1/7/22

 It's the first Friday of the new year, TGIF!  Friday's are Bokehlicious here on the blog.  Bubbly bokeh is my favorite kind and here is a shot of a Rose that I took in Hershey Gardens in Pennsylvania this past summer that has quite a bit of that.

1/6/22

 I had to start the first week of the year off with one of my very favorite subjects to photograph, butterflies.  This is one I captured in very late spring and was a new one for me and one not very common in our area.  This is a Gray Copper butterfly that was enjoying my Echinacea or Cone flowers in my garden.

1/5/22

 It's the first Wildflower Wednesday of 2022!  I am going to start the year off with one of my favorite wildflowers, a Sunflower.  This is a Common one and is the state flower of Kansas.  Sunflowers always make me happy.  

1/4/22

 I follow a photographer who used to live in Canada named Don Komerechka who has produced some stunning macro snowflake photos.  I have tried to get those results and have suceeded at times.  This one is not quite there as there are some bits that I missed getting in focus but I was still pleased with the result.  I was cold and hurrying too much, this is only a stack of 8 images, I should have done several more.  I captured this during a snowfall on the first day of 2022.  A nice start I thought.

01/03/22

 I enjoy photographing birds though they don't often cooperate with me. I'll start off the new year with this image of one of my favorite birds.  I like capturing Blue Jays but they can be difficult because they usually don't sit very long at all. I was able to capture this one posing rather well in a Pear tree at the in-laws in-between getting his/her peanuts.

01/02/22

 It's the first Steamy Sunday of the New Year!  I have to start the year off with my favorite railroad, the Cumbres & Toltec which travels between Antonito Colorado and Chama New Mexico.  It's a great ride with the experience of old time railroading and great scenery.  Here on my last trip I captured the train as it made it's way up Windy Point to the highest point on the railroad at Cumbres Pass.

01/01/22

 Happy New Year!!!  Welcome to 2022!  May this year be better than the last.  May we all have a safe and happy one.  My image to bring in the new year is my last sunrise I took in 2021 at my in-law's home in Missouri.  It was a beautiful and colorful start to the day.