chilly afternoon

last weekend was went for a walk out near the palouse highway.  the light amount of snow that had fallen and the fields and farmlands were very pretty.  

personally I couldn't imagine living out here especially in the winter but it has some great charm. 

the birds were flocking to this tree where the apples had frozen but were still a good food source.  Saw several pheasant and hawks but didn't get any pictures of them.  one because I just had my point and shoot and two it was never ready in time. 

we did run into several dear though.  I never tire of of them.  though I suppose if they were eating my gardens and trees maybe I wouldn't feel the same. 

heads or tails or both

caught this quick shot of a deer checking me out while on a short walk in the woods.  hard to tell that the head and the tail are at opposite ends

this deer was in the parking lot of the hurricane ridge visitor's center with its mom. 

till we meet again

some last few shots from teh olympic game farm.  it was so much fun.


by now we relized to not open the window all the way.  this was the biggest one of the bunch

deer in the headlights look

ever wonder where that saying came from?  well I think this guy knows. hahaha

this was taken at the olympic game farm that I talked about yesterday.  what a great place I tell you if you ever get a chance to go to Sequim, washington this is a must stop among several others that I will tell you about but if you only have a couple hours there stop here.



this is the same photo as above before a bit of level change.  I forgot I was in the car and had the camera on auto and the flash popped up. 

where the deer and the antelope play and.....

anything else that might be around.  hahaha.  the bison range has many other animals to spot besides elusive hiding deer and bison.  like this deer:


and elk:



and antelope



the antelope were car stoppers too as they argued as to when to cross the road (at least in minds thoughts that is what they were thinking)

zion critters

not the best shot these were right on the side of the road and took the shot from the car. there were probably 30 of them out there

deer in the meadow

not sure what type of lizard this is we just called it a blue belly.

ground squirrel. funny thing we see squirrels all day long here but hey are tree squirrel it was fun to watch people's reactions to them. I think they must live where there are no squirrels

deer

Friday we had a visitor checking out what we were doing.