God's Country Continued

Sometimes the photo gods smile on us...I was intrigued by some texture & tone contrast shots with a group of old birch trees (the first image) when suddenly a male Cardinal with full crest landed for all of about 5 seconds to add a nice splash of colour and then was gone. The other image is of my wife and her niece throwing stones off the dock...a storybook moment that was there briefly and then gone, (likewise I added some post-processing Orton effect to give it that storybook feel.)