"Some body is eating my porridge!"

Just caught this through the kitchen window........... the turkeys won.

I Have Been Adopted By A Bunch Of Turkeys!

The days are colder, the ground is frozen, and the bugs and grubs are not as readily available for the wild turkeys that live nearby. There is a flock of 16 or so that remember that I have been know to provide a small "turkey snack" when times get tough. They stream out of the near by woods, across the back yard and around to the front of our house where the bird feeders are located. This is also where I throw a small measure of cracked corn.

The "girls" as we call them, scratch at the ground, hunt and peck, and gobble the food up rather quickly. Then they move around to the back of the house, hoping to find another meal. The pickings are not as good back there so the come running around to the front again, as if for the first time, forgetting that they have just cleaned up everything that was there.

We have had freezing rain and snow over these last few days...... guess I will be making my way to the feed store!

Golden Hour ..... best light

Photographers call the hour after sunrise, and the hour before sunset, the Golden Hour, the light is often at its best then...... sometimes I make it ..... (never for the sunrise hour)..... sometimes I don't. I am glad I did not miss these two .

First Snow.... yellow leaves at Golden Hour

I love reflections!

Here we are in the last part of November, the days certainly are much shorter, and colder We have all been around long enough to know what comes next in this part of the woods....

November sunsets are usually spectacular.... the only down side is that they happen too early in the afternoon. Most of us are still busy around 4:30 pm, and often by the time I look out the window and notice the fantastic color display, the light fades and I have missed another one.

Yesterday I was in Magog, a small city at end of our lake, as the sun was getting ready for one more slide behind the mountain. I was near Merrys Point ,and pulled in and parked the car. The wind was strong and cold, but the reflections of the sunset in the windows made it worth while.

The dancing shapes and colors lasted for several minutes...... and then as the last of the light faded there two "sunset tigers" peering out at me through the glass.

Dancing Reflections in the Window

Sunset Tigers looking through the window