Outside in the U.P. !!

Sometimes you can be in the middle of the woods,

and come across electric lines and a train!:

My thrill of the day: A Baltimore Oriole! Right in our back yard!:

This beauty was right in the middle of the woods on an abandoned railroad track!:

Do you see him?:

Our little Chipping Sparrow with a Mohawk!:

I chased this little guy all over the woods because he had a beautiful light blue color when his wings were wide open...but only caught photos of him with closed wings!:

A HUGE mushroom on a tree the size of a platter!:

And, another mushroom on the tree next door, almost as big!:

If you can't think of what kind of photos to shoot,

just

walk outside.

Mother Nature will point them out to you.

More This and That from the Woods....

It's time again to take you on a journey in the Michigan woods with me.

Come and look at what we saw, shall we?

First, a lovely stream in the middle of the woods:

And look! A turtle on a log!:

And an unusual black and white mushroom:

Here is the side view of the same mushroom. I liked the lacey sides:






And then? : We saw a HUGE turtle crossing a wood's road:

I don't know the name of this wildflower. It isn't a Queen Anne's Lace, I don't think, but I loved the open look of the flowers:

And another damselfly on a blade of grass:

We rode down a road and right where water was coming out of a drainage ditch where a little river flowed, I spotted a snake~! My husband could not believe I saw it from the car window. So, we stopped the car, I climbed down the hill from the road and I swear he posed for me:

Here is a close up of that big turtle that was crossing the road. We wanted to carry him to the other side so noone would drive over him. He wasn't real happy about our assistance, but I did make him pose for a photo before we placed him on the side of the road in the grass. He quickly crawled into the woods when we put him there:

Stay tuned...we have lots more "day in the woods" pictures coming.

Because it is one of my favorite things to do...

treasure hunt for photos in the woods!