John's Christmas Camera

Remember the post about my seeing a baby elephant in the pasture?  And the battery in John's old camera died - again!  And I ended it by saying he needed a new camera?  Well, Santa Clause must have been listening because John got a new camera for Christmas.  Here are some of the very first photos he has taken.

Obviously, he couldn't wait for the moon to go down and the sun to come up...  The rest of these pictures were taken out of the living room window.

Every evening for sure, about dusk, the deer start to come out of the forest to feed at the deer corn we put out.

I had bought some oranges at Sam's Wholesale Warehouse (You DO know that Sam's sells "restaurant grade" fresh fruits, vegetables and meat - which is why they are so-o-o-o good compared to grocery stores - or even Wal-mart)  So, back to the oranges...  I wondered if the deer would eat the orange peels, so I put them out with the deer corn. 

In no time at all we had seventeen (17) deer right up by the farmhouse and tobacco barn.

This one's not so clear, but you can see her reaching out to the orange peels to try to figure out what they are.

Can you imagine if this was Rudolph?  How big would his red nose be??

We think this is one of the fawns we saw when we first got to Virginia.  If it is, she's lost her spots, but she's still small compare to the others.  She is directly under the bird feeder, and we thought she might raise up on her back legs to at least sniff the sunflower seeds.  Instead, she spent some time licking the tree (?)

This is a woodpecker who is too big to sit on the bird feeder like everyone else, so he hangs from it instead.  I don't know how much seed he manages to get, but he's there at least once or twice every morning.

John's new camera has a gazillion different settings - including 3-D ! - and it will take awhile to figure out how to get the best shots, but that's what makes "new" fun.  I guess I get the hand-me-down camera, and I WILL get brand new batteries for it.  They're rechargeable, not the "AA" or "AAA" kind, but something specific to that camera.