Christmas Card with Snow

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Folks:

Just to demonstrate I used article from here exactly as presented to create the snow.

CC's welcome and always appreciated

Keep smiling

Uncle Gus

BTW: The card printed out beautiful using my card tutorial

[denise ippolito]

Thanks Gus! I also put a link in the Weekly Theme Sticky above. Nice job w/ the snow.Looks good and adds a bit of winter to the card!!

[Arthur Morris]

Looks loverly but my brain is having trouble accepting a trogon in the snow...

[Julie Kenward]

It does look a little "tropical" from the bird's standpoint but I love the colors, Gus. It's always nice to have that punch of color in the winter time.

[Gus Hallgren]

Elegant Trogon in snow: Madera Canyon


Having struck out many times on this bird, I managed a late afternoon hike Sat. Feb. 7 in Madera Canyon after a business trip in Tucson this weekend. In the rain/snow I happened to catch a male Elegant Trogon out in the open for about a minute while looking down toward the canyon from the scrubby oaks on the trail on the south side. I wish I had some photos to show, because the experience of seeing this tropical bird on a snowy mountain in the US was surreal.

some other noteworthy birds present:
Brown Creeper
Townsend's Warbler (2)
Mexican Jay

Also seen today in snow , , , , ,

[Arthur Morris]

I figured that that might have been the case....