4th of July (late post)

I am thinking of framing this one...

I spent the 4th of July practicing my photography and using different settings on my camera to try and get some decent pictures of fireworks. Pictures at night with light movement i thought would be very hard. but holding the camera steady seemed to be the hardest.

I had some time to speak with a professional photographer recently, and afterwards I realized that alot of it was just taking pictures and then seeing what you have.... HERE'S to a full camera card!

We watched the fireworks with my husbands family, they go to the same place every year sitting next to me was his grandmother, then his mother and last in line was his Aunt Betty.

Foggy Meadow

This is a post purely on the beauty I have seen. Yesterday was one of the first true summer days. and it was followed by the foggy mornings that follow those days. I love the look of fog and how one moment in time its there and then as the sun rises though it how it just vanishes. I love how it "softens" the world and obscures anything except what is right in front of you. You wouldnt even know I have neighbors next door if you didn't know...

So this is a post on Photography. I take a lot of pictures, I rarely practice photography. I hope you can see the beauty in this as well.

Bridges of Madison County

Alright I am a "bridges" fan. It is actually the movie that got me interested in Photography. So it has been a dream of mine to find a covered bridge and take pictures of it.

On my way home from treatment I spotted one. It was way off the beaten path and i just told Steve "oh theres a covered bridge do you think someday we can get there?"

Well leave it to steve he came home and map quested it. and knew where it was. and yesterday it was one of those "get me out of the house before I kill someone" days. So off for the covered bridge we went.

The little boy you see in this shot was riding his scooter with his buddie. as I was taking the shots, all i could think was "How great is your life? to be able to live on a hard top road where all the traffic is going to slow down and stop to see this bridge?" Its a kid's dream!

I don't know if I managed to capture the emotion of being that child, but I know I feel it when I look at it. That might just be because I was there.

Hessleguessle

There is an area around here that a bit of "lore" to it. Mostly that I personally do not believe. but it is a quiet area that is very flat on the top of a mountain. you can get there by car. so we went up for a "nature hike" I dont get to walk in the woods like i used to simply because I live in a valley and to walk up hill it jsut too much. but for an hour i got to wander around in the woods looking at this or that. It was just a wonderful day!

I snapped this Mushroom while i was there and it made me think, Doesn't it look like you could just see and Elf resting on it? HEE HEE

bee

I wanted to try out my camera's macro lens. I think it works pretty good! catching this littler bugger was hard though! he few to a diffrent flower three times before i caught this snap!

fishing

I popped off this snap at yesterdays family reunion. I watched these two boys for quite sometime. Many days I spent just like they did with a pole and an afternoon to waste. Wasn't childhood a great time? It should have been longer.

Afternoon ride

I have found there seems to be nothing i like more lately than a nice long car ride out in the middle of nowhere. I always take my camera, although I dont always have the luck that i had this day!

Here Locally we have a tourist area that I try to see once or twice a year. I normally can't get a shot of anything that i haven't already seen all blown up to a huge size in one of our local restaurants.

But this day, the sky was exceptional and i could not resist this shot.

Shot Gun Anyone?

I got a call from my mother this morning telling me about a flock of turkeys out my back door.

I thought you might like to see them as well.

The full flock was seven turkeys.

If you look you can see the Gobblers beard nearly hangs to the ground.

Red Skies at Night

We have been hearing for DAYS about this huge storm we are to get tomorrow. After freezing temps last month, -23 degrees, and more snow than I could ever want. Another storm is just not news that I want to hear.

So I am hoping that this picture that I snapped last night is a good omen that we wont get any snow. My father & grandfather used to always say "Red Skies at Night Sailors Delight" meaning good weather tomorrow. Lets hope this holds true!