What Do You See Outside YOUR Open Window Today?

What Do You See Outside YOUR Open Window Today?
Remember: "When God closes a door, He always opens a window!" You never know what might be out there waiting for you!

Friday, July 30, 2021

Friday Foto Friends~Lost and Found!

 Good Morning my Friday Foto Friends! 

First of all, again I want to thank all of you again for your thoughtful words of encouragement and prayers for me this past week as I endured that procedure on my neck .  I am feeling so much better and am so very thankful for how well the epidural has helped me to get some movement back into my neck without so much pain. I will be going back to physical therapy this morning and trusting I will be able to do so much more now without so much resistance! Praise God for healing grace and modern medicine!


Last week, if you read my post over at The Adventures of Lily Grace about the baby bluebirds leaving the nest, you will recall that Lily reported that we watched altogether four baby bluebirds leaving the nest. It was quite an exciting event...and in all the excitement of course I was taking pictures left and right. However at one point I had become so excited with checking my pictures on the computer and then having more action going on outside that I forgot to put the memory card back in my camera and as I was taking pictures of the last birds leaving the birdhouse, I realized too late they were not being recorded on the memory card, but in the "internal memory" of my camera.  This is an older model Kodak "EasyShare Z650" camera, which I love...but I never had the attachment to retrieve the pictures from the internal memory...a special cord that attaches to the camera and to the computer, and so those pictures were now stuck inside the camera with no way to send them to the computer! I could see them on the little "review" screen on the camera, and there were some very good pictures there, which I very much wanted to be able to share with you! And so, I had to do some googling and find the attachment I needed on Amazon.com, and thankfully it was available and not terribly expensive, and so I ordered it! So I have told you all of this so that you will fully appreciate the trouble I have gone to in order to share these photos with you today!!!

And so, drum roll, drum roll, without further adieu, here are the missing baby bluebird pictures:

This was actually the fourth baby to emerge from the birdhouse.  We did not realized there was a fourth bird still inside! We were so busy watching the others as they flew up into the trees to meet their parents that we had turned our backs on the birdhouse for a while. So you can imagine my surprise and delight when I looked again and saw this timid youngster, hanging on to that ledge with his right foot, wondering whether or not he should let go or not...

And THIS is the best picture of all! Somehow he turned himself around and flapped his beautiful blue wings for us to see, still holding on to the ledge, not quite sure of himself enough yet to let go...

He held on for another few seconds, and then, finally getting up his courage, he flew over to the deck railing and sat there for a few minutes to catch his breath and get up the courage to finally fly up to the trees...




He looked up at me (I was inside the house looking through the window), and I guess seeing me there made him realize he'd better get a move on and find his family before the funny looking lady with the silver camera got any closer...


I took this picture of the mother or father bluebird up in the tree, (bird on the lower left) calling to him.  I didn't realize until I finally was able to enlarge this photo on the computer that there was a Brown Thrasher sitting there, on the right, very close to the Bluebird!  I don't know if he would have hurt the baby bluebird, but I am sure Mama or Papa Bluebird were ready to fight for their baby no matter what!


And so that was the end of the Baby Bluebird photos on my "internal memory".  But there were a few other pictures that had been trapped inside my camera for some time that I was happy to finally "set free".  I figured you might enjoy seeing them as well, so here goes the remainder of my "trapped photos":

Last winter you might recall that we had a huge flock of Robins and Cedar Waxwings fly in and literally strip our holly tree of all of its red berries within the space of a few days.  Even though I posted many pictures from that event, apparently there were a few that I missed, again due to my overzealousness in taking pictures without remembering to put the memory card back inside my camera.  So here's a few of a Robin, having his breakfast, taken last November:




Our holly tree is once again loaded with berries, but they are still green. I expect we will have another rush of birds again later this year to look forward to!

And these last few pictures are the rest of what was hidden on my camera. Nothing too exotic or surprising, but we might as well get them out there and look at them, right?
One of our favorite Canada Geese, sometime this past winter or spring...

And my attempt to take a picture of a goose flying across Still Waters Pond. I like the golden ribbon effect from the motion of the wings in flight...do you see it?


Here is a picture of one of our lovely water lilies, which I had pulled up from the pond when I was out kayaking last year. I miss paddling around the pond in the kayak...maybe now that my neck is not quite so bad I might dare to venture out again one of these days...maybe when it cools down a bit...we'll see...that's a good goal for me to work  towards...


And if you look closely, you can see the female and male Wood Ducks swimming on the pond. I am always happy when I can get a picture of them because they mostly stay on the other side of the pond and if they detect my movement at all they take off and fly, so it is very hard to get a decent picture of them. 


Okay, that's all that was on there! But the good thing is, now that I have this attachment, it doesn't matter if I forget to put the memory card in or not!! Yay! Anything to help my feeble memory these days is a good thing!

Okay, so tomorrow is going to be a great day, as I am going to meet our blogging friends Barbara from Sweet Tea and Sandals and Terri from Your Friend From Florida for lunch over in the little town of Micanopy.    We are all very excited to be able to get together again. I have met both Barbara and Terri in the past, but never all together. So you can expect to be seeing lots of pictures from this little adventure from all three of us, I am certain!  It would be wonderful if sometime more of us bloggers could plan to meet together! Wouldn't that be a "hoot"?  

It might make history!

Have a blessed and wonderful weekend, my friends.














22 comments:

  1. I love all the baby bluebird pictures and all the others too. I hope the 3 of you have the best time!!!

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    1. Thank you, Cathy! I am sure we will have a ball! Wish we could stage a gathering for ALL of us sometime!!

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  2. Indeed, I am looking forward to tomorrow! See you then!

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    1. Oh, me too!! Me too!! Can't wait. I am feeling so much better, so hopefully I will be able to make it there and back by myself! I may bring a little tiny blogging friend who might want to have an adventure along for the ride...

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  3. Oh have fun at lunch tomorrow. Sounds like great fun.

    What an interesting predicament with no cord to extract the photos
    from the camera. Glad that you figured it out and that now you have
    your photos.

    Take some pics tomorrow, please. ☺️

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    1. Thank you, Vee. Yes, we will take pictures, and I am sure it will be great fun for us. I wish we could ALL figure out a way to meet some day!!!

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  4. Oh what fun you'll have getting together with friends! And I love Micanopy...so many great photo ops! Glad you are feeling better and everything went well. LOVE the baby bluebird! How sweet! Enjoy your day! HAVE FUN!!!

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    1. Oh Diane...you should come join us too!! Welcome back from your little blogging break...you know you are welcome...so please just show up if you decide to go for an outing tomorrow!! It's such a small town I doubt it would be difficult to find us!! That would be a real treat!

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  5. I'm thankful you found what you needed to share these amazing photos with us. They are so precious. Nature is amazing and God is good!

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    1. Thank you, Debby! I was glad I could figure it out too. And now I have this cord as a back up so I never need to lose another picture!! Yay! And Yes, God IS so good!

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  6. Lovely photos again. I enjoy watching all our wildlife too, especially the birds.
    I rescued baby Carolina Wrens yesterday. There's a nest gourd we put out at the edge of our fenced in area that they use, and it had come loose!! The gourd, the babies and the nesting material was scattered on the ground with ants all over them! I quickly cleaned them off, put them back inside and secured the gourd with wire. Mama bird came back. I guess they're OK. Hope so. My heart was racing I was so worried about them.
    Such are the adventures of Country Living. *lol*
    Blessings. xx

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    1. Oh, wow, Dr. Doolittle! Thank you for rescuing the baby wrens! They do build their nests in the strangest places, and you never know when you may come across one! Thank you for being so kind and caring and brave to do that!! Yes, wonderful adventures in country living! Nothing could be better than that!!

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  7. Gosh, Pam, watching that last baby ... was your heart in your throat? (Mine was, just seeing these awesome photos.) This is better than one of those pricy coffee table books. Hey! Maybe you could have some made and put out for sale in Benton and Rose's shop?!
    I can't wait to see pictures of your ladies luncheon tomorrow!

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    1. Yes, my heart was in my throat, and I was SO happy I was catching it all in pictures, until I realized there was no memory card in the camera, and then my heart sank...until I realized I could order that cord and get them out of there! (after I tore the house apart looking for such a cord that I thought I had one time but I have NO idea where it is today, and so it was better for me to just order another one rather than go crazy searching for something that may not even exist accept in my mind...Ha Ha!) I don't know about pictures for sale...you are very kind. I just don't know that people would pay money for them...but we can all enjoy them here for free. And yes, I will be taking pictures tomorrow! Can't wait. Wish you could ALL be there!

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  8. I am thrilled that you got that attachment to retrieve your photos from your camera, Pamela! You've given us such delightful shots here today. And yes, I'm sure it will come in handy in the future. We Boomers need all the help we can get!
    Have a great time with Barbara and Terri, and I'll be looking forward to seeing lots of photos on all of your blogs.
    Blessings!

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  9. Those baby Bluebirds are just so stinkin cute. i am sure that by now you have had a wonderful time with blogging friends.Waiting to hear all about it.

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  10. Great news. Beautiful and amazing photos.

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  11. I always enjoy your birdie photos. It reminds me of my Nana and sitting at her dining room table watching the birds at her feeders (she lived surrounded by woods and pasture and across the road from a swamp designated a National Wildlife Refuge so there were a LOT of birds). I hope that sweet little Blue Bird gathers his courage and keeps up with his family! Oh yes, it would be wonderful to have a blogging get together somewhere! Somewhere central to most...Tennessee sort of comes to mind. Maybe one day!

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  12. THANK YOU for getting that cable so that we can see the trapped pictures! It was well worth it in my opinion, just for that lovely picture of the scared baby bluebird flapping his wings! But all of the trapped photos are wonderful! I hope your visit with your bloggie frens in real life is as fun as you deserve -- meaning GREAT FUN! I have to wonder, will Lily Grace slip into your purse and go, too?

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    1. Stay tuned for the next episode to find out the answer to your questions! LOL.

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  13. Pam, you got some really great photos from your camera! I especially love the baby blue birds!! I am late catching up but am safely home and my computer is on my lap! xo

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  14. Pam: I read about your visit before I came to this post. I love the pictures of the wildlife. Peace and blessings to you.

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