More camera practice - window light

Cheerful picture:

Bored with mom trying to figure out her camera settings:
 

Ramen

Parker's home from school today with a mild tummy bug.  Ramen noodles sounded pretty good for lunch.

Artsy picture: eyelashes

 

Sunday's wardrobe

By the end of the day, she had accumulated this outfit.  Bikini top, cardigan, tulle skirt, slippers and a bow made of duct tape.

Ice cream with a friend

 

Notice anything missing from the couch?

  Bob!  He finally woke up without fever for the first time in 5 days.

And here's a Parker homework pic too.

sunday's pictures

Artsy picture of soup bowl.  Bob has the flu, he's had fever since Friday.  Yes, he got the flu shot - in fact, I'm pretty sure he contracted the flu bug AT THE SAME PLACE where he got his flu shot.


New birds this morning.  What are these?  They look like finches with striped chests.  They're very social and don't mind eating together.  The chicadees wait in line and eat one at a time.

Homework that was saved until today.  This is entirely my fault I'm told, since I didn't inform her yesterday that it was saturday, and that today would be sunday. 

Her cursive is wonderful.  Must be a recessive gene.

Doing some coloring for a "brain break"

Growing weary of the photographer

 

Masthead

Here's a blog header that I never got around to finishing and posting.    

Isn't she tough?

Daily pics

Short order cooking

 

 Arranging animals

 

 

Tropicabana and bird pics of the day

What is this guy?  He has the same racing stripes as the nuthatch, but he's brown and bigger and rounder.


Parker hasn't built anything in a while because she likes the playroom floor clean for dancing and tumbling, but over break she's built The Tropicabana....a sports resort and Tiki lounge for her stuffed animals.  

I have no idea where she gets the tiki lounge thing from....most likely tv.  I guess she was inspired by the "thatched" baskets?

Finch and nuthatch coexisting

more camera practice

Cooperative Subject



Uncooperative subject

 

more bird pics

More bird pics.  This is crazy mrs cardinal.  She pecks at her reflection in the window constantly through the day.  Parker counted 19 in a row this morning until I shooed her away.



Mr. Cardinal is very patient with her.

 

 The birds seem to show up all at once, all together or no one, like a bird pack.  They consist of a couple different sets of cardinals, a few titmice and chicadees and the nuthatches.

This is a finch, right? Or a finches butt...I was concentrating on getting a nuthatch picture not a finch.  There are a couple of them in my pack, and they really hate the chicadees for some reason.  They'll let the titmice and Juncos eat, but they chase away the chicadees.  I thought finches were supposed to be friendly.

 

Some pics

Notice the blurry Christmas tree lights in the background?  I can do that now. 



I'm loving this "messy bun" phase she's going through with her hair. 

Working hard on new calendar

 

Bird ID

Any idea what these little guys are?  They are SO FAST it's nearly impossible to get an in-focus picture of them. I've been camped out in the kitchen all day trying to get a decent shot.   They spend about 1 second in each place, hopping from branch to branch to get closer to the feeder and then they grab a seed and fly off.  They like to be upside down and sideways a lot too. 

 

 

 

Edit:  It's a red-breasted nuthatch.  John had the nuthatch part first, but had to look up the red-breasted part.
I read that they pair up, and that seems to be true here, there are 2 on occasion, but usually it's just one.