A painted chicken at my wife's uncle's house.

We're on the periphery of the storm and aren't expecting much snow, although it looks fairly serious at the moment--and the wind keeps blowing it onto my porch. Moni, I'm glad you explained. Loved the manatees I used to see in Florida. Poor things, often cut by boat propellers. I hope something has been done to eliminate or minimize that. A resting deer this morning.

Love all those water fowl! And Annie, my cats are quite drawn to the wood stove too. My daughter Gillian with Whippoorwill Aurora at a Morgan horse show in 1994.

"I cannot imagine why this light house is adjacent to some of the lock in the Panama Canal. " Maybe it's an observation tower or something like a control tower at an airport. The "windows" on light houses usually go all the way around but not this one.