12/12/14

I love Bleeding Heart flowers.  They are so unique and interesting.  I had never seen white ones until I saw these in Minnesota this past June.  They may be named something else but the shape of the flowers and leaves are the same.The white version is lovely in it's own way as well.

12/11/14

I took this photo this past summer.  I was thinking this was on my Hibiscus but it's actually on my Rose of Sharon I realized.  It's a lovely Tawny Emperor Butterfly, one of the few that came to visit this year.

12/10/14

Dreaming of warmer days again.  We are in for at least 5 days of cold and dreary and probably won't even get any decent rain out of it.  This is an image I took on a walk of some Wild Alfalfa with some afternoon sun on it.

12/9/14

This is an image from this past June on the day of the Bi-Plane Fly-In that takes place annually in Junction City Kansas now.  Not many planes were able to come due to the stormy weather leading up to it but the day turned out to be lovely with great temps, a light wind and a lovely sky.  This is an image of one of the planes taking off for a flight around the area. 

12/8/14

Today was lovely, almost spring like after the cold temps we had been having.  I took this image this past spring and thought I would share it today as it was fitting.  Temps are dropping tomorrow, knew it couldn't last.  This is a macro image of a bearded Iris in my garden.

12/7/14

One full week of December gone already, Christmas is coming fast.  Hope your preparations are coming along OK. My image for today is two locomotives getting ready to be put to bed at the engine house in Chama, New Mexico. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the locomotives are usually not cooled down all the way, they are kept warm so if they are needed quickly they can be heated back up to operating temperature faster and moved out onto the line to take over.  It's quite the operation there.

12/6/14

This is a gorgeous red sunrise I was able to observe and capture from the porch at work in very late October.  Usually a sky like this should mean rain due to the old poem "Red sky at morning, sailors take warning" but all we got was a sprinkle that didn't even wet the whole ground.  The sky was beautiful and wonderful to see though.  I was glad to have captured it when I did as well because this vibrant color did not last long at all.