Photos of a mother fox (vixen) & her babies - (kits, pups, cubs)

It is April in northern New York and for the most part it's been lousy weather. A couple of days ago the sun came out and the temperature hit60 degrees son the Better Half and I took a drive down to the lake. We spotted a mother fox and her babies that evidently are living beneath the porch of a lakeside cottage. The creatures were lounging in the sun.

The lake is Lake Ontario. The photos were taken at Wilson's Bay in Cape Vincent NY which is a favorite swimming place of ours.  

Foxes are dogs, according to a google search of the subject.  A females fox is called a Vixen. The young are called pups, kits, or cubs. 

Coconut Cream Pie & avocados for breakfast

Awoke to another miserable April morning here in northern NY.It was snowing. Yesterday snowed and rained. The basement of our home in Chaumont is wet, wet, wet. The sump pump was barely keeping up with the rain flowing in. On a different note I had a great piece of pie and some avocado for breakfast, along with some coffee. It was a coconut cream pie made from scratch by The Better Half for my birthday. It is my favorite pie and the one she makes is about the best I've ever eaten. Other lovers of coconut cream pie that have tried hers agree, it's the best. I also hade some avocados just perfectly ripe for slicing and eating. This afternoon I have guitar lessons at North Country Music in Watertown.

Coconut cream pie and sliced avocado breakfast. iPhone 6 photo by Gary Walts 

Adirondack chairs in the snow at Frink Park, Clayton NY

It has been a long Winter here in northern New York. I snapped the photo presented here back on December 20, 2017. The Adirondack chairs are at Frink Park in Clayton, NY, a village on the St. Lawrence River. I took the photo with a Sony a6000 camera and a Minolta 200mm f2.8 lens. I used the Sony LA-EA4 adapter to mount the lens on the camera.

Adirondack chairs in snow at Frink Park, Clayton, NY on the St. Lawrence River. 
Sony a6000 camera, Minolta 200mm f2.8 lens.  Photo by Gary Walts
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Now it is spring and our region is experiencing some of the worst April weather that I can recall.

Amazing detail in photo made with Sony a6000 & Minolta 200mm f2.8 AF lens

I snapped a water drop falling from an icecicle with a Sony a6000 camera fitted with a Minolta 200mm f2.8 lens. I used the Sony LA-EA4 adapter to mount the lens to the camera. The first photo is full frame. I cropped the the 2nd photo and inserted a detail of the water drop t she the amazing amount of detail in the image.  You can see an inverted image of a tall pine tree in the water drop. 

Water drop falling from an icecicle in backyard of my home in Chaumont, NY.
 Photo by Gary Walts made with Sony a6000 & Minolta 200mm f2.8 AF lens.

Detail of water drop falling from an icecicle revealing a reflection of tree in the droplet. Photo by Gary Walts made with Sony a6000 & Minolta 200mm f2.8 AF lens.