Hunting with Canons

Yesterday, January 1, 2010, my brother, Tyler, and I went hunting. It was a beautiful day, but a bit cold for my liking. Nontheless, we gathered up our gear and went out to go do some shooting. We headed west first to the field behind the stone wall (see map at the bottom of the page). Here we shot several great pictures, including the one of Tyler hunting pictured at the top of this page.

We began on the north end of the field, and then began to move south, shooting as we went. We got several good photos, as the terrain, colors, and vegetation all around were simply gorgeous. The wheat was gold, the sky was deep blue, and the clouds were soft and gentle. It was beautiful.




Then we returned to the woods and got some pictures of the dirt. It was neat because the dirt had been wet, and when it had frozen it had aparently expanded, risen, and formed all these little columns of frozen dirt. Very cool. So we shot that a few times, and moved on.

Speaking of freezing, check out this frozen drop of water we shot. It was pretty neat. Both Tyler and I have gotten pictures of dew drops or rain drops on blades of grass before, but here was a frozen one! It's so intricate with all the little air bubbles inside. God is so creative, isn't He?

At this point we were were pretty far to the west of our house, and we crossed north again to the drive way in pursuit of a flock of Blue Birds, which we don't see to often, much less photograph. This was the first real wildlife hunting we'd done that day. We finally got a few pictures, but most of them were out of focus and blurry. But both of us got one that was acceptable.

After the Blue Bird we photographed a nearby Downy Woodpecker.

And then we were joined by our hunting companion, Elsie. Look at how brave she is, crossing that massive canyon (known to us as the drainage ditch). Heh heh. She is such a funny cat. Well, we headed across The Field in a southerly direction, but didn't really get any more great pictures. But it was a really fun time. It took little more than an hour, with one break in the middle to warm up inside. And by the end, we were ready to go inside and warm up again! It was a beautiful day for hunting, but very cold!