This adorable little red squirrel is young. His tail isn't even long enough to keep his head warm. He was hanging around our place for quite a few weeks but like so many other sweet creatures around here, he just upped and disappeared one day. Anyway, on this day, he held this position for the longest time and though it was shot through glass at near dusk, you can still see the forlorn look on his adorable little face. "Where have all the peanuts gone?"
Here's another rather unhappy face. It's the cardboard in which the charger and cord came with a Kobo Arc. Seeing faces in everyday inanimate things is called pareidolia.
The bright eye of a female Hairy woodpecker checking me out through the kitchen window.
It kind of looks as if the walls are bowing inward but that's just the shadow cast by the openings in the side of that lamp, and they're actually on the wall behind it - which ends at that hallway off to the right.
STELLA! She's Frank's sons' beautiful girl.
Laundry never seems to end. And rarely does it catch my eye in an attractive way but I liked the way these towels looked in the sunlight which streamed in through another window.
Don't we get the most beautiful visitors?
More photos coming up soonish.
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And now, without further delay, here are the Posts of the Week. The icon below is yours for the taking if your blog post is named as a POTW.
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YOU'LL SAY "AWWW"
JUST PLAIN ALL AROUND GOOD
New Year's Day 2015
by DJan
at DJan-ity
Lake Roger's Park
by Author R. Mac Wheeler
at R. Mac Wheeler
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IT TOUCHES THE HEART
Lament
by Jim
at Suldog
Coffee, Reflections and Music
by A Cuban in London
at Un Cubano en Londres
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YOU'LL LAUGH
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CREATIVE FUN
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READERS' CHOICE
READERS' CHOICE
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Please drop by their blogs for a visit and leave a kind comment if you have the time. Also, please feel free to add your own choices (for any blog except this one) for a specific blog post in the comments section below, where others can see them.
Thank you
54 comments:
thanks for shining some light on paul's GLORIOUS post! ;)
LOVE that tiny, itty-bitty squirrel!!! OMG! and stella, too. so cute! you do get some awesome visitors! off to go visit some blogs, now!
(the link to cuban in london has an extra dash at the end - might stop folks from finding the post.) :)
Thank you, Tex. Clearly, I don't pay you enough. ;)
Thanks for mentioning my Abstract Lights! They are fun to do.
Love that deer photo!
Number 1 is my favourite, it is out of this world. All pictures are special Hilary.
neat photo of the walls and shadows of the lamp
chilly today, but nice and sunny
That little squirrel in the first picture really touched me. He is so cute. We have lots of gray squirrels, but no others.
Love the deer looking right at you. So handsome!
Something about the towel picture.
Thanks for the potw
Love how you love the light. And that squirrel just looks so downcast.
Thank you, Hilary! It's always a wonderful surprise to have a piece of mine chosen as one of your "Posts of the Week". That it was one wherein I was serious, rather than my usual sort of semi-humorous fluff, makes it even more so. It makes me feel like Curly from the Three Stooges getting an Oscar for portraying Hamlet.
Hilary, I like visiting you, too - I don't wonder that the critters are drawn to you. I see in your former post that you've had cold and snow - so have we here in the Rocky Mountains of CO. I just came home from skiing in it. I love your inside photos of the light and Stella is gorgeous.
The red squirrel....just awwwwwwwww!!!! I hope you went and found some more nuts for him! The deer is beautiful....and I see faces in the swirls in my bathroom floor, and they never look the same. I didn't know there was a name for that! Learn something new every day!
The first and the last pictures just stole my heart right away! And thanks for the POTW! :-)
Stella's adorable!
I wonder if animals we photograph wonder what on earth that little device is we hold up in their presence.
I like all of the photos but the dog's shot is wonderful to see.
"Pareidolia" is a new word for me -- i never realized my propensity to see faces that way had a name.
Poor little squirrel, i want to bring him something! You do get beautiful visitors.
I' smitten with that squirrel, Stella, and your visitor. (why can't I ever spell squirrel right?)
I especially like the squirrel photo, and I must tell you I bought a valentine card for my husband and it says "I am one smitten kitten." Shhh, don't tell him, but I thought you would like the smitten word.
You have the most marvelous photographic eye. I learn from you everytime I come here and am working on trying to replicate the soft romance lighting you find in everything.
