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Our Beautiful Earth

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A Timelapse Journey with Nature: 2009-2011 from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo.

speechless !!!!

My backyard visitors

breakfast, lunch time is nature watch time for our family.

from breakfast nook window you could see veggie garden, lake, and surrounding area.

in summer we see all sorts of birds come and go as they please, when ever i get a chance i take a picture, most of the time i want to take a picture but the batteries are out. Me and kids try to identify the bird and know about them little bit.

American Goldfinch
beautiful color and tiny bird sitting on my Cosmos branch with juicy worm, when my daughter yelled for me to see this beauty i am so glad my camera is ready with batteries.

Great blue heron visits often for fish

European Starling



Turkey vulture, first i was shocked to see such a big bird in my backyard, they stayed there quit a while, roaming and checking, excited to see them!



Ruby-throated hummingbird.
it's a challenge to take a good picture, they are fast and very tiny.

Canada goose, except winter they are in the lake or backyard eating grass and chit chatting in groups.

common grackle or common raven
i couldn't figured out which one

pekin duck 

{photos taken by me}

Nature-al parenting

Nature at work
these cute Canadian goose couple are so busy now a days.
they are new parents!
mom and dad goose teaching everything what those cute goslings supposed to learn!
every minute they are protecting and keeping an eye on babies, don't even dare to go near them while they are parenting.
fun to watch from my kitchen table. 

14 years and counting

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.  ~Gertrude S. Wister

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.  ~Chinese Proverb

 I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.  ~Emma Goldman




{pictures taken by me}

sky at dusk

The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue

   The setting sun, too indolent to hold

   A lengthened tournament for flashing gold,

Passively darkens for night’s barbecue

by- Jean Toomer

All vanishes! The Sun, from topmost heaven precipitated, 
Like a globe of iron which is tossed back fiery red 
Into the furnace stirred to fume, 
Shocking the cloudy surges, plashed from its impetuous ire, 
Even to the zenith spattereth in a flecking scud of fire 
The vaporous and inflamèd spaume. 

by -Victor Hugo

{photos taken by me}

flowers!

spring anticipation!!

heading to March and my bones are begging for some sun shine, and my body is nagging for long walk! 
sky is still gray, 
soil, still covered with snow

my soul is peeking for glimpses of sun rays;)

{photo taken by ME}

snow storm

I came from hottest and humid part of south India to cold place in North America. snow used to be a fantasy for me.

For my kids it's all the way around, they are making memories of this place and there fantasy is visiting cousins, places where mom and dad grew up, in the hottest weather conditions, four of us heap memories about same places with different view point.

  Friday night we had a snow storm passed by with wild winds leaving us with breathtaking beauty and chores. we wake up with one foot snow piled up around the place. no one touched it yet so its like a white carpet everywhere, so warm and cozy inside and spectacular outside. but reality hits.

we have to clean the driveway! you can't leave it, since this beautiful fluffy snow become ice soon, and if somebody walks on it, slip and break their neck, beauty becomes nightmare and you are Guilty! Damn! why it has to be like that. there is always a price for amenity. 

Well boys get ready. eat extra idli and drink more milk put the cold gear on, duty is calling. they didn't say a thing. whining is not allowed. life must move on. 

shoveling snow is grueling job, it looks like you are dealing a fluffy snow but your back hurts like hell while doing it, on top of it snow blowing on your face, your skin started cracking and numb your nerve. it's not fun huh! you experience fantasy and pain at the same time:)

The essence of life is not attaining happiness, but to live with neutrality where there is neither happiness nor sorrow but contentment.

 for him it's a solid one hour workout.

and for kids it's playtime !!

what am i doing you may ask! i never get tired of taking pictures

windy perfect layers!

who said only clear night sky lit with stars. look closer there are millions under the bright sunny day on snow:)

click on image if you want to see full size, all images, taken by Me

welcome February:)

ambience of life