For yesterday’s photo of the day, I had a variety to choose from, as, after church, Ray and I took a walk on our “Boneyard Beach”. It was a crystal clear day – though a little cool. I couldn’t figure out what to wear to be comfortable. In retrospect, my new fleece vest would have been perfect, as my fleece jacket was too much.
I traveled with only my 100-400 lens on my camera – determined to find and photograph some wildlife, and there was … some. Yesterday’s photo of the day is the elusive sand piper! They are so quick, and skittish around humans, making them difficult (for me) to photograph. There were groups of them in the water – and groups of them flying in chorus, but here is one that posed for me for a “milli” second – long enough to get this shot! *g*
365 photo #29
And — because I photographed so much more – here are a few bonus photos: (see larger by clicking them)
1. Great Blue Heron – on an oyster bed … fishing
2. These shells are everywhere on the beach
1. Mitchellville entrance to the beach — that’s Ray in the red
2. sea gulls – galore!
Today’s photo of the day is – again – the wiry squirrel, taken right out of our back sliding glass door. We have so many squirrels, that I suspect there will be many who will make the 365 photo project. This little guy stayed in this position on the tree for quite some time — long enough for me to run to the bedroom – grab my SD card (which was in my computer), put it in my camera, change the lens to the 100-400 mm and go back to snap this photo, and several more! Ray wondered if he was “sunning” himself – kind of like we humans like to sunbathe on the beach!
365 photo #30
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What a beautiful blue in the photo of the sandpiper. Blue water, blue beach. Really pretty. I always think of yellow (sunshine) as my favorite color, but I adore blue skies, so maybe that is really my favorite color.
As for your sunbathing squirrel, he probably is doing just that. Maggie loves to sunbathe. The hardest adjustment for her moving from Florida to Pennsylvania, was discovering that sunshine doesn’t always mean warm weather. She would tap at the door begging to go out and lay in the sun when it was twenty degrees out. When I’d open the door she’d sniff and then back up. She has learned to lay in the sun on the rug BY the door!
The sky WAS a very clear blue on Sunday afternoon. In fact, when I looked at the photos at first, I wondered whether the camera recorded it accurately — especially the ones with the sandpiper in it. But – as I looked at the other photos that I didn’t question, I realized that it really *was* that blue. I love days that have no haze – and Sunday was like that. So was today, for that matter!
That is kind of funny how a “Florida dog” learns to be a “Pennsylvania dog” – at least when it comes to judging the warmth of sunshine!