An Awesome View of Life

  The same but not... Same shot.  One in color.  One in black and white, below. Today's adventure took us to one of our more favorite county parks.  When we got there road into the heart of the park was gated closed.  We parked the car and trekked into the park.   It was a bit creepy.  It was so very quiet and it felt like we were trespassing.  But kind of nice to be somewhere so very quiet. Even though the color photo is the first photo, I like the black and white one much better.

In love with... This particular wall has been photographed by this photographer twice before.  I love this wall.  I love these doors.  I love these colors. I love this building. I guess you could say I love this photo.  Just one thing - I wish the light post was centered between the other two doors.  It would make the light post a bit more interesting. (:

Color. Fast. This pinwheel has been on a shelf in the garage for about a year.  I just couldn't figure out where to put it.  Today I took it out and stuck it in an old watering can and it was perfect.   This was another lesson in the manual settings on my camera.  I love how this turned out.  You can see leaves, branches and grass in between the blades.  I  just like everything about this one.  The best part of my photos today was when they downloaded to my computer the screen was filled with thumbnails of this pinwheel.  It was so pretty.  It took 58 shots to get what I wanted. 

  Edible color...   Homemade jellies and jams in all kinds of colors and jars and flavors.  Grandma Jeanie, my sister Tammy Jo's mother-in-law, brought these for us.  They visited us about a month ago and all we had were store bought jams for our morning toast.  We are so glad Jeanie thinks homemade jellies are a must have for every household. Just so you know, the flavors include strawberry, choke cherry, black plum and peach.  I think there was another one but I can't remember what it was.  But the two we sampled this morning were delicious.

    Boys will be boys...   Today was once again a dark, gloomy day here in Minnesota.  When there isn't any sunshine there is also no color to our landscape.  Even the pine trees lose their deep green color and look brown and blah.  Wanting to take outdoor photos while the weather was warmer we went in search of outdoor color.  Maybe in a building or ?? The first stop was at a local theater that has this beautiful, bright colored mural on the side of the building.  But outdoor color was found in the most unexpected place.  In a park overlooking the Rum River there were dozens of ducks.  These brightly colored "boys" walked right up to the camera, quacking and asking for a little attention.