A walk in the woods

There's a little spot that I love to visit.  It's filled with beautiful little wild flowers and all sorts of things to photograph.  I look forward to my visits because each time I'm there, I'm rewarded with completely different images.

 

In every walk with nature, one receives more than he seeks.

John Muir

A visit to the "boneyard"

There is something about old relics that draws photographers regardless of whether they are amateur or professional shutterbugs.  I don't know why it is that we find a connection to our past in this way.  Recently a friend let me visit his "boneyard" (my term for it) and I am very grateful for the few quiet hours I was able to spend there.  For me, the challenge with photographing relics is to tell an interesting story - to say more than "here's an old vehicle".  I hope I've told stories worthy of the history of these subjects.

Ice cream anyone?

You've got mail.

 

A New Look

As you can see, I've updated the look of my blog.  I hope my friends who visit here periodically like the new look.
I am also making a few other changes.  Rather than frequent postings of a photo with an inspirational quotation, I have decided to post less often, and change the format to more of a "photo essay".  I'm excited about it - so let's see how that turns out.

Foxtail

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.

Plato

"Smiling" pansies

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."

Washington Irving

Roadside flowers

Recently, I have been reading a great deal about macro and closeup photography.  I came across an article about showing wild flowers in their environment.  I went for a bike ride to see what I could find along the road.  These are a couple of my attempts at this form of photography.

"There are flowers for those who want to see them."  Henri Matisse

A Garden welcome

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

Thomas Fuller

Summer

"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.  A few days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world."

Ada Louise Huxtable

After the rain

There's a saying, "God made rainy days so that gardeners could get the housework done" (author unknown).  I think rainy days are for photographing the garden and enjoying the fruits of one's labour.

Bugs

"If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive."
American Quaker Proverb