I have three photos that don’t belong to a story, so they are being lumped together. The first I’m calling Foot Traffic on the Deck. The bird feeder was hanging out of sight on the metal stand. I think there are squirrel prints there, too. Surely Sadie’s paw print is not that tiny.
That day I wrote down all the birds I saw for about half an hour. They included Downy woodpecker, red-bellied woodpecker, blue jay, song sparrow, dove, chickadee, tufted titmouse, nuthatch, cardinal, Carolina wren, Eastern towhee, and white-throated sparrow.
Snow fell in Tennessee last week when John was at the train club. Hoping to plow snow, the fellows took out a train with boyish enthusiasm. There wasn’t enough to push around, but they had fun. John was sitting on the end of the work train filled with tools as he took this photo. I’m asking for a round of applause for John, because he rarely uses the camera in his cell phone.
I saw the flattest rainbow I’ve ever seen while sitting at my desk. The morning sun found a chink in the clouds to form this bow. It lasted just long enough for John to get up from his desk in the next room to see it. Our most brilliant, high-arching rainbows occur in the afternoon. Have you ever seen an almost flat one?
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It seemed they were enthusiastic to tackle the task of snow-plowing.
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They thought it would be fun to plow snow, but there wasn’t enough snow.
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The rainbow is exquisite!
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The flat rainbow disappeared in seconds. I’m thrilled to have caught it at all.
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Yes I’ve done this before but forgot to click send.. Age is getting to me and now I can’t remember what I ment to comment. Oh yes..the train…Fun to see. My family had one this size at Lakeview Marina on the Barnett Res. In Mississippi. Kids loved taking a ride.The rainbow must be over the “flat” earth we hear so much about these days. Hehe. Don’t think I have seen that many different kind of birds in my area in a long time. Our birds have just about disappeared.???
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Our children grew up riding trains like that.
I’ve heard people say birds are disappearing. We seem to have plenty here.
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That is a very flat rainbow. Looks like the center part was too tired!
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The flat rainbow had no staying power. It lasted only a few minutes.
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I love seeing a mess of tracks in one place … I usually go out in the backyard to see what interesting things I can see in the freshly fallen snow. Kudos to John and that rainbow is exquisite … I can’t remember the last rainbow that I saw.
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We see a fair number of rainbows now that we no longer live among tall trees.
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That makes sense – I probably should go outside after a rain storm; since all but two windows have stuck metal rolling shutters and I can’t lift them up and those “available” windows don’t look out anywhere but trees, garages and houses, unless I’m outside, I likely will never see a rainbow.
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We now live in a rainbow-rich area.
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Lucky you!
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Amazing rainbow!
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Cool.
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A flat rainbow? I’ve never seen one like that. How fascinating to find out that rainbows can vary in arc-ness.
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I think this rainbow was deflated like a flat tire. Wonder who let the air out?
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Many thanks to John for the train picture. I think we need one of those for the farm – I can picture chickens and grandkids riding it.
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John might say every farm needs a train. We have smaller ones on the front porch.
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Here I have all the same birds and also juncos here for the winter. Nice to see we attract the same species miles apart. I had never seen a rainbow like that either.
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I see juncos occasionally, but none showed up that day. There were lots of them in the winter on Long Island.
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What an odd rainbow! Not surprising it didn’t last. Maybe it just s l o w l y s a n k into the ground.
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The flat rainbow sank from view quickly.
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I have not, but I saw a vibrant vertical one the other day- I had never seen that either!
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I’ve never seen a vertical rainbow, either.
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Ive never seen a rainbow that flat before. How long did it last? Love the photo of the train from the rear…props to your husband for whipping out there camera..:)
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The flat rainbow lasted about five minutes.
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I have not seen a flat rainbow, but recently there was beautiful vertical one at our house. It was straight up and down but quite short. I watched it for probably fifteen minutes. Beautiful!
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A vertical rainbow is amazing. I’d like to see one.
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I like looking at the snow photos … no snow here in southern California 🙂
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I keep snow photos around, because we get very little in NC. No self-respecting snow would disappear on the way to the ground.
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I never saw a flat rainbow. That is so cool! I see the same birds as you in my back yard, except the towhee. We would never see one of them here in the wintertime.
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If there were towhees in NY, I never saw them. Here they pick up seeds under the feeder on the deck.
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