Ducks and geese and snowy mountaintops

 Hi, it's Thursday in Black Mountain NC! And this series at Lake Tomahawk is from the day after our snowfall on Feb 2...so these photos are from Feb 3.

The water was flowing into the drainage channel.

This had been my first choice for the header...until I checked it when it was enlarged that much...and it seemed a bit fuzzy.

The ducks had decided to stay out of the wind. This is where they usually come to snooze after their morning feeding.

There were quite a few Canada Geese and Mallards that morning!

I'm including my header photo here, because in a few weeks I'll be changing it (after all, I know something else will come along that's of interest) and I don't want to lose it. I do delete the original photos after I post them to the blog, but still have several thousand saved in my computer's "Photos" file.

So why did the geese and ducks take off across the lake at that time? A family with a child was on the other side, and they started tossing some food out. These are wild fowl, but have been around here long enough to know that's a good thing, any time of day!

Today's quote:

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.


—John Muir