CFFC- Lunch or Dinner

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This week for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge the theme is something suggesting lunch or dinner.

Back in the day I was playing with my food more and setting up “food photography shots”. Here’s old image of mine suggesting lunch. A turkey and avocado sandwich.

Do you like chips with your sandwich?

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Or how about tacos?

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Let’s finish this post with dessert shall we? How about some fancy smores?

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CFFC-Breakfast

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I was MIA with a post last week and reading yours. It was a busy week with lots of birding, a Gull ID field workshop, lunch and shopping with girlfriends, and a not so spontaneous overnight trip to Henderson, NV to see a rare bird. I’ll tell you more about that later.

I thought I’d use Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge to let you know I’m catching up with your blogs and getting back to my regular schedule of posting.

Here are two of my classic breakfasts. I made these images a long time ago but, they fit the challenge and I still eat these foods for breakfast most days.

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Friday’s Feathered Friends-Birds, Birds, Birds

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I thought I’d share some of the birds I’ve seen the last couple of weeks.

Starting with a little Pygmy Nuthatch. It was flying to and from its nest the hole in a tree trunk you can sort of see behind it.

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A female Downy Woodpecker who was cold that morning. It was 15 degrees F when we started birding. She didn’t move from that tree for the longest time.

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Another morning I had the pleasure of viewing a posing Cooper’s Hawk. Look at that tail!

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Then it showed off its wing.

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Then it flew showing off its wing span.

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Last but not least, I saw the pair of Bald Eagles in their tree near my house on my way out last week. He was obscured by all the branches, but she was up high and in the open. I had to stop for a photo of her.

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That’s all I have for you this week. I may be late getting to your posts and blogs this morning as I’m birding with my bird group.

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Thursday Doors- Nº14 in Watercolor

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Last week Pit from https://pitsfritztownnews.wpcomstaging.com/2025/02/17/august-september-2024-three-country-tour-in-europe-a-walk-around-chur/

posted a bit about some time he and his wife spent in Chur, Switzerland, and I loved one of the doorways so, I asked him it it would be alright if I tried to draw and paint it. He said yes! Here’s the reference photo. Used with Pit’s permission.

I wanted to simplify the image a lot keeping the door and only a bit of the courtyard. thought the little entry stair would be the hardest for me to draw so did a little thumbnail sketch- it was okay so pressed on and painted this.

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I think the courtyard is too busy and I wanted to blur out the sides more so played with another rough sketch.

Chose my colors and painted version 2.

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I’ve taken on the challenge of painting 100 mini paintings this year. I’m 16 paintings in. I’m going to paint this in mini this weekend. Time will tell if I can make it to 100 or not.

Thanks again, Pit for letting me use your photo as a reference!

This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://nofacilities.com/2025/02/20/riding-around/

Hop on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊

Stratemore watercolor paper, M. Graham watercolor paints, assorted brushes. Images iPhone 14 Pro.

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Friday’s Feathered Friends-Couples

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Being Valentine’s Day today I thought I’d share a couple of bird pairs/couples.

Mallard pair

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Hooded Merganser pair

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I hope you all have a lovely Valentine’s Day and great weekend.

Nikon D850| Nikkor 500mm| PS CC

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Thurs. Doors- The Eagle Little Library

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Last week He-Man wanted to break in his new car with a little road trip to the seaside. Santa Barbara, CA. was where he wanted to go. We did some kayaking, birding and a lot of walking. One of the places we birded was Santa Barbara Botanical Garden. The trails are great and while we in the Backcountry section of the garden we came across a Little Library. It’s an Eagle named Nest where you’re invited to enjoy reading while in his nest. I loved it!

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This is the coolest Little Library I’ve ever seen.

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This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://wordpress.com/tag/thursday-doors

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Thursday Doors- 2024 Leftovers

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These are doors I saw during 2024 that I didn’t manage to share plus one a friend sent me that he thought I’d like and he was right, I do!

Through the thicket I spied this old barn and there are doors on that old van too.

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Another barn. This is one of the last images I took in 2024. I spied this barn while doing the Christmas Bird Count in my county on the 29th of December. It was a very cold, windy, rainy, snow flurries day so my partner and I only saw 23 species during our time out. I loved the Copula door. I imagine Owls using it.

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Fishy Door. Every door had a fish over it. I’d bet money who ever lives here fishes.

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A Red Shed that could use some TLC.

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This is the door(s) to the laundry room at a favorite campground.

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This is the door a friend sent me that he saw while in London and thought of me. Isn’t it gorgeous! Doesn’t the portico look like it’s made of cherry wood?

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That’s it for my 2024 doors. I hope 2025 has lots of interesting doors in it for us all.

This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://nofacilities.com/2025/01/09/runaround-prepare-the-badges/

Head on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊

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