Friday, December 13, 2013

Martha's Color the Season, a Blog Challenge.

On the Wisconsinland blog, Martha posted a challenge, find some color in this bleak winter season. Well that's pretty tough to do up here in the frozen wonderland of northern Wisconsin. When I look outside all I can see from the house is fluffy white snow, leaf-less gray brown trees, and lots of brown, black or gray wildlife. In the back corner of the yard was a spot of color, a bottle tree that Nancy put up this year.


There was a little color outside the front door...


I kept looking for color but all I found in the yard was a single pink plastic ribbon that marks a dead maple tree that I need to take down some day...


I did find a whole ton of color in the garage... a couple shades of blue and a bright lime green....


Earlier in the day there was a young buck in the yard. He was up raiding the squirrel's food...


Not a lot of color, but I wouldn't want to be any other place in the winter time!









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7 comments:

  1. RichardMDecember 13, 2013 at 2:42 PM

    The bottle tree is a pretty nice idea though some may see it as a target practice opportunity. And nice photos of the young buck.

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  2. UnknownDecember 13, 2013 at 3:10 PM

    Erik:

    I liked that bottle tree. Nancy must have known that you needed colour for this challenge

    bob
    Riding the Wet Coast

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  3. Martha December 13, 2013 at 5:42 PM

    The bottle tree never looked prettier...or more important! I even like the pink making tape!

    I was going to go hunting for red twig dogwood branches but that was the opening weekend for hunting. I was convinced to stay put and try another day!

    Good color spotting in a very brown and white landscape.

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  4. SonjaMDecember 14, 2013 at 2:09 AM

    I would just take a look at the Kawi green to get my colour boost. It is blinding, and would be even more is posed in in the snow ;-)

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  5. TrobairitzDecember 14, 2013 at 8:53 AM

    Those are great spots of color in the yard. Well, the ones in the garage are pretty nice too.

    Pretty buck. We have a buck like that that comes around, but one spike is broken off. Poor guy looks odd.

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  6. Coop a.k.a. CoopdwayDecember 15, 2013 at 7:37 AM

    Those bright colors are spice......I'm quite content with the subtle brown differences and shades of white.

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  7. Kofla OlivieriDecember 19, 2013 at 9:20 AM

    I liked the image of the bikes in the garage! lol. So far we had three snowstorms in December in Philly and winter is not here yet, at least not officially. I hate it! lol

    NINJA ZX-14 Motovlog

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