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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a house sparrow

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A small brown bird, back to the camera, looking over it's shoulder.

t's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a squirrel

Photo of a squirrel looking at the camera

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a hairy woodpecker

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A woodpecker with black and white feathers and 2 red spots on the back of the head is clinging to a wire birdfeeder that contains a suet block.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: snowdrop buds through a gap in the ice-cover

Leaves and a few buds of snowdrop flowers coming up through a gap in frozen sleet.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: melting ice

The ice from the storm last week is starting melt, re-freeze, and melt again.

Close view of the edge of some ice. There is a small icicle and the edges of the ice are wavy with frozen drops that might become icicles.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a starling shaking off water after a bath.

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A starling on a small branch. The body and legs are clear, the head is moving so quickly the photo shows a blur.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: oak trees

Bare oak trees, snow on the ground, a haze softening the lines of the trees in the background.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: the shadow of a Baptisia bush on snow

A bush with dry leaves poking out of snow. The shadow of the bush is very clear and shows the lines of the branches and the leaves.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: water glass in a sunbeam

A glass with bubbles on the inside. Behind the glass a shadow includes a pattern in light, in front of the glass is a pattern in rainbow-ish colors.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: bird tracks

Bird footprints in a thin layer of snow on a woodgrain surface.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: an accumulation of envelopes

a box containing a variety of envelopes in groups of 3 to 20 identical envelopes. They vary in size, color, and texture. Some are with-wise in the box, some length-wise at the side of the box.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a glass marble

Sphere with white and blue markings in the shape of concentric arcs

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: dry grasses poking through snow

Stems and leaves of dried grass poking up through snow.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a Cooper's Hawk.

We have seen a female Cooper's in the yard so often we have come to believe that one is now living near. This afternoon she sat on the railing near the front door, easily visible from my desk, for quite a while!

The head and shoulders of a Cooper's Hawk. Sharp hooked beak, orange eye, beige and white patterned breast feathers, dark wings.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: an amaryllis

A cluster of partially open red amaryllis flowers on a green stem.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a cookie

A piece of a sandwich cookie: pale pastry on top and bottom with a chocolate layer in the middle. The broken edge shows the fine crumb of the pastry.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a downy woodpecker

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It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a squirrel taking dry leaves into her nest.

A squirrel on a tree near a knothole, holding a bundle of dry leaves in her mouth.

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: snowcrete constructions
Our recent storm started with snow and ended with hours of sleet. This made a "snowcrete" layer between 2 and 4 inches thick on top of packed snow. People are using axes, picks, and heavy shovels to break up the snowcrete. Some are then building with the resulting flat pieces.

A monument made of snowcrete. A horizontal "table top" rests on vertical legs and pointy pieces rise from the table top.

A wall made of flat pieces of snowcrete in the style of a dry stone wall.

A tower made of horizontal pieces of snowcrete

It's time to slow down and admire some pretty things. Today: a squirrel eating hot pepper suet from a birdfeeder

Apparently nobody told him that rodents avoid hot pepper

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