Our World Tuesday: Saturday

Saturday morning I had an unexpected family of four visit my deck.

I live in a residential neighborhood and didn't know there were any foxes in the area. 

I was quite surprised that 2 adult and 2 much smaller younger foxes came to my deck for a drink of water and to eat berries off the vines.

After that we drove about an hour east to Wilber's Barbecue for lunch.

I would have been much less surprised if there were foxes in the rural areas we drove through than to have them arrive on my deck like they did.

Although I imagine the farmers wouldn't have been as pleased to see the foxes as I was.

This was my first time eating at Wilber's barbecue. We usually stop at a place a little further southeast on the way to the beach for barbecue.

Bill had read an article about an older man who has been the cook at Wilber's for a long time and was going to retire soon.

He suggested we drive to Goldsboro to eat there Saturday before the cook retired.

It was definitely a busy place between the vegetable stand out front and the restaurant inside.

The cook uses a slow cooking method out back over oak wood embers.

In the back of the parking lot there was a large cornfield.

At the far end of the parking lot there was a large flower stand.

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The Weekend in Black and White: On the side of the road

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SkyWatch Friday: Clouds colorring my word

It's a good thing I love clouds because we are getting a lot of them daily.

Below the clouds in the next shot I spotted the moon.

I zoomed in on the moon for the next shot.

After a downpour the sun came out shortly before setting.

That happened last week too.

It always catches me by surprise to see a colorful sunset after a rainy afternoon.

There has been a lot of variety in the cloudy skies.

I snapped the last shot while I was driving but there wasn't very much traffic and I didn't look at the viewfinder. I clicked the shot and hoped for the best. My camera was around my neck so I didn't have to hold it.

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ABC Wednesday: X

I spy an X with my little eye.

I did a similar X post once before except I'm using different photographs.

You can probably tell I spotted these X shapes in different seasons.

The final shot has an X made my trees crossing on the left (top half of shot) as well as the ones on the bridge.

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Our World Tuesday: Singing in the bath

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The Weekend in Black and White: A people watching pigeon

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SkyWatch Friday: June 1 through June 19 in Central NC

The first week of June I skipped SkyWatch Friday because I was going out of town.

Last week I used shots for SkyWatch Friday that I took when I was in Manhattan.

This week I decided to look through all the sky shots I've taken so far in June at home and work.

In a way I was surprised by how many sky shots I've taken this month.

We've continued to have a lot of rain and gray days.

But we've also had partial clearing and a few sunny days each week.

I feel like a broken record because this pattern has been going on for several years.

I recently heard on the radio that all of North Carolina has had above average rainfall and none of the state is currently in a drought.

In terms of the entire state I know parts of the state have had droughts in recent years.

In terms of the triangle area of NC where I live, I think it's been almost 4 years since we've had a drought.

Hard to believe because the last severe drought we had went on for a couple of years and I didn't think it would ever end.

That prolonged drought is part of the reason I don't mind rainy days even though lately we've had more than our share of rain.

The sunset pictures that follow were a surprise.

We had a downpour and I'd shut my blinds for the night.

I hadn't realized the rain had stopped but I noticed that my blinds were changing colors.

I was glad I raised my blinds and caught this dramatic sunset.

I've had that happen before. I'll think it will keep raining and be gray but I'll catch a burst of color hitting the blinds and I raise them.

Some of my favorite sunsets are ones I almost miss because I've pulled down the blinds during an afternoon rainstorm.

I love the way the clouds can paint the sky.

 I guess the plus side of sky watching when there is a lot of rain is usually once it clears there are interesting clouds.

Sometimes the interesting clouds will be against a blue sky before the sky turns dark and a storm moves in.

Whatever way it works out I do love cloud formations of all kinds.

It's probably because I like variety and clouds often offer an endless array of variety.

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