Hadley-Ives Winter 2011. Page 9. |
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Page 9 features photographs from our winter in Springfield. |
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| Flying back from Oregon to Springfield we made stops in Sacramento, Phoenix, and Saint Louis. Here is the Grand Canyon seen from our airplane. |
This hill in Arizona was casting a very long shadow in the late afternoon light. | In the distance to the east we could see snow on a mountain as we descended toward Phoenix. | |
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| Some hills north of Phoenix seen from our airplane window. |
The sun was setting as our flight descended into Phoenix, but we were on the left side of the plane. | When we arrived in Saint Louis there were a few presents for us to open. | |
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| Arthur received this game. |
Sebastian received a keyboard. | A couple days later, Jeri returned to Springfield from Taiwan. | |
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| Although Jeri was tired, we decided to open presents and help her unpack. |
Arthur demonstrated his skills on the guitar, which he had received the previous afternoon. | Jeri received a few things for Christmas. | |
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| We saw Tom Irwin perform in the Old State Capitol early on New Year's Eve. | In the last hour of 2010 we watched a stage hypnotist put people into an hypnotic state of consciousness. | On New Year's Eve I took Sebastian and Arthur downtown for First Night, and we saw these fireworks. |
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| Arthur in the woods at night when we went camping at Camp Illinek. | Arthur walking in the woods during the Klondike Derby. | Eric reading his textbook outdoors in the cold (-14 C) temperatures while camping. |
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| The photograph linked to the small image above is a panorama of our side of S. Park Ave, and is 9,500 pixels wide (it's huge). Image is Jeri after clearing snow from our driveway and sidewalks on February 2nd. | Morning of February 2nd, looking out our front door after 9 inches of snow fell in a blizzard. The large image linked to this photo is 5,000 pixels wide. | Snow angel in our back yard. |
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| Jeri turned 42 years old in January. Here she is with her birthday cake. | Eric very rarely eats meat, so here is a typical dinner for him, with potatoes, green beans, tofu, tomatoes, pears, and grapefruit or oranges. | Eric took this photograph at midnight looking across our street from our front porch. The camera had a 8-second exposure, so it looks very bright. |
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| Here is a house sparrow approaching a crowded bird feeder in the morning after a few inches of snow fell overnight. | I think that is a female house sparrow coming in to land at the bird feeder. | The house sparrows are very aggressive, and they crowd around the bird feeders, leaving native species such as dark-eyed juncos and white-throated sparrows to gather seeds that have spilled under the feeders. |
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| Icicles hanging from our back porch. Arthur entertained us by snowboarding and sledding down the backyard slope and across the ditch at the bottom of the yard. | Our solar-powered red fairly lantern had a cap of snow in the mornings after snow. | Mourning doves are looking for seeds under the feeder. That's probably a white-throated sparrow with them. |
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| This is a young red-tailed hawk lurking in a shrub by our back porch. He was waiting to ambush a sparrow or junco. | The hawk did in fact catch a little bird and devoured its prey in the snow in our neighbor's backyard. | Here is a male house sparrow. He seems to have a scowl on his face. |
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| Red cardinals are delightful in the snow, where their striking red color shows well. | This is a female cardinal at one of our feeders. | This is probably a white-throated sparrow. I think so because I think I see yellow lores between the eyes and beak, but the head looks more like a white-crowned sparrow. |
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| Here is our backyard grey squirrel eating seeds under the birdfeeder. | This grey squirrel is now living in the birdhouse hanging from the maple tree in our backyard. | Here is a Dark-eyed Junco eating seeds under the bird feeder. |
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| A downy woodpecker at our bird feeder. | A blue jay perched on a shrub. | A Northern Flicker on a maple tree. |
Hadley-Ives homepage. More photos from Fall of 2010. Sources and diversions.
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