. At least that is the way it seems. I am tempted to look back but I'm not going to until my little project is over. I do believe the harsh winter and never ending, at least it looked that way, has made for the thought of no sunny days. Actually during the winter months there were lots of sunny days, just cold and believe it or not.....snow. I didn't know blue sky could drop snow flakes.

June 1, 2011....@ 7:30 AM. Yesterday was August weather but today will be less humid and only 84.

Reflections of a New Addition to the Pond

Last year we had a Great Blue Heron and a White Heron join the ducks and geese that frequent our neighborhood pond. Late in the summer a Bittern showed up. I had to use a friend, Abe Lincoln his real name, help me with finding out what the bird was. He has tons of birds on his blog.

Well, this year we have had a few geese and only one set of baby ducks so far. There were eight but one now missing. There have been several Blue Herons but no White ones. One of the Blues has to have a five foot wing span. Interestingly there are not one but three Bitterns. Not sure if they is a pair amongst them or not. They are of the Heron family but they don't seem to wade out as much, they fish more from the bank.

Hail and Plants Don't Mix

We didn't get the worst of the storm and we definitely didn't get what Joplin and other communities have had to endure but never the less, we got hailed upon.

Hosta leaves are very vunerable.

The sky before it let go.

They were still getting it north west of us. This was maybe 30 minutes after the hail hit. The rains came during the hail but not like they did afterwards. The water in the pond was almost up to the pine trees and that two only took a few minutes to fill up.

This was emptied quickly when a piece of ice went through it. Also had a feeder bite the dust, replaced that today.






Had two tomatoes. One in a Topsy Turvy and the other in the ground. Wanted to see which one did the best. Covered the one in the ground but didn't get the bucket I put on it secured. Bucket ended up in the pond. Tomatoe plant was laid sideways and looked broken. Today it is standing with a few branches missing. The Topsy Turvy lid had one big hole for watering and now it has three but the tomatoe faired quite well.

Late Again With the Mid-Monthly Post

I started this endeavor back in November of last year. I haven't tallied up the days of sunshine but I do remember that November was sunny and the sun was coming up to the right in this picture. We are looking east. In actuality, it would be out of sight here, almost, unless I would pan back some. Now, it would be out of the picture to the left coming through the stand of pines surrounding an old farm. The field in this picture was part of it as well as the house I am in.

Hopefully the rains will come to an end soon but I will admit, everything is really green this year. Didn't get the flowers on the Pear trees or the Cherry trees like we normally do but the grass has grown and filled in the winter damage that everyone was dreading to have to fix. Now watch what happens, the faucet will be turned off and we will be begging for rain this summer.

Boothbay Harbor in Early Morning Light

What appeared to be a cloudy if not rainy day turned out to be quite the opposite. We went up the coast to Pemaquid Point Light House where it was windy, cold and rainy. We came back to a perfect fall afternoon of sun and warmth.