Once again Free Sunday has arrived. Sorry I missed the Music in Photos challenge Jim. It was a really good one. I was looking forward to posting the guy "Standing on the Corner in Winslow, Arizona", but somehow the week flew by without a chance to dig it out of the archives.

It's your chance to post any of your photo exercises that you have tried and would like to share. There is no theme, rhyme or reason for Free Sunday. It's wide open to your tastes.

From the lake last week end I had a couple of shots that I should have used on the challenges, but since I didn't here'™s my chance.

I love photographing birds, especially cranes and hummingbirds. I could spend entire days just taking pictures of one or the other, OK I do spend entire days just following the sun, shade and backgrounds. These were taken last weekend in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. I forgot to take my feeder in my camper, so I hollowed out an apple, and put the juice in the cavity. Actually, looks a lot better than those ugly red feeders...or at least I think so. I took over 3,000 pictures, and narrowed down to about 75 that I kept, and these are random of those 75... After a few days, the patterns become predictable and one can anticipate where certain ones will hover, and they will keep going back to the same spot after sipping on the nectar. They are beautiful little buggers. Today, sitting in my office, I swear I heard them buzzing around!