As we sat iced in and watched the birds eat seeds, I took pictures. I managed to get shots of most of the menagerie. The iNaturalist app helped me with identification.
I did not get photos of the titmouse, or the blue jay, or the crows. The jays and crows kept their distance, but the titmouse were all over the feeder, so there wasn’t really a reason they did not make the roll.
I did stop to take a pair of pictures of foot steps in the snow while I was out checking on the chickens (they are fine, cold, but fine). These are the stereoscopic photos, in parallel view and cross view (which I still can’t see).
These don’t have the depth I’ve achieved in other photos. The vast stretch of white probably doesn’t help. The photo really gets interesting in the top third. Hm.
This is a Texas “snow” drift. My weather app says we received 10 inches of snow. I think that maybe, if this were small fluffy flakes instead of ice pellets, it might be 10”, but it is not. We have maybe 2 inches overall of hard pack. Yuck.
Yes, that is a solid mound of ice, after I took the picture, I tested.
Izzy the calico cat is kept indoors, except for the catio. She is allowed in the yard under supervision, but is not allowed outside the fence. She protests to this gilded cage, but she is an urban princess and not prepared for the things that live in our woods. Still she tries, and did manage to slip out the door when I was distracted. I only found out when I let the dog out and she came sauntering back in covered in dust. She was quite pleased with herself. When I checked the trail cam, there were photos of her adventure, all the way out behind the chicken coop.
The pictures didn’t show any encounters with other critters. The series stopped after the one where she spotted another cat.
This gave me a chuckle when I looked at my phone. It isn’t perfect, but the AI attempt was surprising. My lock screen is set to show random pictures of my kids, and usually the program stretches the numbers and tucks them behind the head of my eldest, who is tallest. I enjoy seeing the different presentations of the current time digitally inserted into glimpses of past times. On this particular grab from the folder of the past, the app floated the numbers way above my kids’ heads (not shown because I don’t post their faces on this blog), but dimmed the bottom corner of the number zero to show the head of a giraffe statue. The way it chose to not reveal the neck and just one ear makes the giraffe look like it is putting its head through the number. Ha.
Critters and Craft 