3/7/15

Wow it was warm this morning!  Crazy for so early in March.  Wish we could get some rain since it's all dreary anyway.  Sigh.  I am in a monochrome mood again.  This is one of my Crocus that is already up and blooming.  Crazy early Spring.  Anyway, I decided to process in monochrome and I liked how it turned out so here you go.

3/6/16

Today is Steamy Sunday on Google + and almost literally for here as it is still winter and going to be in the mid 70s!  Our chances for rain have dropped quite a bit too.  Not as many now so not holding my breath that one will actually produce.  
Warm weather makes me wish for days of doing train stuff like heading out to my favorite tourist railroad, the Cumbres & Toltec in Colorado and New Mexico.This is an image from one of the trips there of locomotive 483 in front of the oldest wooden coal tipple in the US as it was moving around the yard to prep for the next days runs.

3/5/16

Another beautiful day in-store today.  Some chances for rain next week as well.  They are not big chances but hopefully one of them at least will provide some.  I think it's only due to the lack of rain that flowers aren't up fully already.  It's been so warm and they are rising pretty quickly even without moisture.  This tulip bloom is from last year and is a macro shot of one of my mini tulips in full bloom called Little Red Riding Hoods.  They are fairly old in my garden and don't always come up and bloom.  I got a couple last year and will see what happens this year.

3/4/16

Well, another warm day but still SO dry.  When the wind is blowing it is like the old Dust Bowl days of Kansas.  Allergies are even kicking in for people due to this.  My image is from this past summer of one of my Mandevilla blooms.  I loved how this turned out with the muted color background, almost looks B&W but I did not do any special processing.  I have this plant inside for the winter and it is shooting out new vine growth that is climbing up the door it is near and sometimes seems to reach out to try and grab me as i walk by it as well.  The vines are following the light I am sure but makes it seem alive.  :-)

3/3/16

I am so disappointed that we couldn't even get a drop of rain.  It's bad enough we can't get snow but sucks that no rain either.  I'm just feeling blah and uninspired as well and too darn busy everywhere.  My mood is putting me in a monochrome type of mood I think.  I do love this image though.  I took this in West Virginia in Babcock State Park of the Glade Creek Grist Mill.  I thought this view of it worked quite well in B&W.  It's a very picturesque place.

3/2/16

Well, nice weather for the foreseeable future.  Keeping fingers crossed that Spring Break week is the same.  This image today comes from last summer and is of a Cabbage Worm Butterfly enjoying the Salvia I have planted.  Salvia seems pretty popular with the butterflies.  There almost always seems to be a butterfly of some kind on it which is a nice thing to see.

3/1/16

Well, it's the first day of March and more normal weather now so is this "in like a lion or lamb"?  :-)  Anyway, my image today goes back to my trip to Mount Evans in Colorado and the Bristle-cone Pine Forest located there.  These cool, very old trees have such neat twisting shapes with lines of color in them.  They are quite beautiful and interesting to photograph.  They are very determined as well because they only grow at very high altitudes, almost at the tree line on mountainsides.