Christmas

Merry Christmas to all

 For those who want snow on Christmas - Seek and ye shall find.

For Santa's fisherman friends

Clark's Gully

 The creek

Some ice hangs on.

Christmas is on it's way

 These Mallards are swimming around looking for Santa

 Santa is in the bush

and has been here all year.  I counted 7 of the 11 I found at the peek.

Geese on the pond

The geese on the pnd at Boughton Park

Taughannock Falls on 29 Nov 014

Thanksgiving day

 The Trail on Monday when the temperature was 70° .  The deer under the bridge are on another trail of their own.

 This looking back down the trail toward where I was for Monday's pic. - Thursday, Thanksgiving.

 Milkweed pod in the snow

A black and white picture in full color.

South of Buffalo got 6-7feet; we missed it ...

 Just a fun amount of snow.

Saturday morning 22 Nov 014

The leaf

This leaf was late coming to the party.

First snow

This is the first snow of the year.  Note: see the last post earlier this week.

Fort Hill

 At almost 70° F this Clouded Sulfur was out making the most what will probably be the last warm day.

 The Hawk was just lazy flying in the up drafts of the hill

Looking over the valley

Fall is fading

 Canandiagua Lake

 The fading glory

Note this shot from today in the cold rain verses the last post.

The Trail and Fort Hill

 Trail

 More trail

 View from Fort Hill

 A special bench, memorial

 Fall turns these leaves into flowers

Abiut time to head south.

A fall day at Boughton Park

 Leaves

 Geese

 Look innocent we are being watched

A skewballed (mostly white but not albino) Red tail Hawk

Letchworth State Park in fall

 

Not Letchworth, but a Victor Trail

 Gardeau Overlook

Highbanks Overlook

 On the road, watch for the curves

Fall

 Fall foliage on Bristrol mountain from across the valley on Stid hill

 A Red tail flys passed her mate

The "Blood moon" or eclipse of the moon from earlier this week

Fall stuff

 Not rain but dew

 A lot of green still but some change

 More change

 A young Woodduck silhouette

 Deer at the edge of the woods

 This may be the only Monarch that I have seen all year.

An Egret is becoming a regular in these parts, but is still not very common.