Every now and then it strikes me all over again how much I love living in this particular lovely corner of the world, and how very lucky I am to be able to get outdoors nearly every day and enjoy it. This proud little sparrow and I just can’t help singing the praises of living near Lake Natoma!
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 25, 2016. Share a photograph inspired by a favorite poem, verse, story, or song lyric. Bonus points if you share why the particular text resonates with you. (Though you certainly don’t have to!) If you’re not feeling especially literary or musical this week, see if you can capture the […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 4, 2016: “The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords having a pleasing effect; the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole.” Working in harmony traveling in harmony Gliding in harmony Pedaling in harmony
I was very lucky on my walk yesterday to notice a Red-shouldered Hawk keeping an eye on proceedings from above the bike trail. He didn’t seem the least bit bothered by my presence. As much as I love my pocket-sized Fujifilm Finepix AX, it would have been nice to have a more powerful zoom in shooting this guy. Still, I can’t complain too much! These pictures brought to you by 16 megapixels and some image-editing software. 😀
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 19, 2016. Folsom Crossing, north end — April 2015 Folsom Crossing, south end — October 2015 Folsom Crossing, south end — January 2016
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 12, 2016. … or maybe Art imitates Life! A mural seen inside the local Bass Pro Shops outlet, and two fishermen in their aluminum boat on Lake Natoma.
What really helped kick off my current obsession with ground-level macro was my discovery of photographer Kim Leuenberger and her completely awesome Traveling Cars Adventures series. I wanted to put my own spin on her idea, so I took a tiny ’55 Chevy Nomad and a mini 2001 Mini Cooper to the coast with me and played with a couple of […]
Two of my very favorite books growing up, and even to this day, have been Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice was always shrinking and growing and being forced to examine her world in completely new ways. I liked to play at being Alice: peering toward the edges of mirrors and pretending that backward […]