Creepy crawlies

Every once in a while a creepy crawlie finds its way to the front of my lens.  I saved a few of them over the summer just for today.

A spider on my camera bag

Happy Halloween everyone.

Cool weather

October's chilly days are offering up some new photo opportunities.  The possibilities each morning are only limited by how quickly my fingers freeze.

The leaves fall, the wind blows, the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.

Henry Beston

Autumn

"Everyone must take the time to sit and watch the leaves turn."  Elizabeth Lawrence

Sunrise

When I first began this photography hobby, I was outside every morning and every evening trying to catch beautiful sunrises and sunsets.  This summer I was not out once to photograph a sunrise, and only rarely a sunset.  I can't decide ... am I getting lazy, or am I just finding too many other subjects.  Maybe a little of both?

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long you miss them.

William Arthur Ward

Sweat peas

These little flowers just keep blooming despite the frost.  Besides beautiful, there's only one word for them - Hardy!

Here are sweat peas, on tip-toe for flight;
With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white,
And tapered fingers catching at all things,
To bind them all about with tiny rings.
John Keats

Harvest end

The last of the soybeans, means the end of another year's harvest.

          When the year from fruitful labours turn to rest...
          Founts of warmth and comfort in my being flow.
          And I little reck that winter will come soon.

C. B. Galbreath

City Garden

A few days ago I visited this garden.  I had gone with the intention of photographing fall foliage.  I was stunned by the glory and colours of the fall gardens.  The next night the temperatures dipped below freezing and I'm sure much of this loveliness was gone.  I am thankful for this place and the few hours I spent there.  My mind is buzzing - trying to imagine what these plants would look like in my small space.

 

 

 

   

 

 

"In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought, and care and toil.  And at no season, safe perhaps at daffodil time, do we get such superb color effects as from August to November."

Rose G. Kingsley