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...more pigeons. :)

around Saint Jakob hill

Baby heavy checks out how her house held up in the blizzard

This is a view to the south-southwest of State Beach, adjacent to the seaport town of Trinidad, California.

.....just before the sky let loose with more rain....

Buried in Arnold!

who put this hole here?

This is what the day after Snowmaggedon looks like in my neighborhood.

Sun Feb 7, 2010. West Chester, PA Grandson Baron playing in 28" of snow.

What a cool sunrise with streaming rays!

every day from dusk till dawn the can man searches for cans for cash to help him survive.

The 'Ballet Of Light', formally known as artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's art project Vectorial Elevation, consists of 20 robotically controlled, 10,000-watt Zenon lights that have been installed at Vanier Park and Sunset Beach in Vancouver. Beginning on February 5, they will be lighting the sky over English Bay every night until dawn, right up to the last day of the 2010 Winter Olympics on February 28. The pattern of the lights changes every 10 seconds in response to geometric designs submitted from the public via the Internet. It is quite a sight but works best with low clouds like this evening. View with the Inukshuk at the southern end of English Bay Beach.

NEOhio is getting another 6-10 inches of snow. I decided to take advantage and shoot some pictures playing off the exiting daylight.

Great day for shooting blue sky and white clouds

Its what farm boys do. Non HDR.

The clouds looked so defined in Black and White

Two inches deep in ice an oak leaf is covered by a single layer of tiny bubbles, seemingly sorted by size and arranged with geometric precision. You can just see the smallest bubbles continue under the blurry surface ones, covering the rest of the leaf. This is all above previous continuous ice, so it wasn't influenced from below. What an amazing world this is

Yesterday's sunrise. This is my first time to see an actual sun pillar develop. It appeared and disappeared in a span of less than five minutes!

Currently bare, the leaves will return in spring

And away he goes, off to sample another flower. 1/1000 sec ISO 500 High speed shooting mode.

The male redwing blackbirds have arrived in Northern Illinois and are staking out territories that they hope will be satisfactory for the females when they arrive in a week or so. This guy, bouncing around in the breeze between this mornings T/Storms and showers probably wishes he had come north just a little later this year.

Wintery wonder land No ice though, water is still to warm.

Taken with the Nikor70-200mmVRII lens with the l.7 converter.

The sun dogs did just what they are named for.... they dogged the sun most of the afternoon. At a certain time in the afternoon the sun was encircled with the dogs still at large.

The advisory didn't lie. This morning around 10:30 I was out there shooting :) I think I stayed at the beach until around 4:30!! Egads! What a long day.....

Sunset with a light snow falling and the most intense Sun Pillar I've ever seen coming down from the Sun. It was quite a sight! Taken from the overlook near Cripple Creek, CO.

I think we were both surprised.

I hope you all aren't getting tired of seeing snowflakes. I've still got a few more.

What a sunrise for those who ventured out. A real reward for getting your coat on.

Peregrin Falcon The Opera Singer !!

I thought I'd go to East Head for sunset,went through snow shower on way, took me brolly, and as always when I do, the weather went around us,two snow showers seperated by sunset at sea. HDR image created from 14 seperate exposures from the original exposure of 6 seconds. I love walking these sands at low tide, and at this time of year all alone, Bliss!!!,cold ,and wet,who cares.

The snow on the roof shows which side faces north!

This gator was laying across a log that is normally occupied by turtles. This turtle was simply laying claim to his favorite spot.

under the snow

Northern lights and startrails from Deer Mountain. Captured and stacked several photos from about 4:35am until the sky became too light. Have another version of the photo with more morning light but unfortunately the aurora gets washed out.

Sunset time in upper Styria....

The African Daisies are having a good time with our early Spring.

3 strikes of lightning hit over the Santa Monica and Malibu Mts. Image taken from Manhattan Beach, CA.

I Shot this at Whitmore. This is the Grand Canyon South of St. George, Utah.

Cape Disappointment Light House on the North shore of the Columbia River at the Pacific ocean.

Jogger enjoys a view on thier morning run along the Astoria River walk. The begining of a brilliant day. 7am this morning.

This was this morning at about 7 am PST.

Peaks of Otter, Flat Top trail from Blue Ridge Parkway

Red Maids or Desert Maids (calandrinia ciliata) is another one that makes a short appearance, gone as the late spring heat comes.

Moonstone Beach is beyond the point of rocks, and the outflow of the Little River just beyond.

A world between the rainy morning and the glorious late afternoon! Grimaud standing on the hill has nothing to do with my flooded valley 6 miles West

This Burrowing Owl seems fearless.

This tree is well over 50 years old and towers above our house! With many hundreds of flowers, it definitely makes a statement this time of year!

Lake Del Valle Area, California

Kestrel In Flight!! Rainy and cloudy day and a fast Small Falcon in flight =