Another sudden change in the weather has brought on a day that is sunny, hot, and MUGGY! I like it all but the muggy part, but it is what it is, and I'm not complaining. A walk in the park around mid-day captured several photos that made me happy. First, a red admiral butterfly. They …
Eureka! (An addendum to my previous post)
I probably should title this post "Learning the Hard Way" because I learned something new about my camera this week, and it has improved my image quality and lessened the amount of post-processing I have to do. Happily, I am much better pleased with my images. Unhappily, this is something I could have done a …
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Spring photography experiments
The title of today's post is somewhat misleading. Yes, it is spring, and I am engaged in some experiments with my camera, but the two are only tangentially related. Our spring has been an unusually early one, a bit of a treat for us nature photographers. The experiments came about as a result of my …
What is it about birds?
My favorite subjects for photography are people, dogs, landscapes, but most of all birds. Birds are a big attraction for me. Observing their behaviors and the expressions on their faces brings me much joy! It can be below freezing according to the thermometer, as it was today, but just give me a woodpecker to watch …
The world outside my window…
...is bursting into bloom. Magnolia trees, forsythia bushes, daffodils, and more are brightening up what has been a pretty dull landscape for most of the winter. We usually have a fair amount of snow here in northeast Ohio, Lake Erie freezes over for part of the winter, and our local river, the Chagrin, is almost always covered with ice thick enough to walk on during January and February. None of that happened this winter. Without snow on the ground, I didn't have a good background for the pictures I took in the park. But now winter seems to be over, although spring snowfall isn't unheard of. A few years back we woke up on Easter morning to several inches of very unwelcome white stuff! However, we have arrived at the official first day of spring in the midst of an extended warm spell with temperatures near or above 70 degrees. My thermometer currently reads 75 sunny degrees to the delight of just about everyone. Here is what it looked like in the Arboretum today when I stopped to wander around after my visit to the dentist.
If these spring scenes have whetted your appetite for more, I posted a slide show here. I hope you enjoyed your short visit to the Arboretum today. see you soon.
~Carolyn aka Skip
Spring??? Well, maybe!
Yesterday spring had sprung in our neighborhood, but of course that was just a foretaste of the real thing. According to the calendar, it is still winter. Today the weather was something between the two, cooler than yesterday, but not cold. It was overcast for most of the day, but the sun managed to show …
Meal time manners!
The day dawned sunny and clear...and cold! Thinking it would warm up, I delayed my photo walk until nearly noon, hoping the birds would still be active. It wasn't warm, but the sun was cheerful and the birds were hungry. I get so much pleasure from watching their behavior, and today was no exception. Take …
Beautiful birds!
I started this post from the "new post" link, chose the pictures I wanted to include, and added my keywords. It was fast and simple. Then, because I wanted to add this message, I clicked on "edit this" and typed my message. I have to say that it's a quick and easy process. I had …
Bird watching
My photo walk this morning turned out to be a bird walk. All the photo opps that presented themselves were birds, and they were real "posers", as in posing for the camera. It was a great morning for a walk: some filtered sunshine, no wind, and relatively mild temperatures for February....somewhere approaching 40 degrees Fahrenheit. …
So much beauty, so little time!
I don't have much blogging time tonight, so any extensive writing is going to have to wait for another day, and I will limit today's post to mostly pictures. The sun was shining this morning, replacing yesterday's grey skies. I was surrounded by beauty on my morning photo walk, and I am excited to be …
SEEN ALONG THE TRAIL 