From the Patio....

Today I'm showing a few of the

interesting things I see from my patio.

This groundhog was seen in my neighbor's 

yard.  He stood as still as a statue for

the longest time.  

I tried to get a better shot, but he took off to the Back 6 

so I only captured a part of him.  Someone asked me 

recently what kind of camera I had to get the closeup 

shots.  It's a Canon PowerShot SX 30 IS.  It has a 

35X wide-angle zoom, which is what sold me on this 

particular camera.  It's called a point and shoot 

camera, but it's bigger and heavier than what I've

 had before in a point and shoot.  I like it very much, 

especially as I can zoom in on things that are quite 

a distance away without having a camera that

 requires separate lenses to carry around.  

I still have a lot to learn with it.

This plane is at least 6 miles up.  I think the

flight pattern between Kansas City and St. Louis

must go over our house.  When hubby got home

from work, we both sat on the patio and noted 

that in the space of a few minutes we had seen

5 or 6 go overhead in one direction or another. 

Of course, we noticed this since I had the camera

in hand and was trying to zoom in for a decent shot.

I took another shot of the scene of the crime yesterday.  If 

you didn't see my post Wednesday, I showed a black snake

 slithering up to the Bluebird's house and getting the babies 

inside.  I was happy to see one of the parents, but he/she 

(the light wasn't right to tell for sure) looked sad to me

and sat there on the wire for quite some time.  I've 

gotten some good advice from Betsy in TN from Joyful

Reflections on what we might try to hopefully keep

snakes from trying to climb the pole.  Betsy has just

recently lost a Bluebird family to an unknown intruder. 

Nature can be so cruel sometimes. 

Looking at the sky one more time before I called it

an evening and went inside, I noticed the moon

looking nearly full.  You may have already read about it, 

but tomorrow, Saturday, the Full Moon will be the 

closest and largest of 2012.  I hope it's a clear night!

Until next time...