Feeding time

Turtle Lake Part 2

It was a beautiful day, and the sky reflected so pretty. It's pretty barren of leaves now... the high winds we had in the beginning of the week took care of that. I like the color contrast in this photo. It's such a peaceful place. I'm looking forward to winter walks to see how the colors change.

Swans. There are 2 pair that I know of now, at the Forest preserve. I got several pictures, but some are better than others. It's hard to catch them through the trees sometimes and my camera has a semi-nasty delay on it. They had their wings all puffed out like this - before the territory fight. I wish I'd gotten a shot of them flying out. I had no idea they were that LONG!

It's the Berries!

I have no idea what they are - but the Forest Preserve was loaded with them. And some red ones on some bright yellow-green leaves. (that pic didn't come out!)

I like the contrast here - as it was approaching dusk, the background took on this purple cast, with the purpley-red veining of the leaves and the fading greens. It's just fun color.

Turtle Lake

This is a shot of Turtle Lake. It's in the Will County Forest Preserve system and backs the Lake Renwick project - where there is an awesome blue heron rookery. If you look really close there's a pair of swans a little right of dead center of the photo. I found 2 pair of white swans yesterday (among the millions of Canadian geese).
You can see how the drought has really affected the water lines here. The lakes are very low.

The county turned this land into a Forest Preserve after it was dug out. It used to be a quarry.

Smokin' fences?

Ever seen a fence smoke? It was a frosty morning, the first real hard frost we'd had (last week or so ago). The sun came up and was hitting the fences, and the temperature changes - had it fogging off the fence. It was too cool to pass up. Just weird and different, just like moi. ;-)