THIRTY DAY CHALLENGE--A PHOTO A DAY--day nineteen

Crowded Bike Rack plus Photoshop

Straight Out of Camera

(and reduced to 500px for faster upload)

Intensified Colors and Shadows

Reverse Weird Out

Sienna Shades of Light

THIRTY DAY CHALLENGE--A PHOTO A DAY--day eighteen

April showers--

--bring May flowers.

What do Mayflowers bring?

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It's still plenty cold here in the morning.

The sprinklers on the golf course made their own ice sculptures.

This gives playing out of the rough a whole new meaning.

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I was riding my bike past a small pond this morning and stopped to take some photographs of a flock of pelicans making a rest stop on their way to their nesting grounds just north of here.

 I woke them up from their nap in the sun.   I like how they look like old men with their fluffy top knots and their wrinkled faces.  Their red boots are very stylish.

The following info borrowed from Wikipedia:  The American White Pelican rivals the trumpeter swan as the largest bird native to North America.

 The plumage is almost entirely bright white, except the black primary and secondary flight feathers.

 The bill is huge and flat on the top, with a large throat sac below.  In the breeding season, there is a laterally flattened "horn" on the upper bill, located about one-third the bill's length behind the tip. This is the only one of the eight species of pelican to have a bill "horn". The horn is shed after the birds have mated and laid their eggs. 

A side note:  My fisherman hubby has no kind feelings for the flocks of pelicans who help themselves to more than the legal limit of the trout in his favorite lakes.

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Crummy gray, windy weather so I finally had no excuse not to finish this painting.

It's called, "Just Browsing." Two young mule deer look up from grazing beneath the aspens.

You can find this and more original watercolors at my Etsy site.

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One of the best parts of spring--

New babies out in the pastures.

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Hill Training

With the half marathon only a month away Beavis and CindylooWho extended their training run to eleven miles.

 They started 'way, 'way out in the boonies where the giant wind generators grow.  Even though the weather was perfect for running you can still see traces of snow in the shady spots.

The first few miles were UPHILL.

They jogged along at a pretty fast pace, staying well under ten minute miles.

I managed to keep up with them because I was on my bicycle.  When I happened to get ahead of them on the downhills I stopped to take artsy photos like this and bird photos like the one in the previous post.