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This is Page 1 of 1 - the best of January and February 2022!
posted: February 28th, 2022

This page begins with January 14 and a walk up the hill from home to the top of Gettinger's Field.  Then there are some snow photos around our property, another walk up the road, some sunrise colors, and finally some shots of a January 30th Aurora Borealis display.  Then we enter February with some Moose (Alces alces) wandering around on our property.  In the final row are some photos of our houseplants and flowers.  Click on any thumbnail to begin.

Begin January Photos
  The first shot in this row is the view from the top of Gettinger's Field looking south to the Alaska Range. The center shot shows a moose lying on the edge of the woods chewing its cud. The third shot was taken the following day from about the same spot as the first photo.
Jan14_2_WalkFromHomeRC
Jan14_2_Walk
FromHomeRC
Jan14_3_WalkFromHome_MooseRC
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Home_MooseRC
Jan15_4_WalkUpTheRoadFromHomeRC
Jan15_4_WalkUp
TheRoadFromHomeRC

  These three shots were all taken from our own property. The first image, a two-shot vertical panorama is looking south from our front porch. The second and third shots show how much the snow has settled since the huge snowstorm of late December.
Jan23_1_2_AutoPano_SnowScenesAtHomeRC
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ScenesAtHomeRC
Jan15_1_SnowSettlingAtHomeRC
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SettlingAtHomeRC
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ScenesAtHomeRC

  Here is another shot which shows how much the snow has settled since late December. The center image is another two-shot vertical panorama looking up our driveway. The third image is a two-shot panorama taken from the top of Gettinger's Field, near our home.
Jan23_4_SnowScenesAtHomeRC
Jan23_4_Snow
ScenesAtHomeRC
Jan23_7_8_ATSIP_AutoPano_SnowScenesAtHomeRC
Jan23_7_8_ATSIP_AutoPano
_SnowScenesAtHomeRC
Jan24_3_4_AutoPano_Rotate_WalkFromHomeRC
Jan24_3_4_AutoPano_
Rotate_WalkFromHomeRC

  The first shot here was taken as an iPhone Panorama, and is again looking across Gettinger's Field. It's very similar to the previous shot, but not the same. The center image is a sunrise time photo which has been adjusted to bring out the colors better. The third image is the same as the center one, but it has been HDR (High Dynamic Range) processed using Photoshop®.
Jan24_GettingersFieldPanoRC
Jan24_Gettingers
FieldPanoRC
Jan30_1S&H_SunriseTimeRC
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SunriseTimeRC
Jan30_2HDR_AT_SunriseTimeRC
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SunriseTimeRC

  Here are three shots of the Aurora Borealis which were taken from our driveway with our "iPhone 12-mini" cameras.
Jan30_2_iPhoneAuroraRC
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iPhoneAuroraRC
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iPhoneAuroraRC
Jan30_4V&S_iPhoneAuroraRC
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iPhoneAuroraRC

End January Photos, Begin February Photos
  On February 7 I looked out the window and saw two moose walking down our driveway. Were they coming for tea and crumpets? Oh dear, we had none, so we hoped not. This winter the snow is so deep that they are sticking to the plowed roads and paths more than they usually do, and there have been several reports of aggressive moose this winter due to this deep snow and the resulting difficulty in obtaining food. We took all of these photos from inside the house.
Feb7_01_MooseInYardRC
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InYardRC
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MooseRC
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MooseRC

  Here are three more moose shots.
Feb7_02_MooseInYardRC
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MooseInYardRC
Feb7_05_MooseOutWestWindowRC
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OutWestWindowRC
Feb7_05_MooseInYardRC
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MooseInYardRC

  They walked the cleared path to our storage shed and stepped off into the deep snow there, but the leader decided he didn't like it and they both came back.
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MooseRC
Feb7_11Crop_Adj_MooseOutWestWindowRC
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MooseOutWestWindowRC
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MooseRC

  As you can see in these three photos, they walked back up the driveway partway and then went into the woods where there were a good bunch of birch and aspen saplings they could eat the smaller twigs from. In the center photo, it is moose #1 which did not walk down the driveway earlier, it just hung out in the area shown here and ate. After moose #2 and #3 browsed the saplings for a while, they laid down for 2 or 3 hours and spent some time chewing their cuds. Moose #1 just wandered off and disappeared.
Feb7th_105_MooseRC
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MooseRC
Feb7_28Annotated_MooseInYardRC
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MooseInYardRC
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Feb7th_136_
MooseRC

  Here is a February 20th two-shot panorama looking east from our porch. The second shot is a Hairy Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus) hammering away at frozen unsalted butter. With the kind of cold we have here, this butter freezes as hard as can be and the birds stop by and peck off tiny chunks at a time.
Feb20_02_03_ReposPano_EastYardSnowRC
Feb20_02_03_ReposPano
_EastYardSnowRC
Feb22_5_HairyWoodpeckerAtHomeRC
Feb22_5_Hairy
WoodpeckerAtHomeRC

  In first position is a collage of our house plants which I created on February 14. It shows our Jewel Orchid (Ludisia discolor), Christmas and Easter Cacti, an Amaryllis and the current flower arrangement on that date. The center image shows the history of our Amaryllis plant and the third image shows the Amaryllis and the Jewel Orchid on February 21.
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Feb2022RC
Jan30_4Feb6_1Feb13_7Feb20_6_Amaryllis2022SmallRC
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Feb20_6_Amaryllis2022SmallRC
HousePlants_Feb21_2022RC
HousePlants_
Feb21_2022RC

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