Feeding Time

In recent days we have been overrun with these yellow finchs, there are a few purple finchs.
They come in swarms and eat until they are full.

Water Lily

This is one of the llilies that adorn my small fish ponds. They help to shade the pond to keep algea from growning and clouding the water.

Grand Entry

Picture number 1 is the grand entry to began the dancing and introduction of the many classes and styles.

Yellow Boy

This is what I see through the storm door when it is feeding time. He is always hungry and eats very well. He is a very laid back cat and loves for you to scratch under his chin and his stomach.

Continuation of Powwow Photos

Jingle dancers and grassland dancers as I remember what they were called. Beautiful colors.

More Powwow 2008

The young children seem to really get into the dances and do a very good job. More photos later.

Baby Sister Hiding

DW let Baby Sister out in the yard and she hid in the azalea bush, she thinks that we cant see her. As we walked by she was real still and would not even move when we called her name.

Powwow 2008

These are the beginning of many photos of the annual Powwow held each year at the Haliwa-Saponi tribal grounds. Their dance gear are made of many beautiful colors and the beadwork is fabulous. Someone has spent many an hour doing the bead work. More to follow.

Soccer Match

This was one of the many photos that I took at a soccer match between Northern Vance Highschool and Southern Vance Highschool. Northern won the match 4 to 1.

Baby Sister Waiting

Baby sister was watching me in the front yard, giving me a sad look so I would feel sorry for her and let her out for one of her many inspection tours of our yard.

Gathering Nectar

Found out that this is a Snowberry Clearwing Moth (Hemaris diffinis). It was very busy and really did not like me sticking a camera lens in it's face. Had to work hard to get this photo, it was so quick.

Butterfly

This is the first butterfly that I have seen this spring, it just showed up and began feeding on our flowers and blooming plants. One of natures beautiful insects.

Wisteria and Tulip Flower

The photo of the wisteria was taken on the road to my house, it has been growing out of control for several years now. As you can see it has taken over the trees and undergrowth. This plant can be cut back regularly when it is growing and turned into a tree. It requires constant care each year to keep it from running wild.

The tulip plant was photographed in our local cemetery. The whole cemetery looks beautiful at this time of year with the green grass and all of the plants in bloom. More photos later.

Twin Wrens

It is not very often that you get the chance to photograph two wrens together, due to them being so hyper active. They are a curosity to watch and they build their nests in very strange places, like tools hanging on walls, in old buckets and even your air hose to your compressor if it is not used very often. Last year I had one build a nest in one of my big lawn mowers and DW would not let me use the mower until the babies hatched and moved out. I'm glad we found it before I started the mower.

Cosmo

This is a cat that was found at the local dumpsters and when I talked with friends Sue and Gerry they decided that they would like to adopt this cat for their antique store. They decided to name him "Cosmo" and he got the attention of all that became exposed to him. Sorry to say Sue and Gerry moved to Cleveland for a better job. Needless to say we all miss then both very much and also Cosmo. From communicating with Sue and Gerry it appears that Cosmo has adapted very well to his new home.

Gold Fish

These are some of the fish in one of our three fish ponds. The large one in the middle is gold with black edges on his scales. He was about six inches long when I bought him, and now he is about twelve to fourteen inches long. We have to Black Moors in this pond, but you can not see them unless they swim over the light colored part of the bottom of the pool.

Chowing Down

This little squirrel is so busy eating the sunflower seeds that he paid little attention to me taking his photo. We have several squirrels that frequent our feeders and they are very funny when they get to chasing each other away from the feeders.

Baby Sister

This is our indoor cat named Baby Sister. She appears to be mad at something and looks like she is going to growl at something or someone. She loves to go outdoors, doesn't matter if it is raining or whatever. We did not let her go out for many years, but now she gets to go out several times a day to eat grass.

Hummer Nest

While checking out my mowers to get ready for the mowing season, I found this little nest on the ground in front of my mower shed. Evidently the limb that it was attached to had fallen off the tree and the nest was attached to the limb. When it hit the ground the little nest fell off and was near this limb. I think that it is a humming bird nest. We have found one other and it was very similar to this one.