Baby Bunnies – HELP ME I’M MELTING

June 27, 2017 | Allison

***EXTREME CUTENESS ALERT! If you read this post, you will most likely want a bunny afterward. AHH THEY ARE SO CUTE!***

Ahem. Deep breaths, Allison, deep breaths. Okay. Today I’m going to show you ADORABLE BABY BUNNIES AHHHH! *hyperventilates* LET’S JUST GET ON TO THE PICTURES NOW.

Since I’ve last made a bunny post, they have grown so incredibly much – but don’t worry, they’ve only gotten cuter! Let’s start back when they were small…

Here’s Basil:

And Mulberry:

And Herbert Naninger:

AND GINGER! (Ginger’s “mine” even though we’re not actually keeping him.) Oh, by the way, we found out that they’re all girls except Ginger… so some of the names are a bit weird now. XD

I love this picture!

We like to bring the bunnies inside because how can we not resist holding them as much as possible? Look, Ginger’s eyes are starting to open!

Here’s the proud (and very fluffy) mom, my rabbit Willow.

HA HA this is such an adorable pose. XD

This picture of her feeding her babies just cracks me up…

I took these pictures of Ginger right before we left for vacation. SO SOFT.

AWW I love his little nose!

And just the yesterday I took these pictures with Megan’s camera, because I still haven’t gotten mine to work properly. 😦

OH MY GOODNESS THE FLUFF.

I know this picture is super blurry but it was too funny not to post! My little sister Carmen put Mulberry in a “nest” she made. XD

They can barely fit in my hand now!

It is SO cute when they clean themselves. ♥

BWAHAHA! XD Mulberry squeezed through my flip flop all by himself.

Brother and sister. 🙂

OH MY GOODNESS THOSE CHEEKS.

THAT FLUFFY FACE.

*collapses into laughter* THAT TINY WITTLE TONGUE.

Jeff put poor Herb in his cowboy boot. XD

Heh heh, this looks like a bunny selfie.

They were snuggling up to me. ♥

Ahhh, relaxing.

Loooooook!

Jeff’s expression… XD

Carmen took these last two pictures for me. 🙂

It’s VERY hard not to smile with three balls of fluff are sitting on you. 😀

PLEASE HELP ME, ALL THAT CUTENESS HAS MELTED ME INTO A PUDDLE. And the fact is, they’re practically 50 times cuter in real life, when you can hold them and squish them and pet them. ♥

Did you melt? Do you want a bunny now? And which baby bunny is your favorite? (Hint: the answer is Ginger. XD I’m just kidding.)

***Allison***

BABY BUNNIES!

June 11, 2017 | Allison

AHHHH, GUYS, WILLOW HAD BABIES! 😀 😀 😀 I’M SO EXCITED AS YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL BY ALL THE CAPS! *Ahem* But seriously, they are sooooo cute! I took these pictures a few days ago, and they’re even more fuzzy and adorable now.

There are four bunnies: Basil, Ginger, Mulberry, and Herbert Naninger XD (does anyone get where that’s from?).

DSC_0627 (1280x853) — This is Herbert Naninger. XD

DSC_0635 (1280x853) — AWWWWWWWWWW! (The one on the right is Ginger.)

DSC_0642 (1280x853) — This is Mulberry. (It’s hard to get a picture of black things, but trust me – she (or he) is cuter in real life. 😉

ARE THEY NOT ADORABLE?! They are WAY cuter in real life because they’ve grown since these pictures and they’re so snuggly and soft to hold. ♥ I love baby bunnies so much!

Which is your favorite bunny (so far), and do you have a favorite picture?

***Allison***

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Furry Things

June 4, 2017 | Allison

CUTENESS ALERT! I have to say, these barn kittens are pretty adorable. ♥ Let me show you some pictures and see what you think, sound good?

AHH I LOVE THAT PICTURE! ↑

Peek-a-boo.

♥

Doesn’t she look like a little stuffed animal in the next picture?

Cutie kitten eyebrow whiskers. XD (Is that even how you say it?)

Argh, this one would be almost perfect except for the grass blade across her eyes. 😡 XD

Ah I love that one!

