We rescued a Woodpecker....

2)It was lete Saturday afternoon, so I couldn't reach any Animal Shelters run by county. All answering machins and some takes only cats and dogs.......then I remembered!
"Flamingo Garden..." where I often go to take pictures, the other half of their name is, " ...and Wildlife sanctuary" !! I called them on Sunday morning, their clinic would take him!! I drove there and gave him to professional hands. Get well, birdie!

1)I am not writing here as often as before, but it's been a year since I started this blog.
Not so many things happen everyday, even not small things.
But today, there's something special. We found a Red-bellied Woodpecker on the ground.
Three kids were trying to reach him in the bush just outside of my window, so I went out and help them. He couldn't fly and tried to hide in the bush and stuck in branches, when I finally picked him up with a soft towel, he didn't resist much. Legs look all right, wings look OK, too, but he couldn't fly......for the night, we kept him in the box and let's see if he would gain some strength to fly away. I tried some water from the straw, and he took some!!!!

Happy New Year 2009

Happy New Year.....another year, again! I didn't go to the beach to take "New Sunrise" photos, those boats were standing just in front of the Sun last year, I remember. These pictures are taken Dec, 27, they are still there!!

New Years resolution? Well, nothing goes as planned these days, so I don't want to make any plans. Laugh and Smile more, for one. Get a good website to sell my photos, for two. I don't know. I don't feel very ambitious.....so have a big dream, for three!

Cotton Tree

This was a huge tree. Common names are "Tree Hibiscus" , "Cotton Tree"......Latin name: Hibiscus tiliaceus. The bright yellow flowers look just like Hibiscus and they are very short lived. They fade to burgundy red color before falling. But the fading flowers look just beautiful and new, it's wonderful to see flowers in two colors in one tree at the same time. And look at the ground under the tree, only red flowers are lying dead there.

One Little Bird

12/20/08 If you can magnify this photo, you can see that he's watching me over his shoulder.
And also you can see a ring on his leg. I don't know the name of the bird, maybe Eastern Phoebe?? Very nice stripe he has!!

Christmas tree and wreath

12/7/08 Sunday

We bought our Christmas tree, and place it in our Patio. Hopefully, it will stay fresher and longer because the weather is cooler than usual. The smell of the tree and the time to decorate,

gives us a sense of this season, very Chrismasy!!

And our weath....we had a snowman wreath, the snowmans made out of cotton balls, so pretty and original and I liked it very much, but the snowmans are getting old and retired. I took them off the wreath and put them at the window, then Max the cat killed them one by one......

The new wreath, is not very unique, but well, OK.

Florida Everglades

You maybe can't see, but there is one bird in the tree and it's reflection in the water!

12/6/08 World Picture Day at PhotographyVoice.com, members submit one photo taken on setting date for WPD from all over the world. It's very interesting to see all kind of different things on the same day.....for ex, Dec 6 must be a snowy day in North, but beach day in South, winter or summer. So I got up at 5:30 and went to see something at Evergaledes. I saw thousand of birds at Sunrise in this February, I was expecting to see them again but there was no bird there......asked one of the man who came fishing, he said, the water level must be lower for the birds to come back. Aha....!! So I took some photos of the fishing boats at Sunrise, and these Morning dew under the guard rail....(who goes to Everglades and take photos of Gurad rail...??!) some birds.....I love to be up early to go shooting!

11/30/08 Very windy day. I was chasing these dry leaves running in the wind. The sound was wonderful, the sound of Autumn. They were all fallen and dead.....and then, I found the Maple tree full of these new buds already!! Trees never die!!