Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: interestingness#381

These brilliant yellow flowers are always a delight to photograph - taken in a friend's garden a few days ago. I'm posting really early (for me) today, as I am planning on driving west into the mountains a little way (once I get off my computer and start getting ready). I haven't yet had a chance to get to the place I want to reach this year, even though it doesn't take all that long to drive there. I know I will be fighting to keep my eyes open by the time I get back home, so thought I'd better post my "daily three" before I go. I'm also hoping to give my shoulders a break from the keyboard, too - one is very painful from struggling to get into my backpack for many months, and the other is, I suspect, from too much mouse-clicking : (

No, of course not - just kidding! After walking all morning in -22C temperatures (with a windchill temperature of somewhere around -30C - thanks, George), I called in at one of my favourite spots and was lucky enough to have this male Hairy Woodpecker drop by : ). Though most of me was fine, my hands were so numb yet so agonizingly painful after just five seconds of being exposed in order to take as many shorts as I could bear to take. Why do we do this, LOL???? Oh, and we were SO lucky this morning to see the tiny Northern Pygmy-owl again - the second time this winter.