CUTTING DOWN A TREE

OUTDOOR WEDNESDAY

I was just looking through my photo files and ran across these pictures taken a few years ago when we had a large tree cut down in our back yard. When we planted the tree it was just a twig. We brought it home from the nursery in the back seat of the car. Years later it had grown so tall that we decided it would be a hazard in the Monsoon season. It was a Silver Dollar Eucalyptus tree and the branches (large ones) broke off easily. 

In the first picture you can see the man up in the tree getting ready to start cutting. Then the picture with all the branches gone and the last shot I took through a high window in our bedroom. No, the wall was not black. I took the picture without flash and it looks that way.

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Quail On Our Fence

Sometimes it's nice to have more than one blog. I just posted a "What's On Your Wall Wednesday" post on my Charlotte's Weblog blog. I could have let it go at that, but no, I had these outdoor pictures that I took a couple of days ago and I wanted to share them. 

My camera just happened to be in the kitchen when I looked out the window and saw these three quail walking along our fence. So, I grabbed the camera and took the pictures through the window. I'm glad I could zoom in on them. If I had tried to go outside they would have taken off before I could snap their pictures. I think they are so cute. We see them quite often. 


Yesterday I posted some birds that I found on the internet that live in our area. Today I wanted to show these birds that actually were in our yard.

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