Some Winter Pics

As most of you know, I have a new camera now; an Olympus FE-46. It has a setting for everything, is rather complicated compared to my last digicam, and I'm obviously still figuring it out. I have to take repeated breaks to give my eyes time to cool off. lol Anyway, above is the first landscape shot I took with it. This is a forest in Hollis near Monson on a foggy afternoon. What do you think?

The next couple of pictures were the last ones taken by my old *sniff* camera. On Sunday, in the foggy morning light, I spotted these deer in Amherst. The one to the left is a doe keeping watch as her twin yearlings graze and play.

The American Toad

We get a great deal of these amazing toads in NH throughout the warm months. The american toad can range from the size of a thumbtack head to an obese sumo-like toad that surpasses your palm in girth. For the most part they are calm and this makes them great for photographs.

This little troll was trying her best to hide under a stick half her size on the Heald Tract Conservation Land in Wilton. She had just finished laying her eggs in an unseen vernal pool and was returning to her terrestrial life in the forest.




And I can't end my tiny tribute to the American Toad without sharing this image I took of my best friend Janna from the same trail taken last year.




No, it didn't work.