A White Christmas ... not so much

Ignore the date and time I have not bothered to reset the computer.  It was actually 015Dec24 at 06:01 in the morning.  (19° C = 66.2° F )  This is outside my house.

 Standing atop Fort Hill looking south at the snow on Dec 24, THE day before Christmas.   At 66° F there is no snow and has been only about 1.5 in. all year.

 At least the weather was clear for this pix of the Christmas eve moon.

Christmas day and Bristol Mtn is not open for skiing and it has nothing to do with closed-for-Christmas

An eclectic collection since it has so long

A big  Blue Heron standing and not

 A woodchuck in his lawn

 A little Green Heron

 Tiger Swallowtail fills up on the Thistle

 A White Admiral checks the ship

 Just realized Grenville,my dog,  was on his way

 After it saw Grenville

 Before it saw Grenville, my dog

Monotropa uniflora, Indian Pipe a parasite flower

Butterflies etc.

 A Tiger Swallowtail rests for a second

 I was surprised to find this Viceroy.  They look and act like the Monarch and have been very absent this year. 

 I hope he doesn't teary too long before going back to eating insects 

 This called a Giant Swallowtail although it isn't much bigger than the Tiger above.  Not sure I've seen one before.  I had look it up.

Once again Grenville has to pose with a Deer friend.

Sunflowers, Butterflies and rain

 Sunflowers in the sun

 A Tiger Swallowtail, butterfly, on a Butterfly Weed

This morning was a challenge to these golfers.

Pixs since the last time

 Purple bunting

 Just looking for traffic on the trail

 Chipmuck

 Blue Heron

 Rain last night has added to previous rain and is a problem

Off the and down the street

Birds and Butterflies

 I had fun with this turkey.  He would duck down and a sec. later come back up see me duck, raise, duck etc finally I had to move on.

 A downey

 Great Spangled Fritillary one of a very few butterflies this year

 An Eyed Brown

Almost missed this very Scarlet Tanager.

The Last week

A Northern Flicker finds a big hole

This Hawk is being harassed

This wild Tiger Lily is growing where it wants to be

If I only had a match to light this thing

A deer

 the raspberries are getting ripe

Deer on the move

A spring day in the sun

 Eastern Towhee

 Killdeer doing it's best to distract us from it's nest

 Painted turtle sun himself

 Redtail hawk was being harassed by the other bird

 Tiger Swallowtail feeds

Wisteria covers this hillside