Red-shouldered Hawks of Tingsgrove and Beyond: Queen Elizabeth ll

Friday, April 24, 2015

Sure Signs of Spring~

The image from above ;)

My husby saw it on the screensaver of the desktop computer, and said.

What is this, it is really neat, but I can't figure it out?

Well...it is a little something that I created.

I took 2 images of the same tree, down the lane. I turned one image upside down, superimposed them and then did an invert of colour and there you have it.

It was just something to do, on a very rainy Spring day. We have had so much rain, too much rain, and yet it is bringing out the colours of Spring, and so we do not complain, too much. Yet sadly our front yard, it is a changing. The Winter was cruel and one of my beloved Holly trees, along with a few evergreen bushes that adorn the frontage of our home, are now missing in action. I planted the Holly tree some 30 years ago and that has left a large empty spot, but I shall find something to fill in the void, one day very soon.

I hope that wherever you are, you are enjoying your day and that you are doing well. Have a very Happy Week, filled with love and blessings, oh and get a little creative if you get bored~

Remember to double click on the first image, to view a larger slide show presentation after you have read the narratives~

I will be linking up with Judith for:

www.lavendercottagegardening.com

Mosaic Monday

Stewart for:

http://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com.au/

Wild Bird Wednesday

Tulips, so cheerful, for such a brief time they show their faces, yet I am thrilled to see them once again~

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker...one of my favorites. Well, even though they were the start of what happened to my beautiful Holly tree. They make little tiny holes, all in neat little rows on the trunk of tree and then sip the sweetness. There may be many rows like this all around the tree trunk. Then you have open wounds and disease can get in and then a harsh Winter zaps the tree and it is over, before you realized it ever even happened~

I have a single Quince, and I need to find a few more, as they are quite lovely~

~Smile~

Husby and I were out driving with our dogs last week and came upon this old home and I had to take a quick snap ;)

They may be pink, but they are called Red Dogwoods, above.

Our home, taken from across the lane with wild Redbud trees in bloom, yep they are called red, but they are pink~

Bleeding Hearts, an old favorite, that takes me back to memories of visiting my great Aunt Bunna, who was the closest person to a grandmother, that I ever had. She had these as well as white ones in her garden~

Some of our many Spring Beauties and Wild Phlox~

Poppy, for you too ;)

A pair Blue Jays have decided to build a nest in the ivy that caresses our Oak tree. This is right outside our front door and we are very excited. They are one species that you cannot tell the female from the male, unless this time of year, if you happen to see on a female a few feathers plucked from her chest area...then you will know~

Double bloom Daffodils~

Horse country, a few miles from home, the male turkeys were strutting their stuff for the hens, just as the sun was rising high above~

A Red-tailed Hawk perched high, watching over it's nest. I am going to find that nest soon too~

I drove to the north side of our county and another Red-tailed Hawk soared over Hermitage Farms shown below. I have shared this farm before. Queen Elizabeth has visited it a couple of times in the past~

I took these 2 images approximately 20 some years ago.
The lead cars had high ranking officials, as well as people taking photographs of we 16 people fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time.

And then there she was. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll, and she waved at us. Can you see her?