2/28/14

So it's the last day of February and spring should be on the way with Crocus flowers like these.  Instead this weekend has predictions of a winter snow storm and temps around zero.  This is getting old.  Speaking of old, this is an older shot from this past spring of Crocus in my yard after the late snow we had.

2/27/14

More winter weather coming so dreaming of summer and butterflies.  This is a Monarch, one of the few I saw this year, on the Butterfly Bush or Buddelja.  Hope more come around this year but their migration is endangered.  I intend to plant more things that will attract and help them like milkweed.

2/26/14

This is the Upper Falls of the Yellowstone from our trip to Yellowstone national park this past July.  The water was flowing very strong.  You can see people off to the right hand side on an overlook if you enlarge the photo which we went to as well where you can get quite close to the falls.

2/25/14

This is a photo from this past June.  I took this at the Bi-Plane Fly-In that's held here now in Junction City every summer.  I wasn't sure what the exact make of this plane is the the tag behind the propeller and engine said that it is Wright Engine which is appropriate as the first flight was made in a Bi-plane by the Wright Brothers.  I played with it a bit in Photoshop as well to make the plane itself stand out better.

2/24/14

An older image of a male cardinal sitting in the Walnut tree looking rather intense.  Winter is back today for the most part, cold temps again.

2/23/14

An older image of a train for today.  This is the Leviathan on display at Owosso, Michigan during Steamfest back in 2009.  The Leviathan is a current day engine but built to look and work like an old 1800's locomotive.  It was quite beautiful and very neat to see in person.

2/22/14

This is a composite photo.  I don't do many of these but sometimes I like to play and this one turned out fairly well so decided to share.  On a walk this week I took some shots of the weird cloud formations that were the forefront of our wacky weather.  Then on the way back I got the best Red Tail hawk in flight shot I have ever gotten but it was against a plain dreary sky.  I decided to put the two together and this is the result.