First Time For This

I have never tried to take fireworks until last night. We had a neighbor that shot some off and we can see the top of the highest shot from a park near by. I even took some of the cars coming up the road in the smoke. The wind wind was not blowing so the smoke just hung in the air giving an erie look.

All were taken hand held an set on 1600 ISO @1/20th.


This was caught just at the right time, the explosion. It's one of those that just make super loud noise, like the warning shots the big displays give off.

Errrriiiiieeeeeee

Seven Months Ago

Just seven months and 3 days ago I took this shot for the monthly posting. Haven't looked back to see if I used it or not but never the less I took this one too.

Slow Season....So Far

With all the rain and off and on temperatures I figure I will be lucky to get much from my few plants this year. Finally I have one Grape Tomato turning and finally I have more coming on. I even used Blossom Set but a couple of weeks ago we had two weeks or so of high heat and humidity, somewhere in the mid 90's. Then we got down in the lower 40's a couple of nights but mainly the low 50's. Plants don't like changes and they don't like heat, well not tomatoes.

This plant is in a Topsy Turvy, little experimenting on my part. I have a full size tomato also in one as well as a full size in the ground. The two full size are running neck and neck but the in ground plant seems to be catching up. You see, it took a beating when we had small baseball size hail hit the area. Poor thing was on the ground with a partially cut stem. I stood it up and packed some dirt around it and voila, it is growing well.

The other full size as well as the grape type are in the Topsy Turvy planters. They weathered the storm quite well. I think it was due to the fact that they could swing in the wind and thus the plant end was not exposed to the hail. It was the end where put your dirt in. One took a couple of real damaging hits that broke the lid into several pieces. I called the company to try to buy a replacement and they sent me a new one, no charge, not even shipping. Only thing is it the kind that you put a pole through the center and the plants (3) around the side. I have sense then used duct tape, takes six strips, to fix the cracks and to keep it in place.

July Posting...Day Late

I could have waited to take the July shot on the 3rd but that would not be honest. The first was sunny all day and tomorrow is suppose to be that way too, but today we awoke to a real light drizzle. It has been cloudy all day but getting brighter.

The pictures are not about the day as much as the angle of the sun, if it is out, or the brightness of the day, again if the sun is out and the way the foliage looks as the seasons turn. There are only 7 more shots to be taken to make it one year or 24 shots. Hopefully I will be able to figure out how to show all or at least half of them at one time.

A Late Afternoon Snack or Dinner?

We have a couple of Bittern that frequent the pond near our house. They are of the Herron family but as you can see much smaller. I will be posting some of the other shots I took the other evening when I get to look at them more closely.



Out the Window...Mid-June Posting

Hot and humid as you can see from the foggy/haziness look. Oh, I forgot, rain too. We get well over 30 days of rain, a small break and it cools off. Air gets nice and dry, almost fall like weather. Then you get smacked in the face with the high humidity and heat. Actually it isn't all that hot but the wet air feels like it is extremely hot.

The left side of the first picture would almost line up with the right side of this picture.Notch in tree tops and the utility pole.

As you can see the sun is trying to peak through and this is suppose to burn off but I can tell you that since I didn't post this until now, 3 days later, that the sun never did appear.

June Monthly Posting

Wow, here we are almost halfway through the year and a little over halfway through my not so scientific look at how the sun and lighting goes from inside one window of my house. This is one of the few sunny days we have had on the first of the month. At least that is the way it seems. I am tempted to look back but I'm not going to until my little project is over. I do believe the harsh winter and never ending, at least it looked that way, has made for the thought of no sunny days. Actually during the winter months there were lots of sunny days, just cold and believe it or not.....snow. I didn't know blue sky could drop snow flakes.

June 1, 2011....@ 7:30 AM. Yesterday was August weather but today will be less humid and only 84.