In addition to finding items on the Winter Scavenger Hunt hosted by Joy and Eileen on our trip, I've found a few around town as well. I think I have just five to find, and all of them are doable for sure. The hardest one has been the robin. I have a photo to share from our walk through the park earlier this week, but all I had with me was my iPhone so he's pretty tiny. If it warms up again (the temperature is headed down for a few days), I'll go back with the DSL-R and try sitting quietly on a bench and see if I have more luck. I'd love to get one anywhere near as wonderful as the bird photos Miriam posts, but I don't have much hope of that!
Here's the "little" robin in Highland Park. Not very clear because I cropped it so much so you could actually see that it was a robin.
As I was driving into the library parking lot the other day, I followed this truck. I pulled alongside and hopped out with my iPhone. The driver was very personable, and wanted to know all about this scavenger hunt. He was fascinated that people in Europe as well as across Canada and the United States were playing along with it. Here are three ladders in one shot.
The driver really wanted me to take a photo of the other side of the truck, so here it is, but not so well composed due to the angle at which he needed to park. I think there were six ladders in total, and he offered to open up the back end where evidently there were even more. I assured him all I needed was one!
I'm still looking for a more interesting chimney, but this one is quite nice on a home that borders the path Debbie and I walk each week on the canal.
And lastly, for today, some outside lights. I took this the second week of January as we pulled out of my MIL's housing development. I was afraid, even then, that most people would have already taken down their Christmas lights. These were particularly nice. You can see my shadow caused by the lights of our car.
I haven't gotten around to creating an album in SmugMug for this hunt, but you can see the earlier collections here and here.
