The milkweed patch

I went for a walk and discovered a milkweed patch that seemed to be waiting for me to come by with my camera.  These are terrible weeds, but they are very beautiful and interesting - photographically.

Autumn's arrival

I am rich today with autumn's gold

All that my covetous hands can hold.

          from Autumn (by Gladys Harp)

Flower or weed?

We think of a weed as something that grows where it's not supposed to.  A weed can have a lovely flower, so "beauty" is not a criteria.  I found this poppy growing in a patch of other weeds.  I normally till this spot, but this year the ground has been too wet to till until now.  Because of that, this poppy grew where there have never been poppies, probably from seed dropped by birds.  I wonder if that makes it a weed?  I left it there, hoping it will drop its seeds and I'll have more next year.

More flowers

"The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer"

Anon.

My garden

I haven't spent as much time photographing my garden this summer as I did in other years, but I did catch a few shots.

"You're only here for a short visit.  Don't hurry, don't worry.  And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."

Walter Hagen

Summer's end

This was one of my favourite shots of the summer.  It seems a fitting photo to post as summer ends.

"To see the Summer Sky

Is poetry, though never in a book it lie"

Emily Dickinson

 

More downtown photos

Downtown

I participated in a photo walk a few days ago.  It was a cloudy dull day.  However, I was intrigued by the reflections.  These were some of my favourite.

"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."  Frank Gehry

Texture

A friend told me recently that when he returns to a place he has visited many times, he goes with a particular type of shot, or camera setting, in mind.  One morning I walked around a semi-truck that had been parked close by which I have walked around many times and could not think of any way to photograph it.  It was a bright sunny morning, and the contrast would be high, so I decided to look for textures.  It didn't take long and I was seeing them everywhere. 

A running board

The grille

"The beauty does not live out there; the beauty's in my eyes."  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Rock

"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be explained in words."

Ansel Adams

Taken in Joshua Tree National Park, 2013 (I think of it as "Turtle Rock")