Fairy Dust Balls Join the Pond Scape

A gift from my son, three Fairy Dust Balls have joined the yellow-green and orange Humming Bird feeders hanging from the bare limbs of the tree. The Humming Bird feeders don't work very well as feeders but they do add some color to a very colorless time of year. The Fairy Dust Balls are suposed to absord energy from the sun and glow for a while after dark. Tomorrow they should get a good test as the weather man is calling for temperatures close to 70 degrees. In the near background are yellow and red twig dogwood trees. These two trees were also added to provide a little color in the winter. This afternoon I picked a bunch of leaves that had collected in the pond. Luckily the water temperature was 48 degrees up from 38 degrees at it's low a couple of weeks ago.