Some Christmas Things

 Our neighbor's Christmas mailbox......................

 Catherine's handmade ornament.................................

Swag on the back porch.  I'm loving this new camera. 
O.K., so this one isn't a Christmas picture but you might like it anyway.

                                                       Blessings, Diane

I Could Hardly Speak

I was thinking about what I was going to blog about tonight when all of a sudden my mind was

made up for me. This afternoon I went with my husband on a service call which was up near

the foot of the mountains. He had just said that I might possibly see elk in that area. Right after he said that he rounded a corner and I just about swallowed my gum,

ELK! Lots of them.............

Enlarge to see them better, this is only part of them

I think elk are beautiful, majestic, almost mystical creatures. When I had the window down taking pictures I could hear them making barking sounds to one another. It's such a treat to see just one or two occasionally but this number! ! I will never see this many at a time in my lifetime. Once in a while my husband really knows what he's talking about!
God bless you, Diane

His Majesty

This bull elk lives a couple blocks away from our house in the city park. My name for him is His Majesty because that's the only thing he is. He's surrounded by a harem of cow elk who seem to think the same thing. In the evening in the fall you can hear his eerie bugle. It sounds so primitive, as old as time itself. It's a wild sound, a sound you might hear when you're sitting around a campfire, with the dark closing in around you. I love to hear the sound of the elk bugling. His Majesty is kind of a baby. He begs passers by for apples and although people aren't supposed to feed them, you can tell they do because he and his harem come over to the fence when you walk by. The females and young ones make an interesting sound too, kind of a whistle or bleating. I wish I could share them with all of you.

God bless you, Diane