5/7/16

A beautiful morning but supposed to be heading up to 85F today.  Yikes.  That's early for those kinds of temps.  It's supposed to rain then and cool us off tomorrow.  We shall see.  My only tulips this year to do well were my red group out front and then the pink ones in the back yard.  These tulips are interesting because the blooms change color as they mature.  When they first emerge they are almost white but as they grow older they become a deeper pink.  You can tell how far along they were when I took this image of a lovely trio of them.

5/6/16

Another lovely day today though we are supposed to get quite warm the next 2 days.  The radio called it our "Roller Coaster Temps".  The Iris are beginning to bloom.  I captured this dark purple one a few days ago.  It appeared to me to be sticking it's tongue out so the title Say Ahhhh popped in to my head with this image.  :-)

5/5/16

Happy Cinco de Mayo!  Can't believe it's May already.  It's chilly in the morning right now too but has been rather lovely later in the day.  I captured my first Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly on such a day last week.  They are difficult to shoot because they are almost constantly in motion flitting from bloom to bloom and very skittish when I get close.  I always have to use a zoom lens and wait patiently for them to sit for a moment.  I got lucky with this shot that I was ready and got it in focus as well.

5/4/16

So over on G+ they play a game called Bird Poker.  This week was Birds of Prey and then you have sub-themes of different things of which I hit 2 of, Perching and 2 or More with today's image.  There was also one of Humorous and I may have hit that too because I thought the way the older one was looking at the juvenile was kind of funny.  It looked to me like it was thinking, "What are you doing?"  I captured these 2 Bald Eagles out at Milford Lake a while back.  So that's why the 2 bird images this week.  

5/3/16

So the day started off cloudy and cool again.  No rain in the forecast for  awhile, we could use some more before it stops for the summer.  My image today was taken on a rainy day in Missouri at my in-laws house.  I was taking images of their Weeping Cherry tree through the window and thought it was very much living up to it's name.

5/2/16

I have had this photo for a while but I was never happy with how it turned out.  I was able to shoot this Barred Owl at a friend's house in her backyard.  It's the only time I have been able to photograph an owl in the wild.  It used to hang around her yard and visit the bird bath and stay for fairly long periods of time which was how I got to see it.  Anyway, since I took this image, my skills have improved a bit I think and I like the look of it now.

5/1/16

It's May Day!  A dreary one so far which I wouldn't mind it it would rain but nothing so far.  Can't believe how fast this year is going.  Yikes.  My image for today is of a friend's cool Live Steam locomotive.  It's a Climax type locomotive and it runs on butane and water like mine do.  I love the detailing in these small locomotives and it's cool to watch them run.