Snow and ice

Winter foilage

And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. ~Roy Bean

Winter has been slow in coming this year. We finally got a little snow this weekend so I decided to have a little fun with the ice. I’m [...]

What’s for dinner?

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. ~Ludwig van Beethoven

I don’t know if Beethoven really said that but a tasty soup is, well, good for the soul. One of my favorite meals is homemade chicken or turkey soup with noodles made from scratch. This [...]

Yellow

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Swallowtail

Nikon D7000 105.0 mm f/2.8 lens @ 105 mm 1/250 sec @ f/8, ISO 200

Yellow wakes me up in the morning.  Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the [...]

Now where did I park?

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A different sort of auto pollution

Nikon D7000 35.0 mm f/1.8 lens @ 35 mm 1/60 sec @ f/4, ISO 800

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof ~Isaiah 24:5

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On the playground

Cold steel

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have always felt playgrounds make an interesting photographic subject.  The bright colors, the structures [...]