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A Peaceful Confrontation and Not
Dear Friends, these two trumpeter Swans have returned to the Northland, and with lots of talking there are some confrontations. Sometimes they are peaceful and just showing off their beautiful white feathers, other times there is chasing and pulling on feathers as shown in the bottom image, enjoy, til Tomorrow MJ
A Winter Guest
Dear Friends, this boy(Pileated Woodpecker) was shopping for groceries in our 3 inches of new snow. Jim had just put out a new suet block and he zeroed in on it. The red dash under his chin marks him as a male, on females that spot is black. Hope they will nest here in our woods, may have to sit out in the woods to see where they are working, til Tomorrow MJ
Swans have returned
Dear Friends, thanks for all your encouraging words and prayers, Jim and I were in Fish Lake Refuge this week and we saw about 20 Trumpeter Swans who have arrived here before the ice is melted. These two had just landed on the ice and I loved the cyan hue of the ice, this image was processed with LAB color space, enjoy til Tomorrow MJ
Returning to Fall
Dear Friends, need some color in my life right now, everything up here is gray, white or brown, I am working with a new colorspace, LAB in photoshop, gives wonderful colors without over saturating, this is true to what we saw this afternoon in the North Dakota Badlands, my favorite place on earth, til Tomorrow MJ