It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog. Playing around with the Pencil technique again, this time with the Union Pacific Big Boy locomotive. This is an image I had captured as it made it's way across the fields just west of my town here in Kansas back in 2019. It was very cool to be able to see this huge locomotive come through our area.
Today's image was taken on a walk in January at sunset. There is an old windmill on some property that makes for some picturesque sunset photos.
TGIF Today's image is of the same butterfly that I posted last week. This image shows why it got it's name Question Mark. If you click on the image and look at it larger you can see a light colored mark in about the middle of it's bottom wing and it looks like a sideways question mark. I also shared this picture today because I love the bokeh in the background, especially the bubbly bokeh in the upper middle and Friday's Are Bokehlicious here on the Blog!
I am looking forward to summer and flowers in the garden. That is where I got this shot of one of my Roses in bloom looking rather perfect. This would have been a good Friday image because of the beautiful bokeh in the image but bokeh is good any day. 😄
We were a lot warmer the last 2 days than it was the week before so spring seems not that far off. Today's wildflower on the Blog is one of the earliest to bloom. This is a Ground Plum and usually can be found as early as April in our area. It is in the Legume family and it produces a fruit that you can eat. The fruit can be about grape size and if found and eaten early, it tastes a lot like a fresh pea. It can be eaten later as well but as it ages it becomes very woody. I have tried them several times and enjoy them.
Last week we finally had a really good snow with clear and beautiful flakes. I was able to capture some like this group. I liked how even the one at the edge of the photo turned out in focus and was rather nice looking so I left it in. This is a 23 image focus stack but if you look closely, even that wasn't enough as I missed a bit. Ah well.
Usually when I get to see these birds they are flying away from me. I did get a lot of shots like that as well but for some reason this day it kept staying around this location. It was a fairly cold day and there is a stream right near where it was standing so it may have been trying to protect some food it had from some hawks that were also around. This is a Great Blue Heron and they over winter in our part of Kansas.