I was impressed with your red squirrel. For the first time in 30 years that I have lived here one showed up at my my backyard this winter. I put peanuts out for them. He was the first squirrel that figured out how to get seed from my squirrel proof bird feeder. Just like your's he has disappeared. I hope he is only hibernating and will return.
I think your squirrel is pouting! Great series of photos.
That little red squirrel is so cute it makes me want to squeeze him, but I won't.
Always fun to see through your eyes.
Hehehehe just realised you awarded me (and Isaac) a POTW, WOW!!! Thank you, Isaac will be so happy when I tell him.
Meanwhile, you have posted some more terrific pictures, love the basket of towels! And the little red squilly. Only big grey or black bruisers around here.
And as for your comment on my cake post... when I turn thirty, huh? I WISH!
That one picture is quite the optical illusion.
Sweet photos! Thanks for doing POTW
Seeing faces in everyday inanimate things is called pareidolia.
and thanks for THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALOHA from Honolulu
ComfortSpiral
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I really like the lamp and hamper shots. Doozia dobra.
I know they want to move into my attic and chew the walls but GOSH red squirrels are cute :)
Very nice choices
I've missed my visits to you, Hilary! Once again, I'm trying to get back on track. Happy New Year!
Thanks for teachng me a new word. Your picture is an excellent example of "pareidolia."
The shot of Stella captures my heart this morning because my dog is sick. I wish she'd get back to the happy face that Stella has.
Pareidolia. Thanks for adding to my vocabulary! Love love the lamp/hallway shot--it has the hushed beauty of a cathedral. You really do get the sweetest, most beautiful visitors.
More cool reading to catch up on--yay!!
Squirrels have territories and young ones are forced out at a certain age. So maybe the little one is now off defending its own spot? One can hope.
You do have beautiful visitors. ;) I love the play of light on the towels and the weird shadows in the hallway. Great random shots. Oh, and I didn't know there was a name for finding faces everywhere--LOL!
Stella is a beauty ... so are the squirrel (!!!) and that darling deer ... and excellent choices for the latest POTW
wow. that is a pretty cool effect of the light making the walls bow...ha....and what a cute pups...
hey i know a few of those posts of the week...smiles.
have a lovely weekend!
I'm impressed with the photos you take through glass. I have never mastered that...in fact, I'm pretty poor at it!
Oh that dejected little squirrel. What a precious picture. Love your Hairy Woodpecker too. You really have the wildlife right out your window. Love it.
I thought that little squirrel was blessing his food before he dug in! As always, you do have the best creatures and pics! Thanks for the shout out on my post..you are way too nice! Have a good weekend!
I just want to reach into that photo, scoop up that little squirrel and cuddle him. He's so precious! I hope he's nice and warm somewhere. Love all of the photos but I fell in love with him. Congrats to the POTW!
Very interesting and beautiful pictures in today's post!! I loved the squirrel!
Very interesting and beautiful pictures in today's post!! I loved the squirrel!
If Stella is Frank's son's beauty....I kinda feel sorry for Frank's son.
Great pictures also :-)
Thanks for all your nice notes on this series. I'm also putting them up on Facebook, and have a good number of responses there too.
Granddaughter Zoe: She's typically full of energy and fun, but G and I really worry about her. Alcoholics on all sides and her father a psychopath in for 20 to life. So we worry.
Thank you once again for sharing your beautiful pictures and your POTW choices. You are a blessing, Hilary. ♥
I love that, 'soonish!' Good you are out there in the world, as I sort of hibernate, hermit-like, around here! Put out my achilles tendon, too! sigh.
That is the most adorable squirrel EVER!
I follow Faces In Things on Twitter and it's certainly a day brightener. They'd probably love to get your cord package to share.
Congrats to all the POTWers. That's such a generous thing you do.
Such pretty shots. I really like the one with the hall and the light.
It is always such a pleasant gift to wander amongst your photographs, read the words, breath in and enjoy!
Thank you,
Merisi
Awesome set of pics again. the little cardboard face made me smile. :)
what a beautiful series Hilary!
Thanks for the acknowledgement. It is an honour. especially as it sits next to your marvellous photos. Loved the one of the squirrel! :-)
Greetings from London.
I just love your animal and bird photos. Makes me almost think I can look our my window and see the views of nature that your camera sees!
Joy - more good reads!
Such an eye for detail you have. My favorite this time around is the light on the towels.
great play of the light and shadow, hilary. awesome! and thanks for the potw...off to check them out.
big hugs!
Love that first photo.
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