It’s January 12 … some Rhodies working to bloom and daffodils are coming up in the yard – not just sprouts, but blooms Roses are blooming though they look a bit tired / warn out. And a real surprise … while the bugs have had a feast, it’s still blooming or blooming early btw, all…
I short walk yesterday to Alton Baker Park and there were flowers still hanging on, or coming out early – only they would know. clicking a photo opens in higher resolution
and, amazing things to see … dancing pigeons, reflected mill race grasses, oil paint trees and a solitary still blooming flower … clicking on a photo opens a better resolution view
My kestrel persona, Kirby from Cascade Raptor Center, selects her favorite pictures from the blog over the last year. This set of photos are her ‘VERY favorite’ … these she found to be the very best and wants to keep looking at them. Full resolution photos are posted at Adobe – the ‘VERY BEST‘ gallery….
My kestrel persona, Kirby from Cascade Raptor Center, selects her favorite pictures from the blog over the last year. This set of photos are her ‘almost favorites’ … they were good, but not quite good enough. Often, the subject or content was really good, but the photo quality stretched. Full resolution photos are posted at…
The camera can say it better – all taken Mon, 11-17
All week, the mornings were cold less than 40 with wind that made it feel much, much colder. Every morning with headlamp on, deer went back and forth from fields to woods; cars zoomed like idiots. One just barely missed a deer, one car hit another, but the deer survived and ran off. Reminder: Clicking…
T-storms rolled in on Sunday, and then Monday and Tuesday morning, the sunrise was perfectly clear under a new moon. Monday, on the south side of one lake are two farms situated on a knoll looking east … that tree I’ve photographed more than any other tree – it just catches the sun as it…
Nothing like midwest thunderstorms to bring weirdly unstable air, clouds and wonderful sunrises. Before the sunrise, a few clouds, and a sliver of a moon … As the sun rose, different clouds rolled in and the sun went back and forth behind them. As it came above the treetops, the redness followed And then, …….
When you wake up in the morning just unwilling to drive a long distance, Spencer Butte is just so close … especially worth considering after recent rains softened up that hard gravel path. Alpine Trail and Hardesty Mt were discarded as too far to drive … I crossed the Mt Baldy meadows without a headlamp…
