10/31/16

So today is the last day of October and a fun day for kids of all ages as I have seen adults who Trick or Treat for adult beverages.  :-)  This is a shot I made of my Halloween Pumpkins that I have lit up.  They are metal pumpkins.  I played around with the shot for a more glowing effect.

10/30/16

So yesterday I was near Topeka playing trains.  The Union Pacific 844 was heading back through the area from it's first main outing after a major overhaul and boiler re-do.  It had made a trip to Tennessee and was on it's way back home to Cheyenne, Wyoming and it had a short enough train it did not have a diesel assist with it so it was great to catch it like this.  I was told it usually has the diesel to assist in breaking not for any pulling power, with the shorter train the steam power could handle it alone.  I caught the train on Highway 24 just outside the city as it headed in to Union Station. 

10/29/16

I am posting quite late today because I was out of town playing trains for the last time this year.  This fall has been beautiful.  I took this image last Friday on a drive down to southern Kansas.  It was a cool morning with a bit of fog.  There was a lovely sunrise and you could see heavy mist rising off the river.

10/28/16

I felt like sharing a Dragonfly today.  I captured this guy hanging out by the pond one day.  I saw a large number of Damselflies this year but not as many Dragonflies it seemed or maybe I just missed them when they were around.  :-)

10/27/16

It's been just beautiful out these days, finally having a very nice Autumn and not just going from summer straight into winter for once.  Usually by now we have had a killing frost but still nothing in the predictions yet.  I am having a long week with having had no time of during the weekend so I needed a bright pick me up today.  This is a fuzzy Bumblebee enjoying the blooms of my Butterfly Milkweed earlier this summer.

10/26/16

Well, we got quite the rain last night.  Really poured hard for a while.  My image today is another of some silhouetted geese flying by one evening.  I captured this while in a store parking lot.  I heard them coming and had my camera with so captured a few shots.  I shared a more artsy version of this closer to the time I took it.  This week's Bird Poker on G+ game is Silhouettes and I thought this fit that pretty well.  This is much more true to the sky color than the other shot I shared.  

10/25/16

I saw these two trees while on vacation last year.  I was at Scott's Bluff National Monument in Nebraska on a walk along a trail.  The shape of these trees reminded me of people bowing, one with their arms thrown back and the other just bending at the waist.  I actually thought of a title for this one, Take A Bow.  They were a couple of very old Cedars that the wind had been affecting for years and had finally taken it's toll on.