2/7/20

Today's image is a variation on a previous one I shared a while back.  I was able to capture this Dickcissel out on Konza Prairie this past June.  I was able to get it from a couple different angles and it stayed and didn't fly off right away.  In this shot it is singing it's heart out to others on the prairie.  This one and the previous image are my most favorite I have ever captured of them.  Plus the bokeh in this image was pretty great and so it was perfect for today because Fridays are Bokehlicious!  😄

2/6/20

My African Violet has been doing quite well and is in it's second bloom period since I got it from a friend.  I think it makes for an interesting subject with it's tiny hairs and flowers.  This is a 2 image focus stack to get more details of it in focus.

2/5/20

These are a couple more of the tiny snowflakes I was able to capture during our last snow.  The flake on the left is a 7 image focus stack and the one on the right was 8 images focus stacked.

2/4/20

This is a Black Cap Chickadee I was able to capture recently.  They usually don't sit very long but I was able to time this one right and capture it on the trunk of the Mulberry tree.  This image had some pretty good bokeh as well and bokeh is good any day!

2/3/20

The warm weather we had this weekend made me wish that winter was over and that I was seeing butterflies again.  This is an image from last summer of a lovely little butterfly with a not great name.  This is an Imported Cabbageworm on a Russian sage plant in my garden.

2/2/20

For the first Steamy Sunday of February 2020 I thought I would share another of my passions.  This is my Live Steam Accurcraft C-21 locomotive on a friend's layout.  I have been working on getting my railroad cleaned up so I can run trains on it again.  After we bought our new land the railroad took a back seat to that but now that things are fairly cleaned up and shaped up there I hope to be running trains outside again.  For anyone new to the Blog this year, I have a very short YouTube video of this locomotive running in this spot where this image was taken but with a coaling tower there instead.  It can be found here   Link will open in a new window.

2/1/20

This is the sunrise I was treated to on my first day back to work after our winter break on January 6.  I was hoping it was an omen of a good year to come.  So far so good.  😀  This is a 2 shot panoramic image.