GOT IT!

I have been waiting for more than three weeks to get a good shot of our Cooper's Hawk who comes through our yard past the bird feeders at least once a day.  When Kay was here we sat often for almost an hour several times, waiting.  But no luck!  Last week I sat an hour and a half  and still no luck.  Birds often come to the same place at around the same time.  So I wait.  Today, Barry called from the kitchen to say there was a rabbit on the patio.  I got my camera out but missed him.  I had just sat down at the computer and laid my camera in front of me when there was the hawk!  I had a perfect view -- through the den window -- without even moving and managed to get six shots!

This is the best of them:

So perfectly posed against the blue sky at the tip of the yucca tree.  

Now to get the rabbit!  I guess the hawk and I have the same plan but different motivations!

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I have done a little more painting in the past week.  This is an ATC ..."Shep"

  This is another of my farm and farmhouse views, that I love to do.  This is also an ATC.

Finally, this is Shelter Cove, near San Francisco which I did for Virtual Paintout.  To join this challenge, the owner of Virtual Paintout determines some place in the world each month and the painter who participates, must choose some view in that general area using only Google Street View, (no photographs allowed) and paint it.  The location for February is San Francisco.  I haven't decided whether to enter it or not, -- some of those who participate are pretty classy artists.  If nothing else it did help me to become familiar with Google Street Scene.