Pond on a Cold Morning

Jan22

Don’t you just love these ice crystals growing between logs in the pond? Crystals are endlessly fascinating, whether these common but evanescent* ice crystals or the incredibly huge, unimaginably ancient gypsum crystals in the Mexican Cueva de los Cristales: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/photogalleries/giant-crystals-cave/ *Evanescent – Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing. Oh, how I love finding the perfect word, one that expresses exactly what I wanted to say as economically as possible! 🙂

Pond Crystals

Hmm, ice crystals grow relatively quickly at temperatures of around 32 degrees F, while the gypsum crystals formed incredibly slowly (over millennia) at around 136 degrees F.

Getting Ready to Transport Grass

Jan21

The horses eat grass. Lots of grass. Since we are in the midst of a drought and the horses have long since eaten all the grass we had available on the part of our 40 acres dedicated to pasture, that means we must purchase grass and transport it back to the horses. I sure am glad someone cut it, dried it, and rolled it up into these big, relatively easy to handle bales!

Do you think he could have ridden home balanced up here?

Bridger leapt up on top of this five foot diameter roll of grass as soon as it was loaded on our trailer. How could he have resisted?

Ice

Jan21

Evidence:

Ice melting in the dry grass

2012 has seen some days below freezing in NE Oklahoma!

Junk in Our Woods

Jan19

Sometimes the sun lights up just junk. Is it really the treasure the sunlight implies?

Corvair - Junk to Me, Treasure to Bridger

The Star

Jan18

The spotlight is on these simple leaves, the star in today’s production of Nature :o)

Simple and stunning. Makes my heart sing.

Following the Sun

Jan17

On certain days the bright, golden quality of the sunlight draws me irresistibly outside, camera in hand.

What the sunlight revealed

Then I roam our 40 acres, following the sun beams. I try to capture some of that beauty to share with others who are not able to explore the natural world.