I went down to the lake to catch the 13th and last full moon moonset of 2012….
And while there, I found a sunrise….
and tranquility at the water’s edge….
And to my surprise, I happened upon a pair of coyotes roaming about….
They seemed as curious about me as I was of them.
Over the years, so many times nature has impressed me….
How at times she can raise her head and get your attention….
And other times, she blends in so well with the rest of her creation….
The 13th and last full moon of 2012 is also referred to as the “long night’s moon” being the full moon closest to the winter solstice….
With the help of simple post-processing, one can get a warm glow to a cold winter’s full moon….
Or it can take on a cool-ness look (but know this is not a true “Blue Moon”)….
But enough of the astrology lesson – here the leafless Cedar Elm is silhouetted by the brightness of the moon….
As is the Crapemyrtle
I pulled out my collection of morning walk fall color leaves this evening and tried to be creative….not!
Why, of all things, would this remind me of a chocolate commercial?
Last one….four (4) different types of tree leaves in this bunch. Can you name them?
40 mph wind gusts yesterday blew all of the leaves off the neighbors’ trees…into only my yard I swear.
…and sometimes the wind created a leaf conglomeration wind row in the street gutter…that too in front of my yard I might add.
Or maybe it was that some of those leaves were shed because our neighborhood lost a couple old friends this week, and our own “spit” of the urban forest mourned their demise….
A bit late for the sunrise, but the fog was still lifting off the lake surface on this, the coldest morning of the year
Coots making ripples along the shoreline….
My Heron buddy was waiting for me…again
A Bluejay sizes up his perching options….
A water-air temperature-difference (they probably have a name for that) foggy shoreline
Fishing at sunset….
Fishing ripple effect….
This morning’s light….
This evening’s light….
Almost dusk – kind of looks like an oil painting, huh?
A slow shutter speed and a shaky hand gives an interesting light to a holiday display….
The Zoe-bird….
Crapemyrtle fall color….
If I remember right, this is that chirping Mockingbird that usually wakes up before me each day….
“That” bug on the Coleus….
A volunteer Red Oak shows off it true colors (and “that” bug sure gets around)….
Watering the near-dormant garden….
Good morning my young Heron friend…I’m watchin’ you watchin’ me watchin’ you.
1949 Ford F1 pickup…a beauty of a truck
Can you read my handwriting? (Please, no analysis – this is why I mostly type these days). These are a few notes from this morning’s time management seminar (that I was late to….). Inspired?
Sometimes you CAN find a bit of fall color in north Texas….
Calling it a night….
The last glimpse of sunlight…
Yard lights reflect across the cove….
The guard shack at night….
When you combine a level horizon, dusty skies, an oil rig, and nice sunset timing…well, you get this.
After watching the sunset from a high ridge line southwest of town, Dad and I find this installation of unknown reason, purpose, and use. Does anybody know what it is that we found?
Some may recall the Relay For Life Golf Tournament my family participates in each June in Hays KS (it goes without saying that I have photos of that event…many photos). Dad showed me the latest addition to the golf course – floating fountains! I think all these fountains do is keep stirred up the golf balls I generously contribute to the bottom of the pond each year. BTW, in the background is the “skyline” of the Fort Hays State University campus – the black-domed Observatory was a favorite place to telescope-look at the night sky as a young Scout and student of “always looking up”…
A fun photography day spent with Dad began with the morning light casting through the beautiful stained glass at the First Presbyterian Church sanctuary. Although I grew up spiritually in this church family, I remember little of this particular church building. Mostly I grew up attending the historic church in downtown Hays. The new church was opened on Easter Sunday in 1975 and I was preoccupied with the typical high school distractions at that time of my life…
The Swallows love the mangled barbed wire in the trailer, except when I get too close…
For all things grains, crops, seeds, and harvest, the COOP has been the farmer’s go-to place throughout the Great Plains for decades, as this old truck would surely tell if asked….
With the first frost having already come knocking and winter bears down (despite being 72 degrees today), the remnants of a Kansas sunflower stubbornly continues it survival vigilance against the inevitable…
Jerry versus the standing-dead Cottonwood (Jerry won, but not without a fight)….
On the High Plains if a tree wants to grow wherever it takes root, she usually doesn’t get much argument from the land owner.
Sure can’t beat the sunset photo opportunities in the open skies of Kansas…especially (and unfortunately) when the wind has kicked up some dirt during the day…
Sure can’t beat the moon photo opportunities in the open skies of Kansas…especially when it’s dark outside
A dandelion in the backyard is annoyingly dropping seeds for next spring….
But it still makes for a great picture….
Even got the poor-man’s macro filters out for the close-ups….
And then I started looking around, only to find other dandelions shedding their seeds across the backyard….
Saved the best for last…I’m OK with these guys doing their thing in my yard when they give me this kind of show! I’ll deal with your offspring come next April….
Spent the day in Denton (Texas) today…this Canna was singing to me: “I will survive….”
One of the guys in the office came running back to me this afternoon and simply said “Look!”. I did, said “Oh!”, and took a picture….
And by the time I got outside the office building, I had this sky to photograph….
Wait a minute…would you hire the sign company with a sign in need to a sign?
From the cell phone camera of the FD today – I’m so incredibly proud of her and the FSIL – comes this photo of the fog rolling in on the Verrazono-Narrows bridge in NYC (connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island)
The two of them paid the bridge toll on their way to yet another day of Hurricane Sandy volunteering for those more dramatically affect than they were…where did she get such gracious, caring, and giving heart? (from her Mom for sure) (FD’s photo that I “sepia’d” for a kind of cool effect, don’t cha think? Hope the FD doesn’t mind the liberties taken with her photo)
Look here what they came upon in route to their place of volunteering – this may literally be a “house” boat for all I know…. (photo by FD)
And their day of volunteering was spent removing sheetrock and gutting the hurricane-damaged basement of someone’s home…(photo by FD)
Back in Texas, my day ended with a photograph of the silverware caddy in the comfort of a well-lighted, warm kitchen….
and the plunger-cup tea steeper for my nightly night cap of white tea…so that (tea) leaves little question to who’s day was more meaningful and fulfilling, agreed?
Standing on the promises…of something to eat
I these guys literally came marching up the bank without a care in the world….
…until they saw the likes of me (dang, but kind of cool, slow shutter speed – talk about being camera un-ready)
OK…I know….what a Limeyfish.com post without a “fisherman-on-the-shoreline-at-sunset” photo, right?
This morning.
This evening.
So long Daylight Savings Time (why do they mess with us like they do?)…the days are getting shorter and the sunset has moved south on the horizon, all that means is my timing is way off and I need to scope out new vantage points for evening picture-taking.
The fisherman were also struggling with the earlier sunset, I think….
Heading to the boat ramp….
The water even took on a partially frozen look….
These two weren’t, but they certainly were watching…the fishing.
If it isn’t full, it’s pert-en-near this morning….it still made the tides large on the east coast
The sky begins to glow….I’d like to say these are clouds from the Hurricane but I doubt it
The birds take flight in the morning light….
But some birds hold their position and simply take in the morning. I text’d FD this morning in NYC after seeing this sunrise coming, with a sense all was well with her and FSIL…and it was
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