My Best Pictures from 2009--Part 2--Bugs, Birds and Flowers

Here's part 2 of my favorite pictures from 2009.

Sharp-Shinned Hawk that was setting of my picnic table

Red Tailed Hawk

Red Tailed Hawk

Up, Up and Away

Night Hawk

Quail

Young Red Tailed Hawk after a big rain storm

Flock of Turkeys 

Now for the Bugs!

Huge Hairy Spider on my front porch

Yellow Grasshopper

What are you looking at?!?!

Flower Time!

Unknown yellow flowers 

Leavenworth Eryngo

Prairie Blazing Star

Tall Goldenrod

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Josie

My Best Pictures of 2009--Part 1

Since this is the last day of 2009, I thought I would post some of my best pictures that I took this year.

Let's start out with my favorite sunset pictures:

Here's:

Summer Sunset

Big Blue Stem Sunset

The Last One Standing

The Enemy of every Horse

Cross in the Sky

Amarillo Sky

Spider webs across the Oklahoma Prairie

A Little over the Hill

Way over the Hill

Fingers of Light

Stretching on forever

Lookin' down Sand Creek

Tallgrass Prairie Bunkhouse

Porch of the T.G.P Bunkhouse

T.G.P. sign after snow storm

So there's part 1 of my favorite pictures for 2009!
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Josie

My White Christmas

For the first time in 7 years, we had a White Christmas.  And not just a little bit of one ether!
It started out as rain and sleet but turned to all snow.
Here's what it looked like at 2:00PM

At 3:00PM

4:00PM

And the day after...

Lots of BIG drifts!

The water tank for my horses was just about covered by this drift...

The buffalo were hungry after the storm

And so were the deer!

So we had a great White Christmas this year!:)

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Josie

My 2009 Rifle Buck

Well since Deer Rifle season has ended, I thought I might show off what the Good Lord blessed me with this year.  Took this buck on 11/25/09, he was a big 10 point, 152lbs. and scored 172 gross score.

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Josie

Sky of Fire

Took these pictures last night on the way home.  It looks just like the sky is on fire, don't ya think?!  If you look real hard in the first picture, you can see what looks like a cross in the clouds.
The color turned out really good on these pictures, must have had the magic combination right! :)

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Josie

A Lone Oak

I've always thought that this was one of the neatest old trees out here.  It sets on the side of a rocky hill out in the wide open prairie.  The pictures don't really do it justice, it looks so much more majestic when
 you are standing right under it!  Just goes to show that God can plant a tree out in the wide open and it can live for a long time!

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Josie

New Buck

Yesterday evening this buck came in with 4 does.  He is a 10 point with 2 kickers coming off his G2's. It looks like he has been in a fight with another buck and from the looks of the left side of his face, I think he came out on the bad end of the fight!  Here's some pictures I took of him, in the last picture, he was bedded down by our drive way.

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Josie