My Yard ~ Eastern Bluebirds

 The bluebirds visit me everyday knowing that they'll have mealworms here to eat. And I love taking pictures of them.  Here are some pictures in which I could not choose my favorite out of the batch.

Happy New Year 2026! FOY Bird ~ Northern Yellow-shafted Flicker

First bird of 2026 ~Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker

 

Last bird of 2025 ~ Northern Cardinal

 

Merry Christmas!

Eastern Bluebirds

 

2025 Christmas Postcard Swaps

 I have been in quilted postcard exchange groups since 2006.  Back at that time there were so many groups for swapping the postcards on yahoo groups.  Now, there are so many fewer groups.  I belong to 2 groups Postcard Mail Art and Fabric Postcard Art.  I am the owner of the second group.  For Christmas 2025 I exchanged 7 postcards between the 2 groups.  Here are the postcards I received.

My Yard ~ Red Fox

 Red Fox sightings in my back yard are rare.  this sighting was great because the fox looked so healthy compared to the few I have seen here before.

Snow Day

 The weather forecast all week has been for snowfalls of up to 12" of snow.  Turned out that my area had between 6=8" of weak heavy snow. 

After the storm passed the sun came out amd the snow sparked