Wild Turkeys - Strutting Their Stuff

Ask me if I am excited about this blog.  As I was driving down the road today, I was talking to my friend on the phone and she stated that she was standing at her house and it looked like there were some wild turkeys standing on the road.  Immediately, my camera mode kicked in and I started asking her question after question after question......where exactly are they...how far from your house....are they right in the middle of the road.....yada, yada, yada.  At that point, I was only a few miles from her home so bee-lined it, I did.  When I spotted them, I slowed down and drove slowly to where they were.  I rolled down my window hoping to get a good picture of them when to my surprise, they strutted right over to my car.  I don't know if this is the right terminology or not but I'm going to call it P.P. (Photographer Palpitations).  I was pretty excited about getting photos of these fellas.  What a moment for me.  I've never been this close to wild turkeys before.  My first thought was.........I sure wished my father was here to see this.  After shooting shot after shot, it dawned on me once again that I had video mode on my camera.  At this time, the turkeys were moving away from my car so I hurried up and dialed video mode on my camera and started rolling the action.  Can you believe it....I only had about 1 minute of video action when my camera flashed...insufficient memory.  Go figure.

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No Comparison

Here's a photo update to my last blog.  Remember I was telling you about the pretty picture I took from my dining room window.  Shortly after that, the sun came out so I ventured outside to get a closer photo of the same scene..............WOW, no comparison in the two pictures.  The last one I took is much more beautiful with the sun shining, highlighting the fence posts and weeds.  While I was out, I decided to take some more pictures but that didn't last too long.  Strong winds came up very quickly, blowing very cold air around my face & body and just about froze me before I got back to the house.  Burr-r-r-r-r-r-r.  Anything for a better photo, right?

Ah, Mackay

This morning when I got up, and to my surprise, we had an inch of new snow. I was looking through a pair of binoculars at the deer in the field just behind our home when this came into view. I thought it was beautiful. I decided to take a picture of it from the comfort of my home. This shot was an entire field length away and I was taking it through my dining room window using my 14X optical zoom and without a tripod, so it is a little blurry but still, the scenery was too beautiful to pass up. Right now it is snowing and wouldn't make for the best photo but hopefully it will clear up soon and I can go outside and get a better shot of this area.  Ah, Mackay......what a beautiful little valley for taking photographs.

God's Country

Yesterday, after I had driven down off of the mine hill and was cruising around town, I came across this site.  Wow, Old Glory and Mt, McCaleb in one shot..............just goes to prove that Mackay is, of course, God's Country.  I spotted the flag flying as I was coming down main street and decided to drive one block down and head down a back alley to take this picture.  Mt. McCaleb is a photographic opportunity for many people who take pictures.  What a majestic mountain.  One lady here in the valley is actually making a photo book that is titled: McCaleb Moods.  She told me that everyday there is a different photo you can take of the old mountain and they are never the same.  I can believe that because since I have started taking pictures, I have a lot of Mt. McCaleb in my photo files.  Yessiree, you heard me right................God's Country.

I am behind mainstreet in this next picture just to show you the flag I noticed before taking the picture of it in front of Mt. McCaleb.  This building, believe it or not is right on our mainstreet.  Of course it doesn't look like this from the front view but it just goes to show you the story behind little old towns.  You can't help but love the atmosphere you get from little, small towns.