Antigone wrote: 
Nice.

There are two deer just lying in the grass in our backyard. It's rare to see them just chilling....and not eating or bounding through on their way to somewhere.

 Alexandra wrote: 
Nice!  And I know about the cell phone cameras.  Not to complain about such a wonder of technology, but still.

The courtyard outside my office window is SO lovely this time of year, especially when it's flooded with morning sunlight.
(camera phone does NOT do it justice)

 oldslabsides wrote: 
I could so kick that stick, but then what

...is some serious goose-lovin' going on. I told them to GET A NEST but they wouldn't listen.

 emeraldrose63 wrote: 
You can just see them with your naked eye.  By the time you focused a telescope on one it might have streaked past.  I love watching shooting stars.

 Painted_Turtle wrote: 
That is so cool..  We have some telescopes. I wonder if I can hunt it down and see it too??

I'm going to stay up past midnight tonight and watch the Geminid Meteor Shower out my back bedroom upstairs window.  Its 20 below zero here.  The window faces the northeast and has a clear view.

From the American Meteor Society website:

"The Geminids (GEM) reach maximum activity on Monday evening/Tuesday morning December 13/14 when in excess of 60 shower members can be seen each hour from rural observing sites.

The radiant is located at 07:28 (112) +32. This position lies in northern Gemini near the fourth magnitude star Rho Geminorum. This shower should be very activie this weekend with hourly rates near midnight ranging from 10 Friday night/Saturday morning to 25 Saturday night/Sunday morning."  by Robert Lunsford

The Geminids strike the earth's atmosphere slower than other meteor showers & produce numerous fireballs.  Who knows, maybe I'll see a bright green or orange one.

It's where I want to throw at least one person at least once a day.

 rosedraws wrote: 

Thanks, rose! That's the look I was attempting. It worked out better on this one than on the others I took the same day; they were a little too monochromatic.

 Danimal174 wrote: 
Looks like a beautiful painting.

This was outside the window at work last week, when it was very foggy. I took the pic with my iPhone, so I played around with it some to jazz it up.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Hey!  That's a VERY special bird! 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 


Yeah—odd bird. It winters here. And summers. And so on.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
right? springy bird!

 Xeric wrote: 
*click*
*zoom*
*click*
*zoom*
* * *
WTF that bird