The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of August 9, 2017: Exploring the elements of earth, air, water, and fire through the landscapes that surround us. Up in the mountains, away from the highway, the conveniences, and the safety of our familiar, life is reduced to the basic elements. There are no traffic sounds here — only the […]
With daytime temperatures sitting firmly in the 100-degree range and air quality officially unhealthy for sensitive groups, any strenuous exercise I’m doing has to be as early as possible in the day. This morning as I stepped out my door, the air felt stagnant and thick and already slightly uncomfortable. It was a bit daunting, but I felt rewarded as […]
The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Sky. Your photos can be a brilliant blue sky or a stormy sky. You can have objects in the sky or not. I just want to see plenty of blue skies and skies that are full of clouds and storms. A sky full of ever-changing clouds has been one of […]
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm — Mahatma Gandhi
Seasonal pools on Mississippi Bar:
We’ve been having some pretty awesome sunsets lately — tonight I couldn’t resist running outside to capture this one.
I shot these photos on the afternoon of January 12, after the last of a series of storms blew through our area. All were taken as the Big Guy and I walked roughly half a mile from the house to a nearby store.