Here's the Window of Joy: post outdoor photos you've taken from inside

[bertha katzenengel]

[LSK]

1. is that a fox?

[bertha katzenengel]

6. Yep.

:bounce: we're extremely lucky/blessed.

[livetohike]

2. I love the fox picture!

Here's one from my computer room window:


edit: I apoligize for the size :-(

[bertha katzenengel]

7. WOW

GOD, I'm homesick.

Great photo!

[livetohike]

15. Thanks!

:hi: It's hard to go wrong when a rainbow is involved :-).

You will be back in SoCal soon, no?

[bertha katzenengel]

23. Yes - in fact, all SoCal DUers are invited to

Black Angus in Fountain Valley at 4:00 PM on Sunday February 19. Just an informal get-together to meet other DUers. Can you be there? There will be others from down South... :bounce:

[livetohike]

47. Bertha, I will try

I have cousins coming either that weekend or the next. They will be heading back up to their home in British Columbia from Yuma, AZ (yep, snowbirds).

If they don't come that weekend, I will definitely try to come up.

[LaraMN]

3. A battle to the death:

Gorgeous pics, btw!

[bertha katzenengel]

8. I'm rooting for the shortstop

What a coupla cuties. :)

[bigwillq]

4. I love that fox pic!

:hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

9. Hey, Big Will

:hug: :hi:

[sundog]

5. nice bertha

the fox is great :D

does he hang out at your house?

[bertha katzenengel]

10. I'm sure there are a few dens around our house.

They come up to eat the cat food when they need it. And once, a fox chased one of our ferals out of the backyard. What a sight!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Here's Mt. Shasta.......in northern California via commercial jet.........

[livetohike]

16. Beautiful!

I spent my 50th birthday hiking on Mt. Shasta. (sigh)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

35. Thanks!

You spent your 50th birthday HIKING? on Mt. Shasta? OMIGOD.....

Good for you!

:yourock:

[bertha katzenengel]

27. wow

and i tho't my lake havasu photos were interesting

it hasta be shasta! ;)

Peggy - 4:00 PM on Sun. 2/19 is the best I can do... can you do?!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. Hi, Bertha!

Indeed, your Lake Havasu photo inspired me to post this Mt. Shasta one...

Alas...my concert will still be going on at that time....

I AM so sorry to say I won't be there.......I really really wanted to be!

It will just have to happen some other time.....*sigh* Damn....

My spirit will be there, though.....:cry:

[Oeditpus Rex]

31. Hey, I can see

Xema's and Vektor's houses from there!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

36. Uh-huh.......

Sure you can! Really? :hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

39. Nah, I guess not

I was thinking that was Redding at right center, just above the cloud, but I compared it to a map and it's probably Weed.

You were going south and the mountain was on your right, huh?



Edit: Right... left... whatever. :eyes:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

41. You are correct!

We were headed south, and indeed the mountain was on my right.....

I got four shots, all of them wonderful.....but this one was the best!

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. Okay, then that is, quite likely

the lovely and fabled burg called WEED... which is actually named after some guy and not our very good friend...





(Boy, I wish that was my hand...)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

43. I was JUST going to ask you.......

Is that your hand?

Aw, too bad it's not!

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. If it were

I'd have a whole galaxy next to my name. Man, I'd own me some Skinner. :evilgrin:

[bertha katzenengel]

46. O.R. . . . what is that plant?

:shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. Our very good friend

cannabis sativa. :hippie:

[bertha katzenengel]

49. okay, i'm a dunce

:dunce: I've never seen a plant before.

Who knew you could shoot it up?!

[Oeditpus Rex]

51. The poster?

Dunno. That could be old-fashioned propaganda, or maybe you can get THC in liquid form. :shrug:

I have that movie, btw. It's hilarious. And it has actual nudity. :wow:

[bertha katzenengel]

52. I was in line behind a couple of kids at Best Buy a couple of months ago

They couldn't have been older than 16 and they had one item to purchase: "Reefer Madness." They were talking about how hilarious they'd heard it was. I told them they heard right -- and it was probably the first thing they were glad to hear from an "old" person in weeks. :rofl:

Thanks for the education. :blush:

[matcom]

12. it's good you feed your pet fox

cats

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. Here's a pic I took last summer of a Canadian Dobsonfly:

I had never seen nor heard of one up until that point.

[BuelahWitch]

18. Was that fly named after James Dobson?

They both look equally nasty! :hi:

[Susang]

22. So that's what those are!

I see those up north in Michigan all the time and they scare the shit out of me. They're positively prehistoric! :scared:

[bertha katzenengel]

28. on "funniest home videos" they had a guy using those for fish bait -- the

larvae, i mean -- and one of them bit the shit outta his thumb. :rofl:

:scared: those things FREAK me.

[Beware the Beast Man]

45. it turns out, they are very interesting creatures.

This one was a female, whose bite is supposedly painful. She was very lethargic- we at the office though she may have just laid eggs and was dying. They don't eat as adults.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobsonfly

[Misunderestimator]

14. Great idea for a pic thread!

I don't have any like that... but this is cute no?



:hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

24. Quite!

Who IS that?! What a cutie!

Teeth chattered outta your head yet? ;)

[Shine]

17. Here's my offering:

Maui rainbow





Ojai, CA sunset

[bertha katzenengel]

29. wow!

those are both wonderful!

this has turned out to be a great thread. i'm so glad people posted their photos here!

[Shine]

30. Thanks, darlin'!

I was pleased with those ones, too. And I'm VERY pleased to have finally figured out how to post pix, after all this time on DU. :woohoo:

I agree, great pix thread idea! :thumbsup:

[bigwillq]

19. Where's that raccoon pic?

I love that one too! :hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

25. just call me the short-order cook of amateur photography

[philosophie_en_rose]

33. That second picture is frightening.

Raccoons are smart and voracious. Very scary to small pet owners.

[barb162]

37. Did you ever give the raccoons sour cream.

I have done that; they LOVE it. Or cookies.

[bigwillq]

58. Thanks for posting the 'coon!

I love him! :hi:

[Xipe Totec]

59. That's my favorite animal!

The Aztec word for raccoon is mapache (ma-pa-chay).

It has two other meanings: 'little hands' and 'thief'

I'm just crazy about them!

[BuelahWitch]

20. I think all these pictures are beautiful

Thanks for giving me a smile today! :hi:

[lumberingbear]

21. No animal, but a beautiful picture for you Bertha!

[bertha katzenengel]

26. wow... lovely

thank you, LB :hi:

wow!

[Robb]

32. I call it "Plow Guy"

[barb162]

38. all very nice. The kittens are adults now?

Cuties all

[bertha katzenengel]

50. If they survived, they are.

We only got one of that bunch spayed, the Tortie, but I haven't seen her in many months. :(

[momophile]

40. I like the kitty pics! Here's a pic of mine:

From a small plane in the South Pacific:

[bertha katzenengel]

53. Holy crap!

:wow: :wow: :wow:

What a beautiful photo.

[Ptah]

54. Here's one, outside a play house, looking in.

:hi: :hug:

[bertha katzenengel]

55. that is a lovely photograph

I hate cliches, but sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words

:hug: :pals:

[Mrs. Venation]

56. Okay

Here are some photos made from inside our house in Southern Maryland.

[bertha katzenengel]

57. Hmmm... I am terribly attracted to women who take tiny pictures of

holly and birds... wanna have dinner with me tonight? ;)

:loveya: