Nature Pics

Post by **TheTennisBallKid** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:14 am

Hail stones the size of golf balls fell today.

There has been one fatality reported:

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Post by **Primula Baggins** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:36 am

How tragic!

Post by **TheTennisBallKid** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:15 am

Moving on from the sensational weather reports of dubious origin . . .

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Post by **cemthinae** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:54 am

I got lost yesterday... in the snow... and in my thoughts... this is what I saw along the way:

Post by **Griffon64** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:04 am

Snow pics always look so much more awesome in black and white.

But that gives us non-snowy-climes people totally the wrong idea. We think it goes black and white when it snows

Post by **Old_Tom_Bombadil** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:13 am

TheTennisBallKid wrote:There has been one fatality reported:

Harry!...Harry Potter! He can't be...dead!

Post by **Rowanberry** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:09 pm

LOL at the golf ball sized hail stones.

If they'd been real, it would have been quite a hailstorm.

Great photos again from both TTBK and Cem, especially this one and this one.

Post by **TheTennisBallKid** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:59 pm

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Post by **elfshadow** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:52 am

Missed this before, ttbk, but I love this one.

It looks as though it should be a photograph of two palm trees in the sand--and then you take a closer look and realize that it's snow! Very cool.

Post by **truehobbit** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:17 pm

about the golf-balls and Harry Potter! (Let's not give J.K. Rowling ideas, ok?

)

Looooovely snow pics!

We've had our first frosty spell this year in the past few days, and yesterday actually had one centimeter of snow.
Today it's not quite so cold, fortunately.
(Though some snow from now till tomorrow would be ok - it's the weekend, so the traffic wouldn't suffer, and I wouldn't mind a walk in some snow. However, I can do without frost - wearing all those layers of clothes is annoying.)

Post by **TheTennisBallKid** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:07 pm

Larger

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Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:44 pm

We had some visitors in our yard today.

Post by **cemthinae** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:31 am

Post by **Griffon64** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:54 am

Oooooh, V, that's so cool!

Do you often get such visitors?

Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:02 am

We do, Griffy. Pretty often.

cem, great stuff as always. Particularly the first one.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:41 am

They're definitely great, but I have to confess that I'm partial to the second one.

Voronwë, you have wonderful visitors. Do they devour your vegetation the way the ones around here do? They are so beautiful, but also such a challenge to a gardener! I know people who've finally simply enclosed their vegetable gardens in a cube of wire fencing—there was no other way. If they built a twelve-foot fence, sometimes a deer would somehow get over and then be trapped (and, of course, eat everything in sight). So a twelve-foot fence with a roof was the only answer.

Post by **cemthinae** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:16 pm

I am partial too...

Which is why I posted it.

I've found a new place to wander here in winter and it has afforded some great views. Emmy and I did come across some deer the other day. I'm sure the pictures I took with the SLR and zoom will be nice, but my digital doesn't have zoom.... so this is what I got:

And, just because, here is a picture of Emmy threatening to throw Wilson in the snowbank, all because he was receiving more attention than she:

Post by **TheTennisBallKid** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:27 am

Lucky Wilson....

Voronwë, I remember you talking about the deer before; nice to see them.

We have had a regular blizzard this weekend, so I've spent most of my time inside reading about global warming.

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Post by **truehobbit** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:52 pm

It looks like summer in those pics, Voronwë!

It's not freezing here, but it's so grey the colours outside are very much like in ttbk's pics.

Post by **Griffon64** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:04 pm

ttbk - this summer, when it constantly hit 100+ F for two whole weeks here in Bakersfield, and wasn't much cooler for the remainder of summer, *I* started reading about global warming