PhotoHunt Theme: Ruin(ed)

"RUIN(ED)" is the theme this week.
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Every year some birds try building a nest on the beam in front of our garage door. Usually when my husband notices that they have started building, he takes the nest down. This year by the time we noticed it, the bird had already laid eggs so he left the nest alone.
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Unfortunately, one day when I opened the garage door
I found that the nest had tipped over
and the eggs were all RUINED on the driveway.

It was such a sad start to my day...On a happier note, my husband's grandparents lived on a farm in Iowa.
My husband and his brothers and sister loved going there as kids.
His grandparents are no longer with us
but I took these pictures the last time we visited.
The building on the right was the chicken coop
and on the left was the outhouse.
The chicken coop didn't seem to be too RUINED...
But close up you can tell that the outhouse was definitely RUINED!
In 2007 we had a big ice storm here in the midwest.
Luckily, we didn't lose any trees or have any damage at our house.
We drove all around to see the ice covering everything.
We ended up at Lone Elk Park and drove through there.
So many trees were RUINED by having too much heavy ice on their branches.
We found a herd of bison walking around
the RUINED tree branches.
The adults didn't seem to notice all of the RUINED branches.
They were only interested in foraging!
But this cute little baby bison was fascinated
with one of the RUINED branches!
As were were driving out, the fog suddenly came back in.
With all of the ice and RUINED branches,
the park was still lovely.
But too much ice RUINED a lot of tree branches. ~~~~~
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