For a few days in a row in December, while I was walking along the snowy bike path to get a newspaper each day I saw a big ol' bald eagle perched up high in a big ol' dead tree across the river. One day I decided to try to get a shot of it with my camera, but of course the day I had my camera with me is the day the eagle didn't show up. (In fact, I haven't seen him since. Hmmm.) But I still managed to get a few fun pics of our snowy winter wonderland.
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| I thought this one looked a lot like a puzzle or a postcard. |
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| Icy river. |
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| Really icy. |
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No eagle, but I did spot a few photogenic
magpies. (I'm not a huge fan of magpies,
but they did make a nice photo.) |
Christmas morning was wonderful and relaxing. We woke up (not too early) and opened presents and stockings and ate some yummy cinnamon rolls. We skyped with the Elwood gang and opened more presents. And then we lounged about a little bit more.
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| Stockings from Mom and Dad Elwood - even Toasty got one! |
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All the loot after it was unwrapped and semi-organized. (It still
looks like this on New Year's Eve by the way.) |
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Toasty may have only been the size of an avocado on Christmas
morning, but he/she got a good stash of fun things anyway. |
In the afternoon on Christmas, we decided to trek out into the beautiful sunshine and enjoy a peaceful hike through the snow on Squaw Creek Trail in Cordillera (
same place we snowshoed last December). There was no one else around and the air was so still and quiet. It was simply gorgeous.
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| Always gotta push over a dead tree on our snowshoe adventures! |
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| Our Vail-style hiking snack. ;) |
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| Yum! |
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| Happy hikers. |
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Gregg took a shortcut on the way
down the trail. |
WAIT. You have a little one on the way!?! That's so exciting!!!! I must have missed the news. I'm really excited for you two. : ) Oh, and a Merry Christmas to you! And a Happy New Year! : )
ReplyDeleteThanks, Anika. Yep - we'll be parents in June. :) We're pretty excited. Happy New Year to you - hope it brings many adventures and good things for you.
DeleteDid you play no-match? That looks like a fun snowshoeing trail, and again, what a way to hike with shrimp and all! I really like the puzzle pic too. We have done three puzzles over the break. They're pretty fast ones, so we're thinking we need a harder longer one.
ReplyDeleteYep we played no-match (which I won, thankyouverymuch). And yeah, we thought we were pretty fancy with our shrimp on the trail. Ha. It was yummy. Yay for puzzles!
DeleteWhat a fun Christmas! And just think next year Toasty will be almost crawling! What a fun year this one will be! great photographs!!
ReplyDeleteAll these pics are so great. It looks like you have a lot of things in life to enjoy, which is wonderful.:)
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