And thus concludes the cuteness. SO NOW DO YOU AGREE THAT THEY’RE ADORABLE? EEEEE! It’s so fun to find barn kittens. 🙂

***Allison***

Feathered Creatures and Speckled Eggs

April 30, 2017 | Allison

Spring is a great time to photograph birds, so I’ve gotten several neat pictures of both birds themselves and nests which I wanted to show you today. 🙂

The first subject is this ADORABLE little golden-crowned kinglet we found! It knocked into a window and we brought it inside while it recuperated. It was so sweet and tiny!

Ahh I love these pictures of Megan holding it in her hand! Don’t worry, she wasn’t squeezing it, even though it might look like that. 🙂

Well hello, cutie! I was so excited to be able to get pictures up close like this. The bird just kinda sat there calmly and posed. (It did finally fly away. 😉 )

Next up we have some geese which I saw one time when Megan and Carmen and I were down at the pond looking for the muskrat that lives there. Last year a pair of Canadian geese made a nest at our pond, but I don’t think they’re going to this year. 😦

And last but not least, we found two killdeer nests! In case you’re not familiar with killdeer, here’s a little information about them. 🙂 Killdeer are long-legged brown, black and white birds, and no, they do not kill deer. XD They’re named that because of their loud, screeching call which doesn’t actually sound much like “Kill deer” to me, but oh well… XD

I think the most amazing thing about killdeer is that they often lay their eggs right in the middle of the road! I’m serious! They just scrape a shallow hole in the gravel or grass, maybe toss in a few twigs, and lay 4-6 eggs right there on the ground. It’s amazing they ever survive… that is, until you try to find the eggs. They are so well camouflaged! Ugh, I know it is NOT a great picture, but I just wanted to get an overhead view to show you how well disguised the eggs are. They’re even more so in real life. 🙂

I think the speckled design is pretty neat looking, don’t you?

These next few pictures are of a nest we found in the grass in a pasture near the road.

Well there we are! Which was your favorite, the kinglet, the geese, or the eggs?

Before you leave, can I ask your honest opinion? Are you getting tired of photography posts all in a row like this, or do you like them? Photography is one of my favorites, if not my favorite thing to post, but I do like a bit of variety in the blogs I read. I have a lot more photography to post, but a lot more of other things too, so please tell me what you think. It certainly won’t hurt my feelings if you’d rather see something else now, and if you’re loving these, that’s great too!

Thanks for reading, my friends!

***Allison***

P. S. OH. MY. GOODNESS. LOOOOKEEEE! I cannot BELIEVE I have over 2,000 followers!! WOAH THANK YOUUUUU! I’m sure I’ll mention it again in my blogiversary post at the end of May, but for now, just thank you guys so incredibly much. ♥♥♥ I am much more excited than that sounded, but I don’t want to go on about it forever. XD

Furry Faces

April 19, 2017April 19, 2017 | Allison

Ohhhh I have some simply adorable pictures for you! I tagged this post with “EXTREME CUTENESS ALERT,” so you have been warned. XD

*Ahem* Violet the barn cat had kittens again! They are the sweetest, cutest things, and very tame too. I only took pictures of two out of the five kittens, but here they are…

kitten 2 (1280x853) — I looove the color of kittens’ eyes.

kitten 3 (1280x854) kitten 4 (1280x853) DSC_1579 (1280x853)

kitten 8 (1280x853) — HA HA! He was getting tired here which makes him have such a hilarious condescending expression on his face. XD

kitten 11 (1280x853) — And there he goes…

kitten 9 (1280x853)

kitten 12 (1280x853) kitten 13 (1280x853)

kitten 14 (1280x853) — I looove this picture! It looks like she posed for this shot. XD

kitten 15 (1280x853)

kitten 17 (1280x854)

ARE THEY NOT THE CUTEST?

Here’s Violet, the mama cat. She doesn’t seem impressed with my photographing abilities… In fact, she looks rather mad at me. XD Maybe she doesn’t like having her picture taken…

Oh, and we found this sweet kitty in the barn the other day! She seems awfully tame for a barn cat, so we don’t quite know where she came from. Anyway, she is such a nice cat – when I was taking pictures of her she jumped up on my lap and settled right in. ♥ I love it when cats do that!

cat 5 (1280x853) — She looks kinda grumpy in this picture, but she was just about to fall asleep. XD

Are you overloaded with cuteness yet? Maybe I’d better stop before you… oh bother, it’s too late.

