Seeds bring hungry birds for photos!

Yesterday's snow brought in plenty of birds to my window feeder. Here is a white throated sparrow.
Immature cardinal, hence the strange colors,

male cardinal

female cardinal and the bluejay!

It is fun to see them up close and personal and a window feeder means they get used to having you close by.

Certainly makes for easier pictures!

Snow Walk Photos

Over 12 inches now and quite the winter wonderland. We donned all the winter gear, left short little Molly behind and trudged out to see.

Terry titled this one snow stalagtites.

Beautiful, bountiful food for the birds, invasive honeysuckle shrubs.

Our creek road. I hope you enjoy the winter wonderland today.

Homemade Peanut Brittle

Homemade peanut brittle is pretty easy to make. This is my grandfather, Daddy Pete's recipe and I finally got my Mom to show me how to make it.

all you need is

1 cup Spanish Peanuts

1 heaping cup of white sugar

1/8 t of baking soda

Take the peanuts and place them in the oven to warm.

At the same time heat a buttered cookie tray to spread the peanut brittle on. If the tray is cold you wont be able to spread the brittle thin.

Have potholders ready and the baking soda measured and ready to add.

Put your sugar in a skillet on medium to medium high, it depends on your stove. Stir the sugar constantly.

Once it begins to heat up, the sugar will begin to melt and turn golden brown, keep stirring, if things heat up too quickly, lift the skillet off the burner to let it cool for a few seconds.

Pretty quickly it will look like this.

When the sugar lumps are almost all melted, add the soda and quickly stir in.

Add the warm peanuts, stir in.

Now pour it on the warmed cookie sheet. Quickly spread as thin as you can before it hardens.

Now let it cook, break it up and enjoy!

Corgi Photos-Amazing what they will do for food!

This is Trevor. I have photographed him several times through the years and he is always a willing victim

It is handy he likes treats, it makes getting great pics of him much easier!

JRT snow hunting

Nothing is better than snow hunting. The scent says put and the hunting is good. Molly loves hunting in the snow

Winter Nap with a Cat!

What is it about a winter day? It makes naps seem so inviting.

Add a cat and the nap is perfect!

Wreath Decorating Seminar

Last week Fort Valley Nursery held a wreath making seminar. There were lots of ideas, lots of things to decorate with,

and best of all everyone had fun coming up with the way to decorate their own wreath.

Everyone with home with a unique wreath and with

smiles on

their faces!

This evening there is another seminar, for info go to the website