12/26/14

Posting late today as I was out doing various sight seeing activities all day.  Dreaming of Spring today with this image of a female Tiger Swallowtail on Lilac blooms.

12/25/14

Merry Christmas everyone who celebrates and Happy Day to all!  Hope you are having a great day no matter how you spend it.

12/24/14

Happy Christmas Eve to all who celebrate and happy day to all!  This image is part of the Christmas Village that used to be my mom's that my dad gave me a couple of years ago and I have enjoyed since.  I took part of it to work for us to enjoy in the office there and I took this image of it early one morning before all the lights were turned on.

12/23/14

Well, I saw the sun for a half hour maybe today.  Sigh.  This is getting old.  So I'm thinking of summer and of butterflies.  These are two Postmen Butterflies that I observed at the Butterfly Pavilion outside of Denver, Colorado this past summer.  A great place to visit with lots of beautiful butterflies.

12/22/14

We're getting some rain today before it turns cold again.  Wish we could get even more rain but I'll take what I can get.  This is an image from this spring that I was playing with and decided to share.  Can't wait till spring is here again and we have tulips up for real.

12/21/14

Well, the sun is gone again on this penultimate Sunday of the year.  Looking back to Rollag, Minnesota in this image of locomotive 353 pulling the train around by the roundhouse.  It has just left one of the passenger pick up points and is heading around to the other.  Everyone can ride this train for free and it is a great way to get from one end of the grounds to the other.  I decided to process this with a sepia effect for an old time feel and quite like the results.

12/20/14

We get to see the sun again!  A beautiful blue sky for the first time in many days!  This is another view of the sunset out at the Geary State fishing Lake that I took back in October.  I shot this version as I was on my way back to the car.  I liked the look of the light in the clouds and the color it was creating.  I also liked how it looked on the water.