Down a snowy road....

This is from a couple years ago...though we may get a little bit more snow later in the week.  It is not supposed to amount to much.  I sure hope it doesn't...

Lorelei let her mom know she has really been missing us.   And wants to come down next weekend, but wants her mom to stay home.  That is a sure sign she has recovered fully from her surgery...she hasn't wanted to be ten feet from her mom in a long while.  With her being sick off and on and other things happening, it has been ages since she has been here.

Though she did tell me over the holidays that she is going to come when it is summer and spend four days with us.  Of course she told me what we were going to do those days...go to the park one day, go fishing at the creek another day, etc.  I told her so long as it don't rain.  She said we could change our mind then...

I can't wait for the weekend now....

An Eagle day!

We went for a little drive...up to Mansfield, Indiana...to throw our line in the water.  I spotted an eagle in the distance.  I pointed it out to Roger and we both seen it land in the tree.  The tree was across a field, and even with my camera lens extended I did not see the adult eagle on past the juvenile.  But Roger spotted it with his spotting scope.

We went on to Mansfield, which is just a few miles on down the road.  I was casting around, not getting any hits at all.  I thought to myself I best be watching for an eagle...they fly down the creek and fly up in this tree, and if you are not watching...you miss it and never know they are there.

Instead of that happening, I saw one up in the air...not this fellow.  The first one I saw was still too far for my feeble lens but was an adult...I whistled to get Roger's attention...we both headed to the truck and the adult landed in the tree. I could see it...and I thought I saw another one.  But could not be sure.

Roger got out his spotting scope and was looking...and he spotted another adult flying plus the one in the tree...and along in there here came this one flying over us!

Roger thinks we saw 5, well, he saw five if that is indeed the truth   (In all of this I only saw the one adult.)...I myself think it was the same juvenile and parent we saw earlier.  We had just missed seeing the other adult in the first sighting.

Kind of conflicting...

I think it is kind of strange...I really, really love B&W photography, so why don't I love the drab, dreary days of winter?  Instead, long before winter is over, I am longing for bright sun and vibrant colors.

I still enjoy snow...love the quite hush it puts on our world when it hits like it did last weekend.  I love how clean and fresh everything looks.

Yet when I ran across this picture, it just sang to me of shirtsleeve weather and fishing and eating breakfast outside on the porch and sitting in the swing to read....

It sang to me of garden fresh tomatoes and watching the flowers bloom....notes of Lorelei coming to visit slipped in there...how she likes to walk out to see the flowers in the summer and picks up pretty leaves in the fall.

It's a song I am ready to experience....