8/21/22

 It's Steamy Sunday once again here on the Blog!  Last weekend over the 2 days we fired up our 1947 Ottaway locomotive again and had some successful runs.  Saturday started out a bit disappointing but ended rather well after we discovered a couple things, one of which is some loose linkage.  Sunday we had successful trials the whole time so we are just about ready to take it to the railroad we play at and test it on a good run of track instead of the small bit we have set out.  Yay, finally after 9 years of work it is ready, very happy.  In this image it is building steam.  The tall pipe helps create draft to give oxygen to the fire.

8/20/22

 Last week, this moon was in the news quite a bit because it was the last "super moon" of the year and it also coincided with the Perseid meteor shower.  I didn't see any meteors but I did get this image of the moon.  300mm lens at 800 ISO and 1/160 shutter speed at f11 for detail.

8/19/22

 Woohoo, it's Friday, TGIF!  Friday's Are Bokehlicious so today's bokeh filled image is this one that I took of a group of my Surprise Lily blooms this past week.

8/18/22

 I was out watering the plants on my deck on the weekend and saw this guy hanging out in one of my Gerbera flower plants.  I took a couple pics and then turned the pot around to get this head on shot and loved how it turned out.  I think it's a type of tree frog.

8/17/22

 It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog!  This flower is considered invasive in my area but I find it around occasionally.  This is Musk Thistle and it provides an interesting subject to photograph I think.  They are considered invasive because they spread quite rapidly and are hard to eradicate.  Even after digging them out of the ground they can still produce seed.  When they bloom, from May to August, they have a pink puff head.

8/16/22

 Over the winter we have these birds as visitors.  When it gets pretty warm out they head out, guessing they like colder weather and head north.  Opposite of me.  😄  Anyway this is a Dark Eyed Junco that I actually captured at a park I was walking at one day last winter.  It is sitting on the dried berries of a Sumac plant.

8/15/22

 Happy Monday!  Starting the week off today with a close up image of a couple of Alyssum blooms.