Oops. XD XD XD

***Allison***

Return of the Fluffballs

January 2, 2017 | Allison

Hi, guys! I’m back with another cuteness overload, starring the little cuties from this post. ♥ Eeeee, they’re so adorable! You may want to take a few deep breaths before you start… XD

kitten-3-1280x853 — Ha ha, sporting that smug look again, are you? XD

kitten-4-1280x853 — Aww, isn’t that sweet? I’ll bet Megan got a cute picture from that. Note: I edited all the pictures in this post including this one, but on some of them you can tell more than others. 😉

kitten-6-1280x854 — *Somebody is* scared. XD

kitten-11-1280x960 — Ha ha, she (or he) looks so funny!

kitten-12-1280x960 — Wow, that is one intense stare.

kitten-15-1280x853 — This is a rare picture of the very skittish black and white kitten. 🙂

kitten-16-937x1280 — OHHHH my goodness! That’s adorable!

*Happy sigh* They are way too cute for their own good. XD Which picture was your favorite?

***Allison***

The Cutest Wittle Fluffballs

December 20, 2016December 20, 2016 | Allison

My brother Jeff found a litter of barn kittens today, so I thoughtfully went down and took some pictures for you. XD Take a deep breath, guys, ’cause THESE KITTENS ARE ADORABLE! Jeff found four, but when Megan and Carmen and I went down to see them, we only found two. 😦 Oh well, they were the two fluffiest ones, so that’s good, right? YES IT IS THEY ARE SO CUTE OH MY GOODNESS THE FLUFF! Okay, I’ll stop screaming so you can see for yourself…

kitten-3-827x552 — AHHHHHHHHH HELP MEEEEEE!

kitten-12-1280x854 — “Help, Mom! Come get me down!”

kitten-13-1280x853 — This is Violet, the momma cat.

dsc_0578-1280x853 — Hee hee, isn’t this picture hilarious? What would you caption this? I would do “Ugh, is he doing the smug face AGAIN? Just because he’s two minutes older than I am… *Rolls eyes*” XD XD

kitten-19-854x1280 — Oh look, a pile of fluff. AHHHHHHHH!

kitten-17-854x1280 — Oh my goodness I love this picture so much! (And if you’re wondering why I’m doing so many black and white photos, it’s because the background was horribly distracting and ugly and B&W really helps with that.)

AHHHH! *Pant, pant* Settle down, Allison. Don’t hyperventilatEEEEEEE I JUST CAN’T HELP IT. Oops.

Was it just me, or do they seem to have that effect on people? XD

I hope you enjoyed this post, dear readers. 🙂 Merry almost Christmas! 😀

***Allison***

P. S. Do you like my new sidebar layout and profile picture? Yep, that’s one of the pictures Megan took in our sisters photoshoot, and then I edited it a bit.

Black Friday Surprises!

November 29, 2016 | Allison

Guys, (or rather girls) I super excited to show you the things I bought for Black Friday! We went shopping late Thursday night and a little bit on Black Friday too. Did you go Black Friday shopping? Anyway, let me show you my goodies. 🙂

A cute backpack, a beautiful ESV Study Bible, and… (wait for it) a new camera! 😀 😀 😀 Woohoo!

The backpack: My old backpack has seen its better days, so I was really happy to find this pretty one at JCPenny. (And if you’re wondering why I need a backpack when I’m homeschooled – I use it to hold my co-op things. 😉 )

camera-2 — Yuck. Not a very good picture.

The Bible: Family Christian Bookstores had a 50% discount off of the whole line of ESV Study Bibles! My old Bible barely had any notes, so I really wanted a Study Bible. And I love this one! It’s beautiful and has lots of footnotes and cross-references and even a few illustrations. (Why why why didn’t I get any pictures of the inside? *facepalm*)

The cover is imprinted with swirly ivy designs that were quite fun to photograph…

And the camera! I’m really excited because it’s my first dSLR camera. 😀 It’s a Nikon d3400, and it came with two lenses – a standard lens and a zoom lens (I think). I might do a review of it later, but for now I’m still learning how to use it. 😉 There are several things I miss about my old camera (mostly ease-of-use), but I do like how this one has manual aperture and shutter speed options! I can’t wait to take some softened photos of a waterfall.

