Alison Meier's photos with the keyword: trees

There's a small house next door to our current park up spot and Matey lives there. He is a good guard dog and constantly watches the world outside in protection mode. I like the way the shape of the gate is reflected by the shape of the trees around it.

I looked out at that same tree this morning and it was swarming with wax-eyes. These fragile wee birds disappear if great, gallumping sparrows come near. The wax-eyes were my original "hope for" yesterday, but they quickly flew away when the sparrows arrived. Wax-eyes are hard to catch - they move very quickly and "flitter" their wings often when feeding, like babies. There was a bit more light today, and less noise than the sparrow image yesterday. This wee one stayed on the apple long enough for me to catch her. Notice that the apple is much more hollowed out than yesterday and there is some light shining through the skin. Creation date: 2/07/2010 12:11 Camera: NIKON D80 Focal length: 230*mm*(equiv. 345*mm) Aperture: F5.6 Exposure time: 1/400" ISO speed rating: 400/27° Program: Aperture priority Metering Mode: Center-weighted average White Balance: Manual Flash: Flash did not fire