Two robins in Dogwood tree... Blizzard of Feb 5-6, 2009

As mentioned in an earlier post, the robins came by the hundreds to visit my holly tree for the berries... these two were taking a break in the dogwood next to my holly when I caught them on camera. Their attitude seems to be saying... what's with all this snow anyway?

The forecast for today is for MORE SNOW (our fifth winter storm) and it may drop as much as 10-20 inches overnight into Wednesday. I love snow but even I am tiring of it now... shoveling over 2 feet of snow from the previous storm has about worn me out!

Female Cardinal in Dogwood... December 2009 SNOW!

Another one from our record breaking snowstorm... birds visiting my garden included cardinals, house sparrows, house finches, starlings, Carolina wrens (saw three at the same time), blue jays, robins, juncos, mourning doves, chickadees, red-bellied and downy woodpeckers... think that is all. Some came for the holly berries and dogwood berries (although most dogwood berries were gone) and some came to the feeders and cleaned me out!

Spring beauty... Dogwood blossom beginning to open...

Just realized I never posted this spring photo of a dogwood blossom starting to open because it was taken well before I started this blog. This image is already framed and ready for my photography show in February... now if I could just figure out the rest of the images! (counting this one, 12 down and another 20 to 25 to go)

Fall is here... my Dogwood shows the promise of spring to come!

I started a dogwood project album on Flickr in the spring... then summer came... and travel happened... and I didn't shoot many pictures of my dogwoods over the summer. Now that fall is here, the leaves are changing and I'm once again inspired to capture the changing moods of my dogwood trees. I like this shot because of the brilliant orange-red of the leaf in the foreground and the slightly shadowed bud that will bring spring beauty in the form of the lovely dogwood blossom!

Fall brings the promise of spring to my Dogwood...

I started a "Dogwood Project" in the spring and posted daily photos of my dogwood on Flickr as the buds gradually opened, flowered fully and then faded away as the leaves appeared. But as spring turned to summer, other interests intervened as did a lot of travel and I neglected photographing my dogwood until recently when I noticed that the fall colors were turning the leaves... and buds promising spring beauty had already formed!

Dogwood Project photo... berries for the birds come fall...

In late winter, I decided to take at least one photo a month of my dogwood tree... for awhile this spring, I was taking a photo a day as the blossoms gradually opened to full flower stage and then gave way to leaves emerging.

Other subjects have since captured my interest and it suddenly occurred to me today that my dogwood has been neglected... so here is the latest photo for your viewing pleasure. The entire set of Dogwood Project photos is available on Flickr.