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Tip toe thru my tulips - and more '08

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Sheriff Roland:
Haven't been posting in here this year, mostly cause the flowers came in later than last year, but also because they were less impressive (some never even made a show at all), and of course, I did damage the viewer on my camera during the Alberta Pilgrimage last year, and I don't see as clearly what my picture looks like when I take it.

However ...

I was away during the end of July last year (Alberta Pilgrimage) so there are a few flowers that didn't get their due showing in the "My Great White North".

Took a few pics this morning (and earlier last week) and I thought I'd share.

Sheriff Roland:
Last week I finally got a good picture of the yellow bird.

Took a few of em through the screened window last year but they weren't worth sharing.

First the story.

I had never seen these yellow bird in the wild until about 4 years ago. Saw one (some?) while walking along an old railway track and thought he must be canary out of his cage ... His sing-song's dif'rent from the common wild bird.

Anywho, a couple a years ago, the sunflowers multiplied like crazy from a bunch of seeds I had planted the previous year.

And they started coming. They are much more flighty than the common little bird, so getting close to em is not easy. And even getting up to get the camera will scare them away for the rest of the day.

However ...  ;D

Sheriff Roland:
H's a cropped up copy of another picture I took that same day.

I'm about 15 feet away from him.

Brown Eyes:

That's really lovely Roland!  I love that you were able to get a shot of that yellow bird with the yellow flowers!
8)

Sheriff Roland:
Here's a shot of the area I took the pictures from

It's my little nook in the front yard ... from which I can see people walking by (and those yellow birds, amongst others), and until about 11:00 am, I'm able to read outside shaded in the cool of the morning surrounded by my front yard's garden.


As soon as I had taken the pictures this morning, it started raining (yet again). And hard. We are definitively having record rainfall this July. (we were a single mm away from the recond last week.)

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