Wednesday, December 31, 2008

08 New Year's Eve




Around Christmas, Phil and I finished terracing the backyard by constructing two garden beds at the top left of the staircase. We were pounding six-foot-long fence posts into the ground, when we noticed a hawk had landed on the fence behind our house.

It sat there for an hour or so, before swooping down into a neighbor's yard. It returned to the fence to eat its catch. We were not only surprised by its size, but by how quietly it dropped into the neighbor's yard and, later, vanished without either Phil or me noticing.

The blue anemone was the first anemone to bloom this winter, and the red is the second. I photographed the red anemone just as it was starting to close its petals for the night.

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