For the rest of the post I’m going to dump heaps and heaps of experimental photos on you, so take a deep breath and do some scrolling-finger exercises before we begin. XD

: Aww, Casey kitty!

: WILLOW FLUFFBALL!

: Oh my goodness this might be one of the cutest pictures I’ve ever taken of Willow. XD

: Can you see the improvement on photo quality here versus my last camera? (Snickers does not look impressed with my new equipment, but he DOES look cute. XD)

: I don’t know if it was the camera or what, but Lily was super scared when I took this picture. She was racing around like crazy!

: I love the blurred background and bokeh here! My new camera is good at that.

: Random chicken. XD (I think I was experimenting with aperture.)

: This photo looks dSLR-ish, doesn’t it? I love how the top is in focus and the bottom is blurred. That’s my favorite. 😀 *Happy sigh*

: Funny Fact: Casey loves this plant. As in, she loves to eat it. XD

: I got a few decent photos in the dark. (And heh heh, I kind of stole this photography idea from my sister who did a beautiful post about it here: https://abarefootgal.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/christmas-light-photography/

: We’re revamping our Schoolroom. This is the Nature Shelf, and more specifically, this is a duck egg in an I-don’t-know-what-kind-of-nest.

: The classic camera-with-its-human picture. XD

dsc_0100-1280x960 — When I turned on the flash it made these little rainbow-y circles appear.

: I really like how these drippy photos turned out. 🙂

: For some reason, I kinda like this one too. I guess it’s the reflection on the stone or something?

: BOKEH!

: In case you haven’t noticed, I l♥ve waterdrops.

dsc_0134-1280x853 — SUPER CREEPY PHOTO OF OLAF ALERT! She has some serious red eye (perhaps because her eyes are already pinkish-red XD). Yikes. That really is quite creepy. XD

dsc_0133-1280x853 — Aww, Liliputian again! I’m pretty pleased that this photo turned out pretty well even though I used flash. My old camera did’t take very good pictures with flash.

Oh my. That was a LOT of photos, wasn’t it? Yikes. Hee hee, I hope you enjoyed this post in spite of (or because of) that!

***Allison***

P. S. I always think of so many things to write for P. S.’s, but when it comes time to actually write them I can never remember what I was thinking… 😦 XD

Bunny Swap

November 15, 2016November 15, 2016 | Allison

I have some adorable news for you…

We got a new bunny! 😀 And we sold another bunny, which I realized I had never even posted about. O.o First, the “old” bunny. We got Pippin on the day we found Willow’s babies, so I guess he was kind of overshadowed in all the excitement, poor thing. He is a New Zealand/Silver Fox mix, and we got him to breed with Diamond, Lily, and Olaf (yes, Olaf is a girl XD ).

Sorry Pippin, I didn’t take many pictures of you.

I love this picture of his eye! You can see the reflection so clearly!

He loves to poke his nose into Snickers’ cage. XD

So why did we sell him? Well I didn’t think we needed him in the first place because we couldn’t sell his babies for as much money as we could with Snickers and Willow. But Megan and my brother Jeff both really wanted to get him, so we did. 😉 Once we got Snickers, we decided to sell him to help pay for Snickers – and also because that would be too many bunnies to keep at once!

Why did we get Snickers? Some of you know that he used to be my friend Mallory’s bunny, but she decided to sell him since she didn’t play with him much anymore. 😦 We bought him to breed with Willow because that was quite a success last time, and also possibly to breed with Clemmie. And also because he is ADORABLE! See what I mean?

SUCH CHUBBY CHEEKS! 😀

So squishy! 😀 Is your cuteness meter filled yet?

*Happy sigh* I love bunnies. ♥

***Allison***

P. S. Speaking of bunnies, did you know that Clemmie hurt her eye? One of the bunnies (we don’t know which one) bit her close to her eye, and now she probably won’t be able to see out of it anymore. *SNIFF* Poor Clemmie. 😦

P. P. S. On a happier note, Rebekah wrote an amazing chapter for WordCrafters! You can read it on the WordCrafters 2 page here. The story is getting so exciting!