Bringing Katya home giveaway

Go to these blogs to see how you can help with adoption expenses for Katya.

The Bringing Katya home blog is here.

There's a giveaway for this quilt here.

Robins in winter

A good many years ago, a naturalist told us that robins flock together in the winter and that they migrate only regionally, so it may be that the Kentucky robins come to Ohio for the winter?  Also seeing a robin in February doesn't necessarily mean that spring is coming. Last Sunday I saw a lone robin and thought about the naturalist's information.  This last week was particularly wintry. Then on Thursday I saw the flock. I counted twelve or thirteen of them in the tree out front.




I really like that this picture came out well.  Often using digital zoom makes a picture grainy.  This one even looks good on the big computer screen.


How many do you see this tree?




I love watching birds in winter!

Mr. Squirrel day two

Mr. Squirrel was very nervous looking the first time we saw him. The next day, not so.
He must have seen me because he was totally still for a while.


Then he relaxed and enjoyed his meal.

Foto Friday--Hands

This week's photo challenge was "HANDS". Besides fabric, we've got an abundance of dolls in our family. In fact, we have way more dolls than people. As I gave the challenge some thought I knew that the dolls would play a part somehow. I had an idea based on a picture my daughter took. Her picture is here.

So I started with something similar. It was ok, but not exactly great.


I then moved the six dolls to the stairs, opened the front door for good light and took the shots from the side. I took quite a few and narrowed them down to these. They've each got a slightly different focus and I rearranged the girls for the last one. I couldn't decide which one I liked best, so you get them all.






Visit Rebecca to see other photos.

Valentine creativity

Here's a peek at what Amy captured for Valentine's Day (it was actually five days after Valentine's Day that she set this up, but who's counting?)



Go to her blog to see more. By the way, she used my Emily and Anna in her shots. :)

He's back

Although "he" might be a "she".











He was all over the place and a short amount of time. He seemed pretty skittish. Amy was able to get some pretty pictures, don't you think?

Winter Revisited

The morning after:


It took DH and hour and a half to get home from work yesterday afternoon and the same to get there this morning. God kept him safe and not stuck in his car for five hours like some others had to endure. He left work at 3:15. Normally, he would have left closer to 6:00. If he'd done that he could have been stuck like all the others. We are grateful.