11/12/16

Well, it looks like we finally had our first hard freeze.  The Zinnias looked pretty frosty this morning.  I knew it was coming but I'll miss the flowers.  This is another image of the sunrise I saw a couple Saturdays ago about 20 minutes later.  The reds were turning to oranges and the sun was pretty well up at this point but obscured by the clouds.  I liked the rays the clouds created.

11/11/16

 Happy Veteran's Day to all who do or have served.  Posting late today because I was out of town all day.   My image today is a macro of one of my Zinnias that I took this past week.  It's amazing that they are still going strong this late in the year.  I loved the bokeh behind this one.

11/10/16

Today is my Friday, have a Holiday tomorrow.  Yay.  :-)  We have had such nice weather up into November.  Because of this I saw a Honeybee at the Zinnias just this past week.  It didn't much care for me sticking a camera in it's face while it was trying to gather nectar so I had a hard time getting very close because it would fly off.  I captured it while it was busy gathering on a vibrant pink one.  

11/9/16

Well, it got pretty cold last night, there was frost on the grass so I am glad I took some stuff in.  My image for today I shot in May and it fit well for the Bird Poker Game of Eating with a sub theme of Looking at Me.  I had a number of Orioles visiting this year and they stayed for quite a while.  Usually they would leave when the Mulberries came ripe as there were those to eat but this year they stayed through that and even some weeks beyond.  This is a female Baltimore Oriole and I was pleased to get the shot as she is usually very quick and elusive.  I was able to capture her a couple of times.

11/8/16

A nice day after all that dreary-ness though it is supposed to get pretty cold tonight.  I shouldn't complain as that is normal for this time of year.  The trees know what the season is even if the temperatures don't.  I saw this tree late one afternoon and it seemed to be glowing in the sunlight and was such beautiful color I just had to stop and capture it.

11/7/16

Dreary day out with the rain this morning.  Looks more like how it should be this time of year though.  My image today is of a Bromeliad bloom that I shot a couple weekends ago.  I had never seen a yellow variety of  this plant and I thought it looked a bit like flames rising from the dark.  Bromeliads are Tropical plants that are usually used as houseplants. 

11/6/16

I hope everyone in the US remembered to turn your clocks back and enjoy your extra hour today.  My image today is one I got last weekend as Union Pacific locomotive 844 headed out of Topeka, KS.  I was shooting into the sun even though there were clouds in the sky and this image lent itself well to a B&W conversion I thought.