It Starts....the Great Rollout.

We bought a cheap tree to place on the back deck for our first decoration for Christmas. In my mind I wanted a ten foot tree loaded with lights the could be seen from miles around. The reality is that it is a six foot fake tree.  We will enjoy it but I wanted to have it there for all the kids to see that live in our backyards. Our second story deck places it up in the air for them to have a better view. I will add a large string of white lights to it to bring it up to code.

It is neat to see the tree from the dinning room window in the evening.  I was exhausted from yesterdays work, so an easy assemble tree was all I could muster up for yesterday. My wife and I had to unfold all the branches but it went together pretty quickly.

I did get electricity to the deer last night.  The deer are wrapped in reflective tape so I don't think I will be able to ever get a good shot of them.

I guess this indoor shot almost made it into the focus category, but light reflecting off of it messes with the automatic camera lens. I am not going to work on the house today, even though the weather is good. I just did too many days of work this week for an old man. I will try to get some chores done around home and maybe a Christmas tree may go up today.

I belong to a group on Facebook that shares photos taken of Iowa things and animals.  The photos I submitted yesterday to that group were very much scrutinized and it was verified by many that they were trumpeter swans. I don't know where they are heading from the highway pond but they are surely gone by now. It was marvelous that I stopped along the highway to deal with making a phone call and to stumble onto this unusual sighting for me. I randomly shot photos not know if the camera was picking up anything but it did.  I didn't have a single bad image. I would like to stop by again deliberately to take a shot of the beaver hutch that is on that small pond.

Thanks everyone for stopping by today.