The View Outside the Window
Just wandering about …
On a Jewel Sea – 20150131
It got really cold again … really cold. But the ice, water and light played together to give the illusion of a jeweled beach …
and a Jewel Sea …
Gulls – 20150125
So it was warmish this Sunday and I decided to go to the Hanover Pond … and saw this lonely gull…
Gulls have golden eyes … and then I wandered farther a field due east and slightly south. In this pond, there were gulls everywhere …
Around and About – 20150124
There’s always a study in contrasts when you see gulls and geese together. The geese can get noisy but not so much … but the gulls they’re an energetic bird. The geese glide along the water and the gulls while they can be in the water but they do love to swoop and dive.
And sometimes they just look down
Laurel Lake Sundown – 20150119
So it’s been cold around this area. And therefore, icy. Some of the ponds have iced over and that get’s me to wandering like the birds to larger bodies of water like Laurel Lake. It’s that time of day when the last burst of light on the horizon …
and the birds begin to leave …
and watch as the sun goes down …
Gulls – 20150117
During winter the gulls come in or I noticed them more but I think they like the small ponds and lakes. This one is a little ginger walking on the ice.
The others stand until they don’t I don’t know how they do it. 
The Doings of Laurel Lake – 20150117
Well January is proving to be a chilly month if not snowy. The Lakes and pond have thin (or I think it’s thin) sheet of ice. It warmed up enough for some melt to happen. The geese are taking off from the ice. Amazing I would have been sliding.
This is graylag goose I always think of as the mayor of this lake. Ensuring proper decorum.
And the gulls venturing for a snack. 
And finally the ducks who seem to congregate here.
Evening Tide at Laurel Lake – 20150116
It’s still been chilly and even this lake has ice. The geese wander about and take a respite.
and then they fly away. I know it’s abstract but evocative no? 
Icy Around the Neighborhood – 20150111
It’s winter and it has been cold. Cold enough to freeze the ponds and lakes.
and to create a pond within a lake.
But it doesn’t stop the geese from landing …
The gulls from frolicking
Or this little one searching for food.
New Year’s Day 2015 – 20150101
So it’s a New Year a bright sunny day it’s a bit chilly and has been for a few weeks. Many of the lakes and ponds around here have iced over, but the sun brings some thawing causing some pools with in ponds and lakes. Makes for some interesting photographs.
Hanover Pond – 20141228
Well, I close out the year not with geese but with gulls. They must come inland in larger groups in the winter. They’re interesting birds, more pictures will be taken and you’ll see for now…
They fly and mess with the other gulls.
But this one is pensive, actually I think he was seeing if there was a snack.
The View Outside the Window 