Early evening skies at the end of November:
(In Oregon)
And
Early morning skies the first week in December:
(In Florida, from the screen porch)
It's good to be back in the land of sunshine!
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It's almost time for us to migrate to the other coast ...
Taking a blog break for a week or two.
See you soon!
THANK YOU to the hosts at SKYWATCH FRIDAY.
This couple seemed to be enjoying the mud as the water receded (earlier this month). There's even less water on this side of the Lake now, so the geese and ducks we saw from our window earlier in the season have migrated -- to the other side of the Lake if not further.
I thought at the time that it was a pair of mallards, but here the male doesn't seem to have a green head (or at least it didn't show up as green in the available light).
A closer look at each of them.
Thank you to Stuart at WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY and Michelle at NATURE NOTES. Don't miss their blogs!
Our season at Fern Ridge Shores is coming to an end. Here are some memories of the last month that we'll take with us when we leave.
The Winter rains arrived last week and every bit of the lake is a bed of mud now.
But it was so beautiful here until then!
(The pictures were taken here in the RV Park or along Jeans Road -- from the last week in October through November 10, when it seems like winter officially started -- and photo ops stopped -- in this part of Oregon.)
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This post is linked to MOSAIC MONDAY. Thank you to Mary at Dear Little Red House for hosting.
The theme for this week's SUNDAY STILLS photo challenge is YELLOW.
I took these during a long walk last Sunday, just after I'd read the e-mail announcing the theme. Skies were blue, and it was 70 degrees outside that day!
That's more like Spring temperatures for this part of Oregon. But the yellow leaves were a reminder that it was November.
On another morning (early) the sky had a golden-yellow glow. Again, it was warm for fall, but the migrating geese were a visual and audio reminder of the season.
Thank you Ed for hosting the challenge and welcome back.
It's a new morning .
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"Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.” President Barack Obama.
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A Monday post a couple of weeks ago explained a little more about the annual draining of Fern Ridge reservoir and shows pictures of the other side of the Lake, where the dam is.
This is how it looks from the side of the Lake where our RV is. Below is the shrinking channel along Jeans Road on the last day of October... I took a lot of bird pictures from here earlier in the season when there was more water.
And below is today's view from the RV window:
Hard to believe that sail boats were skimming over the top of those stumps just a couple of months ago! The birds have found a good spot to gather forces before flying further south as the water continues to shrink.
Chances are pretty good we'll be looking out at a meadow by the time we leave Fern Ridge Lake for the Winter.