Archive for the 'Nature Scenes' Category

22 Oct

I was out on our deck in the evening a couple of nights ago…the lake was still, there was no breeze, and there were no geese, turtles or muskrats swimming across the lake to disturb the water, so it made a beautiful mirror. The colors are coming out on the trees, in fact in the [...]

13 Sep

The nights are getting cooler, and the days shorter.  There is a touch of color on some of the trees, just a hint, making the tops look like paint brushes of orange and red.  I went out and purchased some plants today in preparation for the fall season…a few huge, beautiful Mums and a few [...]

29 Aug

(Update 9/3/08 – I received my bird feeder from birdfeeder.com today, it’s a “hopper” type feeder, a lot like the one I used before the feeder you see in my video, but the quality is much better! I especially like the fact that it has a tray to catch the seeds that would fall on [...]

05 Jun

Last week my husband and I took some time away at the Jersey Shore. The weather was cool, but beautiful; the beaches were quiet, and the prices were right at the motels, they went up $30 a night this week. One day we went to visit the lighthouse at Barnegat Bay, “Old Barney”. They have [...]

03 May

It was a rare treat to have this visitor at our bird feeder today, very rare! But spring is in the air and we have had more uncommon visitors as the birds migrate, and also we live in a very wooded area of New Jersey. With all the development, it’s wonderful to live where a [...]