Picture-A-Week-2016 - Week 13

Pictures taken between Monday March 21 and Sunday March 27.

Fooling around with my new phone at a plane recycle yard

Easter is equal going to the mountains for us in Norway, and doing different winter activities. Dogsledding is one of them:

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Happy Easter to all. Being down in Charlottesville, Virginia, am enjoying the nice, Spring weather, plus grandsons and family. Below are a few visuals from yesterday to symbolize this wonderful Spring season.

THANKS! Enjoy! Terry in Ohio

Enjoyed a 14-day, Jan. 20-Feb. 3, 2014, Sydney to Auckland adventure, getting a big sampling for the wonders of "down under” before and after this cruise. Go to:

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1974139

for more info and many pictures of these amazing sights in this great part of the world. Now at 138,829 views for this posting.

Here are a few visuals sampling from wonderful Spring day in central Virginia. Enjoy the season!!:

 

 

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Fantastic. I can't really express how much I love this shot.

A good week!

Dave

Thank you:)

Here are some more visuals from Spring and being in Virginia. Doing bikes, playing outside, etc.??!! It's all super fun for this time of the year after folks have been cooped up during the winter season.

THANKS! Enjoy! Terry in Ohio

For details and visuals, etc., from our July 1-16, 2010, Norway Coast/Fjords/Arctic Circle cruise experience from Copenhagen on the Silver Cloud, check out this posting. This posting is now at 196,026 views.

http://www.boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1227923

Here are some more examples of Spring fun and excitement from yesterday, including being with our two grandsons in Virginia. Kids playing on bikes is greatly exciting. Nice time of the year to be visiting in this scenic and historic "Land of Jefferson"!!:

One month old and her first Easter.

Receipt of a birthday lens led to the obligatory testing and an impromptu portrait of Matthew during tablet time. Not bad for dim window and tablet light at ISO 5000.

A Boy And His Tablet

Dave

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Very cool dog mush shots - that's something you don't see often in here!

Our birds are heavily into their breeding season, so many of them are really turning on their special colors and feather displays to attract mates. Some of you who don't know birds may not realize that birds can completely change colors on parts of their bodies and feathers when they go into mating season...some otherwise dull birds can get quite colorful. Here are some mating-season birds from Saturday:

Cattle egrets are generally dull white birds with pale yellow bills. But when it's mating time, they color up quite a bit - the bill takes on oranges, pinks, & reds, the eye even changes color from yellow to red - the feathers on the head and neck take on a yellow-brown wash, and the feet and legs go from greyish black to a vivid red:

Snowy egrets typically have yellow feet on black legs, and black bills - during mating season, the feet turn a bold reddish orange and a touch of color in the face along the bill gets the same shade:

Tricolor herons are already pretty colorful birds...their big change for mating season is their yellow and grey bill turns into a vivid blue bill:

Other than color changes...the other thing you see this time of year is furious nest building activity. Having a big comfy looking nest is a way for a male to attract a female, with his great ability to provide a home to raise the young...so male birds are constantly flying back and forth with branches and leaves to build their nests. Here, a male wood stork is coming straight at you, with nest materials in his mouth:

Here, a male wood stork is coming straight at you, with nest materials in his mouth:

What a great photo, well done!!!