Dis and Dat In No Particular Order

Mother Nature has been up to her old tricks again. I don't think that we ever hit the peak color season up here because the snow came before the leaves could completely change. We did get some color but not the brilliant leaves that is our usual. In fact one day David and I took a drive through a nearby woods to find that no leaves had changed, they were all still green. Strange indeed. I had way too many tomatoes this year and I finally quit harvesting because I was sick of canning. I have not gotten the gardens cleaned up yet due to the turn in the weather but hope to get to it today. It is supposed to be in the low 50s so I best get to it. The deer have found what is left of my flower beds, they were munching away last night as we watched.
This old gal, who is 14, looks like a young pup when we walk in the woods.I have been able to catch a few colorful scenes. This one is on a drive somewhere or other up here in one of the many wooded areas.
At our place looking across the road.
On the path in our woods
And this is as good as my mums are going to get this year I am afraid.
And then came the snow.Some color hanging on to a snow covered fence
A colorful tree peeking out behind snow covered evergreens
This was an absolute blast. While on a drive we found a pair of eagles-this one fully mature and another that had not yet developed the white head and tail, feasting in a ditch on a roadkill. It was windy, cold and snowing but I stood in it for about an hour (while David patiently sat in the truck) sneaking up on and photographing the mature eagle. In this picture I was across the road standing stock still while the eagle (who had been frightened away from his task by passing cars) flew back into the ditch from the trees.A while later David and I moved to the opposite side of the road to get another view. I slowly walked into the ditch to watch. Each time a car drove by the eagle took to flight. I suppose people up here are used to this but I never ever get used to it. These huge beautiful creatures swooping right in front of your vehicle. It is startling when it happens they are just so big and majestic.

I was able to get pretty close to their feeding site. In fact he didn't even notice me until he got closer. I thought, hoped, that he would swoop right over my head but didn't.
Even though it was cold I would have stood there another hour just watching them. But it was time to let them alone.

Just another couple of weeks in the northwoods..........