Sky Watch Season # 4 Episode # 23

Sky Watch Friday this is the place. Please check out the site and link in if you wish to participate. There were a lot of people with beautiful Sky photos last week. You can link in from my side bar or at the start of this post. You can link a 3:00 PM EDT on Thursdays. SWF is run by Klaus, Louise, Wren, Sandy, Sylvia and myself.

The Winter skies can be all gray at times with not much to show. A lone crow in the top of a tree calls to its friends. The haunting caw, caw, caw, with no answers.

Then there are some days when there is a mixture of blue, gray clouds and light at sunrise.

The sunsets are the same as the sun barely breaks through the clouds before setting. This could have been a beautiful show with less of the gray.

Visit some of the other great skies that are at the above link.

Header Competition # 10

The header theme this week by myself is "Up on Top". Mac, Tom, Darla and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week. Go to the other sites to see their interpretation of this weeks theme.

My first thought was this Cardinal up on top of a goose cut-out.

 I always liked the Mourning Dove up on top of the deck railing.

Mister Black Squirrel likes to get up on top of the bird feeder. Check out his friends the American Robin and the female Cardinal underneath.

Miss Mallard Duck likes to get up on top of the bird house.

But my favorite is another photo of Miss Mallard Duck up on top of the bird house. I hope you like it also.

What Is It XXXXIV - Answers

# 1 Now this is one I thought no-one would get. It is a pair of Mourning Doves that come to my bird feeder. The one on the right had lost its tail outer tail feathers (probably to a cat) and only has one inner feather tail left. My resident bird expert, Warren from England, was able to identify a dove from the other feathers showing. Way to show off your birding knowledge Warren. Check out the neat birds in his area of England.

# 2 This is a slug climbing up the siding on my house. Darla from Florida was first to guess a slug, she still has butterflies in her garden. Craver from Illinois guessed house siding, check out his neat 500Th post and the party going on.

I have to give credit for Paul of Salt Creek Life for getting them both late. Check out his neat Christmas poem.
I hope you had fun. We will do this again after the first of the year.

What Is It XXXXIV

My World is just below.

# 1 All I want you to do is identify the bird with the white tail. Really good luck on this one.

#2 Now this is something I see in the warmer months. What is it and where do you think it is located?

Have fun trying a guess.

My World Tuesday Season # 2 Episode # 10

This is my posting for the My World Meme. It is hosted by Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Louise, Sylvia and myself. Won't you join in, I want to see where you live and thrive. Check out the new layout at the My World site. 

One block from the center of Kent you have the old Kent Hotel. It has been out of business and in disrepair for quite a while.

The city tried to encourage downtown business so it helped in building Acorn Alley right beside the hotel.

There are about a dozen and a half businesses lining Main Street and through what use to be an alley way beside a dry cleaners. There are ten businesses that face the alley way.

Here is a look from the back looking down main. It is a neat development if they can get the hotel out of court and back into a refurbished building of some sort.

You can see other worlds above.

Today's Flowers # 70

My friend Luiz from Brazil does the Today's Flowers Meme, check it out. Come and join with your flower photos. Sunday at 2 GMT is the post time.

I posted Spring flowers last week and I continue with some Spring blooms this week. This flower blooms every year.

I think it has a neat yellow and white bloom. It is called Tupila Tarda, thanks Ruth. It is a member of the Tulip family.

It is neat surrounded by the purple flowers.

You can see a lot of great flowers at the above site.