Gee, I'm really starting to get attached to your writing Steve ....thanks...love the words...the pic.

I'm feeling like that robin looks... sitting here in my room at the Hilton in ATL, waiting to see Bob from AR and all the gurus who will be at the RE TECH South event today.... then I will get my bearings!

Steve - He is so beautiful, stately... I can smell the spring air...

Steve--I was always excited to see the first spring robin until the weather guy decide to tell us that many robins winter in MN now as our winters are milder. Of course this was a weatherman and they are not always right are they? The big storm passed us by today...yeah! Hope it goes by Milwaukee as well as I hear you guys have had more than your share. :)

"Even if it snows again". We were blanketed last night and I trust all the little guy who's been frantically nest building are hole up somewhere warm...burrrr. Turn your back to the wind and weather out the storm...good advice ;-)

Susie - Enjoy the ATL! I know you have a lot going on, but RE TECH SOUTH is gonna be great!

Steve

Marzena,

It DID smell like spring yesterday - and we have two inches snow right now!  ...durn it...

Steve

Yo TERI!

...okay, you dodged this one. I have to shovel in about a half hour. w0w. We got the blast.

I just wanna see the sun!

Thanks for stopping by,

Steve

Colleen!

I was out looking for him and his mate - they usually nest under our deck out back, but they didn;t even get a start. The tend to hole up in the pine trees.

I was just glad to see them back!

Steve

Sally!

...well, thank you very much. I just try to put a little life into it.

It's all out there. We just have to stop and look.

Best Regards,

Steve

Wow Steve, what kind of camera were you using?  It has great clarity.  You may try to tell me the photo is great because of the operator instead of the tool. :)

The robins distinct instinct

Makes them live a destiny of their choosing

Even though today it did decide to snow

They are here to stay

Following their hearts, they will not go 

Around here, a lot of th ebirds stay through the winter so they do things a little different.  The cardinals have brightened their reds up, the gold finches have gathered in the yellow of the sun, the blue jays have taken all th ebright blue from the sky, the red tail hawks must have been playing in the red clay as their tails are much more visible, the canadian geese are more striking as they sit in the grass by the pond, and finally the mallard ducks have already figured it out as they are the very first to show off their family with 12 ducklings swiming around mom.  The geese are sitting on a nest in the grass and the rest of them are getting brighter so the can catch the best of the best and get thier family started.  I just love the spring.  Even the flowers are showing off.

Latonia,

Thanks for  the compliment!

In my other life, I spent over twenty years behind the lens - that is some of it. :)

The photo was shot with a Nikon D100, Nikkor ED-IF 80-200,, zoom lens, ASA 200, JPG Fine/Large file (8 megs) captured and tweaked in Photoshop Elements 4.

...if you love taking pictures, you can only love it more and more!

Keep Shooting!

Sateve

Rebecca!

...what a great verse - I can hack out a few good lines and snap a good pic now and then, but poetry?

No can do!

Thank you very much for contributng!

Steve

Wayne!

... I can take apicture, but you can paint one with words!

All of these feathered friends roost in your yard, or nearby-what a joy!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Steve