Four Weeks Until Spring

Another beautiful sunrise in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.

I saw this sign and took the road anyway.  It wasn't all that bad.  Everyone needs a little bit of adventure in their life.

I stopped by my friend Ed's pond on the way to the grocery store.  In the fall I like to use this venue for doing senior portraits.

Same road trip, another pond.  This one is along Old Miller Road.

Snow covered trees on the edge of the yard.

Another picture of the garden shed.  It looks kinda small sitting among the trees.

Two of about twenty doves that were hanging out near the bird feeders.

Abandoned farm in Susquehanna Township.  I pass by this on my long, out of the way trips to the grocery store.

One of my favorite places to shoot is a junk yard along Double Dam Road in Northern Cambria.

Red-bellied Woodpecker just about to take off from the suet feeder.  If you look closely you can see that its feet are still hanging onto the feeder.

Storm damage.

Following the PennDOT salt truck into Emeigh on our way to Clymer, PA in Indiana County.

If you are looking for something to do this weekend that is educational and doesn't cost any money, it's not too late to sign-up for the Great Backyard Bird Count.  For more information go to birdsource.org

Hanging Around Hastings, PA

With the cold weather and winter storms I haven't roamed far from home in the last week or so. But there are plenty of things to shoot around here, including more deer in the back yard.

Finally we had a little bit of sun and I decided to get out and shoot some new pictures from around town. The biggest building in town is St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church. The blondish looking building to the rear and right of the church was once St. Bernard's Elementary School.

Hastings Borough Community Park.

Once again looking over the town of Hastings, PA with the windmills in the distance. This time the sky is blue instead of a dreary gray.

A view of Hastings shooting from Tower Road.

I've been waiting for a really nice day to get out and shoot the new windmills with a snowy background. I plan to continue to take these shots so I can see how the windmills look as the seasons change.

The blue sky and snow covered fields with the windmills jutting above the tree tops makes for a nice photographic composition.

After shooting the last photograph, I went to the corner of Baker's Crossroads and Sunset Road and turned left to get this shot of the previous windmill from behind.

As I was composing this photograph I couldn't help but to be amused by how small the two pickup trucks look parked next to this wind generator.

Even though there is a windmill that can be seen from this view of St. Joseph's Church, I was able to keep it out of the viewfinder so that it didn't ruin the picture of the church.

The next three pictures show a pair of twin yearling bucks who are no longer traveling with their mother.

Lonesome tree on the edge of a field, next to a pond, along School Bus Road.

Male Red-Bellied Woodpecker.

Female Red-Bellied Woodpecker.

Keeping Track of All of Our Deer Friends