Blizzard 2013

Hamden had the honor of being "the bulleye" for Nemo, the Blizzard of 2013 -- we had 40 inches of snow!

I like this image below for perspective, Buddy is our 100 pound Golden Retriever...

We saw a plow on our Street Friday evening, then we did not see one again until the following Friday! A neighbor's grandson did come Monday with his small pickup truck and he made a path down our street.

The weather after the blizzard was actually quite nice, sunny, not too cold. A lot of snow melted, these icicles were from water dropping from above...

And an artistic (Fractalius) version of the image above...

one last piece of snow resisting the wind...

I made sure to clear a path to the birds feeders while Tom was digging us out in the front. As I was putting the bird feeders back up I noticed a feather at my feet. 

An artistic rendition of the feather above...

First Snow

We had our first SNOW on Sunday. Luckily I got the outside lights all out and up on Friday and Tom got the snowglobes out Saturday. I woke up Sunday am and took a slow walk around the yard with my camera. Here are a few photographs from my backyard journey...



Home tweet home...


I love the snow on all of my yard knick-knacks...my reflection appears in this caterpillar, good thing I put my coat on and not my bathrobe like I was tempted to


Butterfly antennae in the snow.


I saved this tree three times when Tom and Adam went out "yard trimming"

I love my GBH's even in the snow.

These grasses look soooo different today from yesterday (fluffy and billowy)

The last of Fall, even though it's not officially winter yet.

The snow on this stone looked like a smilie face to me.

cold birdie

You can see my reflection in this dragonfly's eye.

And last but not least my cat planter that did not yet get put away, looks like he has a milk mustache...

White throated sparrows in the snow

We have lots of white-throated sparrows that visit our backyard. As you read earlier, I had a lot of fun photographing the birds this morning in the snowstorm.

Enjoy these five white-throated sparrow photographs.

The background on this bird was very bright and almost looked "hi-key" so I made this one into a Black and White photograph.

Snowy Friday Backyard Birds

If you remember I was very envious that Tom got to photograph our birds in the backyard on each of days for the President's birthdays. Well today...Hehe...while Tom was using the snow blower this morning I was using his 300mm f2.8 lens on the deck. I just love these photos with the snowflakes coming down! Here are photos that I took today in the snow...



This little downey woodpecker landed so close to me I almost was too close to focus (I had to lean back a little)

I was playing around with this image in photoshop and came up with the Black and White and Red.
I apply this affect a lot for our brides and I am always silently ecstatic when I get to a Bride's house and see color in her bouqet. I know that white flowers with her white dress is always classic but I miss the opportunity to be able to apply this selected color technique.


This Tufted Titmouse just posed for me.

Tom put our Christmas tree out back when we took it down so that we could use it for our photos. The entrie time that I was outside only this one bird landed on it (it was very close to me and there was no food near it) but I just love the little gal (female Junco) on the evergreen with the snow.


4 photos of male Juncos

Another female junco