Three Days Into Winter

Here we are just a few days before Christmas and we still have snow on the ground. Things are looking good for the holidays. At least here in the mountains, that is.

Season's Greetings
This is a snow globe sitting in front of the tv lite by the sun coming in the window using a point and shot camera set on macro.

The next three photographs were shot down at our spring. You can see the same pattern in all the pictures.

Male Purple Finch

A Tufted Titmouse flies through the trees on the way to the feeders.

Wayne Feeds Sign hanging on a wall of a feed mill still in business in the historical area of Hollidaysburg, PA.

Several years ago I asked an antique dealer in Duncansville if I could play in his yard if I behaved myself. He gave me his permission and I've stopped almost every time I pass through town now and take a few pictures.

Head of an eagle.

Art is where you find it.

This old wooden wagon wheel was once a hanging lamp.

One of several buildings owned by David Donnellly filled with all kinds of things from the past.


Switcher used by the Everett Railroad Company.

With it's eye fixed on a sunflower feeder, a Sharp-shinned Hawk waits for a meal.

The distance between the Sharp-shinned Hawk and the feeder is 7 feet.

Tuesday was the first day of Winter and the shortest day of the year. It's all up hill from here.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a Prosperous New Year!

Snowy - Sunny - Cloudy

On top of Maggie Miller Hill looking south.

Old Miller Road on the way to the grocery store.

Old Miller Road on the way back from the grocery store.

Red white-faced steers in a pasture down the road from us.

Old barn at Buzzards Crossroads.
Depending upon which way you turn at this intersection you can go to Carrolltown, Patton, Hastings, or Route 36.

At the local butcher shop --

Going down the hill to the butcher shop.

This old apple tree still produces some fruit.

Hide house where the hides are salted and stored for curing.

If the butcher shop sat any lower it would be under water.

St. Bernard's Cemetery, Elder Township, Cambria County, PA.

Home Sweet Home.

Female Hairy Woodpecker heading towards the suet feeder.

Our one and only Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker stopped at the feeders on its way south for the winter. We seem to get one Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker and one Starling every winter.

Red-bellied Woodpecker leaves the suet feeder with a nice piece of food in its mouth.

Male Downy Woodpecker.

Mourning Dove coming in for a landing on the bird feeder.

I think this grey squirrel has such a long, bushy tail because it eats so well at the bird feeders.