Tag: nature
The Come-On-You-Can-Do-Better Daily Cap(s) (12)
The Top Half Daily Cap(s) (9)
The North Texas Icepocalypse
Calling on Prospect Park
A Sunrise Storm
Up and at ’em
The Saturday Morning Moon
Sunny Side Up
The more I use my Canon G15, the more I figure out what it can and cannot do. I set this on AV mode and messed with the settings for a dozen shots or so. One thing for sure is when I do close ups, that high dollar tripod sitting on the backseat floorboard of my truck ought to be put to use. Despite the camera shake and crabby cursing of a bright mid-day sun, the butterfly was a champ in having tremendous patience as I tried to find just the right angle. Continue reading Sunny Side Up
A Kansas Weather Welcome (Treat)
I love weather-watching in Kansas…at times it can fill the entire horizon, and you can see it coming (happening) from a long ways away. It can sometimes seem to swallow you up whole But then as quickly as you get a little weather, it then calms down quite nicely Only to fire back up after sunset so you can marvel in its might (I used my Canon G15 on the hood of my truck, letting the lightning illuminate the thunderhead, and my nephews car tail lights lighting the gravel drive in the foreground…all this with a flashing spent battery light … Continue reading A Kansas Weather Welcome (Treat)
That Doesn’t Look So Good, But It Does Look Cool
While checking out the new football field installation at a job site last week, a cold front (yes, I said “cold” front…in Texas…in July) on the horizon caught everyone’s attention. It was impressive (and the iPhone photo does it no justice…and just for the record, I had my camera, in the truck, on the opposite side of the school campus – some Boy Scout I am huh?). As it approached, it rumbled and belched, and then quickly petered out over us. It was cool to watch the “cold” come rolling in while it lasted (about a 20 minute show). Continue reading That Doesn’t Look So Good, But It Does Look Cool
Turning Your Back On A New Dawn
Half ‘n Half
Oh Those Blooming Texas Wildflowers
Cast A Crooked Shadow
“You can’t trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.” -W. C. Fields Continue reading Cast A Crooked Shadow
Walkin’ The Line
Somewhere out there I reckon there is a mighty fine country song just right for this picture…. Continue reading Walkin’ The Line
Morning Blossoms
Walking a Neighborhood in Bloom
My backyard Sour Cherry Tree (and not another pollinator anywhere close that I know of) Sneaking a picture of neighbor’s Daylily (this took some “stealth photography” exercises in order not to alert the yappy dogs of my encroachment) Petunias greet the postman every Spring day next door… I’ve had these Spiderlilies at my front door for many years, although the blooms get less each year as my trees give too much shade (a Jamaican gardener I once knew called these “Trashy Ladies”…he had his reasons and I’ll leave it at that) Why is it a rose – or that by … Continue reading Walking a Neighborhood in Bloom