pic of the day

I knew today was 1/11/11 but hadn't thought about the time...until I just happened to be in the kitchen and looked at the oven clock..to mark down the time I was taking some medication..and there it was 11:11 - so had to quick take the picture before it became 11:12 - Wish I could have remembered to take the picture at 01:11
But I still get a chance to catch the time 11:11 ...on 11/11/11
I totally forgot last year on 10/10/10...and next year it'll be time to wait for clock to strike 12:12 on 12/12/12 ;-)

pic of the day

Wonder if this Stork in my yard is resting from a Delivery in the neighborhood or waiting on a pickup call.

Pic of the day...the process of De-decorating

All the ornaments ready to get packed up, in the boxes I have stacked in the front bedroom. I don't know if that's a word or not..but I'm not de-cluttering, I'm just taking away the nice Christmas decor that I had so carefully put up just a few short weeks ago :-( and packing it back into the boxes. I really have sooooooooo much holiday decor that I could if I want too, put all different stuff out next year. But I still have to sort through it and decide what I really really want to keep. Figure the snow themed things will stay with me ....Snow, its just such a part of me, growing up in Buffalo, and my nickname for Paul was "my snowman" ;-) Well, time to get back to my de-decorating.

Think maybe I'll leave the tree up one more night and enjoy the lights

Pic of the day Green,Gray,Red

My grandson and I enjoyed watching the sandhill crane couple walking by this morning in my yard. Usually they are around almost daily, but I hadn't seen them since a couple days before Christmas - I must have a couple hundred photos of them already....but thought that this pic was especially nice with the gray of the trees, their feathers, the green foliage and their red heads...kinda Christmasy and all ;-)

Excerpt quoted from National Geographic

Sandhills are the most common of all the world's cranes. A fossil from the Miocene Epoch, some ten million years ago, was found to be structurally the same as the modern sandhill crane. Today, these large birds are found predominately in North America. They range south to Mexico and Cuba, and as far west as Siberia.

Read more at: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/sandhill-crane/