A Day Off

 I will be off from blogging here on Thursday. We are taking a friend to the hospital in a nearby city for surgery. We will need to get up around 4:30! So we will likely be taking a long nap when we get home.

Crowded Real Estate

 Here they come in the dusk, all headed for power lines and transformers.

Ever wonder why birds on power lines all face the same direction?

I copied this from various websites.

"Birds experience less wind resistance when they fly into the wind. The same goes for when they sit on power lines: they are all facing into the wind in order to reduce wind resistance. If they were instead facing the opposite direction, their feathers would be fluttering all over the place.  It's also easier to communicate."

Tiny Snow Houses

 We saw these tiny snow houses at a Botanical Garden winter festival a few years ago. They are only a few inches big.

These are on the way to the Botanical Garden, and more than a few inches long. The Blue Ridge Mountains are in the background; we live at the foot of them.

And who do you think is the father of rain and dew, the mother of ice and frost? You don’t for a minute imagine these marvels of weather just happen, do you?

Job 38

Sunday Sunset

 

Of Cabbages & Kings

 I love the decorative cold weather cabbages. I am assuming they are not edible? Anyway, here are some favorites that I snapped, both with and without effects.

The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.

 ~Mark Twain

The Gingerbread Window

 This is the window of our local toy store, "Pufferbellies".

They have made a scene of the downtown buildings all out of gingerbread! Here is the church.

I don't know how they made these spectacular mini stained-glass windows!

Here is another building.

With a Hershey's Kiss turret.

And a tiny storefront window, which is inside a store window.

·                  Why was the Gingerbread Man robbed?
Because of his dough.

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·                  Why did the Gingerbread Man go to the school nurse?
He was feeling crumby.

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·                  What does the gingerbread man sleep on?
Cookie sheets.

A Senior Moment

 I am back, and have missed all of you! Thank you all so much for your wonderful and caring comments! I finished my anti-viral medicine, and am feeling better! The doctor says it may be a few months till I am totally back to normal, but this is close enough for me!

I found these photos in my computer folder, and have no idea WHY I was going to post them! What a senior moment! The meds caused brain fog, so maybe there is hope for me yet. I think they might have been from a World Wildlife calendar I had.

I am considerably older then middle aged, so I guess these things apply to me even more.