My exciting news!

[cathleeninnh]

The view out my window is beautiful! The bare tree trunks and limbs against the white snow with red brown leaves sprinkled on top and fog obscuring distant objects.

John if you can take such a picture and blow it up to over the couch size, I will buy it.

Cathleen

[Lloyd Danforth]

Better delete that post Cathleen.  The view tax people will visit you!

[Lloyd Danforth]

No, she can do it herself.

[Dreepa]

Saw a wolf (maybe a coyote?) walk across my back yard yesterday.

[president]

Saw a wolf (maybe a coyote?) walk across my back yard yesterday.

http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/Wildlife/Wildlife_Reports/Wildlife_Reports_2004/wildlife_report_013004.htm#Coyote

New Hampshire's Wily Coyote
You may wake up to the sound of coyotes howling in the weeks to come, because February is the peak of the coyote-mating season. Come April, 4 to 8 pups will be born in a den concealed in a brushy slope or under a log pile. The male coyote hunts for the female, bringing her food, which she regurgitates to feed her young. About 70 percent of the pups will die before their first birthday.

The eastern coyote is a relative newcomer to New Hampshire. The first coyote was seen in Holderness in 1944. During the 1970s and 80s, coyotes spread throughout the state. Today, they are entrenched statewide in every available habitat from rural to urban.

Studies by Dr. Robert Wayne of the University of California on tissue samples of New England coyotes found a great deal of wolf blood related to the gray wolf of Quebec. This is why our coyotes, weighing 48-60 pounds, are nearly twice the size of the western species. Coyotes come in an array of colors, from creamy to rust-colored to tawny gray. Their erect, pointed ears and bushy, drooping tails distinguish them from dogs.

Coyotes are opportunists and eat all sorts of things, depending on the time of year. In the summer, they eat fruits and berries, insects and small mammals like rabbits, squirrels and mice. They'll also eat dead animals and prey on deer slowed by deep snow.

New Hampshire trappers have harvested an average of 379 coyotes each year over the past decade. The coyote is the only furbearer species that has a year-round open season for hunting and trapping in the state, but this hasn't reduced New Hampshire's coyote population. No wonder this crafty canid is called "wily coyote!" --Eric Orff, Wildife Biologist; and Dr. Judy Silverberg, Wildlife Educator

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Will Wolves Return to New Hampshire?
The last member of the canid family with ties to New Hampshire is the gray wolf, which now has federally protected status. Two to three times the size of the eastern coyote, the gray wolf weighs up to 150 pounds, though it's about the same length as the coyote. The wolf ranges in color from sandy to grizzled, and has a black phase.

When New England was first settled in the colonial days, wolves were common here. Despised for their habit of killing sheep, they were eradicated over the years. The last N.H. wolf bounty was paid for two killed in 1895.

New England has been hearing more about wolves these days. In 1993, a wolf was killed in northern Maine, and other sightings have since occurred there. A population of wolves lives in Quebec, just 200 miles north of New Hampshire. In fact, a female wolf was killed in Canada two years ago within 20 miles of the New Hampshire border. This winter, a wolf was killed in New York State that had the genetic profile of a Great Lakes gray wolf; officials are still attempting to confirm whether the animal was wild or captive-reared.

New Hampshire, with land that is 90 percent wooded and thriving populations of moose and beaver -- two prime wolf foods -- has many of the right habitat ingredients to support a wolf population. Within the next few decades, we may see wolves return to New Hampshire on their own, and our canid family will be complete once again. --Eric Orff, Wildife Biologist

[Dreepa]

Well.... I was thinking that it was too big to be a coyote. But this article makes sense. Eastern Coyotes are bigger than the ones out west.

[Kat Kanning]

Cool, Drepa

[Pat K]

Was he pulling along a big box that had Acme stenciled on it?

[Kat Kanning]

LOL!

[John]

The view out my window is beautiful! The bare tree trunks and limbs against the white snow with red brown leaves sprinkled on top and fog obscuring distant objects.

John if you can take such a picture and blow it up to over the couch size, I will buy it.

Cathleen

Well thank you very much Cathleen.
I already have some wich are quite like what you suggest and they are of high enough quality to be blown up to "over the couch" size.  But I'm not sure if they exacty fit what what you have in mind.  Maybe one is.  Let's talk soon. 

The season is perfect to capture what you want and, I know of very good places to get these kinds of pictures. 

As always, I'll be keeping my eyes open and camera at the ready.

[cathleeninnh]

Keep taking the pictures. I love tree trunks, snow and just a touch of color in an essentially black and white photo. But I also love the green forest kind of picure. Not so big on vistas. When we moved in and I was searching for decorative items, I found some framed photos online that were clearly out of my financial reach. I still like the idea. I thought of you, John and knew yours were just as good. Over the couch size is something like 20x48. I'm just clueless about how you get pictures that size.

Cathleen

[John]

If you have seen my some of my "Black and White world" photos, you have seen how I capture the deep greens of the forest along with the rusty red browns in subtle (and somtimes not so subtle) combination/contrast with the snow . . .
However, fog requires just the right timing (and it happens infrequently in the right combination/timing) - as I use only natural lighting.

We'lll have some new snow soon and, when it falls, you can be sure that I'll be on the hunt.

[BaRbArIaN]

You could take a digital format photo file to the UNH Printing Services office (West Edge Building).   They print and laminate things that big, tho it could cost up to $120.00  (I expanded a map I've used for gaming there once).

[CNHT]

Within the next few decades, we may see wolves return to New Hampshire on their own, and our canid family will be complete once again. --Eric Orff, Wildife Biologist

Cool!

I always hear the coyotes howling at night out my bedroom window off down in the 'valley' where the stream runs through the woods below me. I have had a large bobcat under the trees in front of my house and moose in the swamp here too as well as porcupines and fishercats. I don't see any raccoons much anymore nor red fox like I used to... but those coyotes are everywhere and have been in my back yard too.

Red foxes seen in the daytime have been known to bite little children...and were rabid...bears have been known to crash into screened porch doors and tear off refrigerator doors looking for food.

[Dreepa]

bears have been known to crash into screened porch doors and tear off refrigerator doors looking for food.

I have been known to do the same thing.