Color me spring
Posted: March 19, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Art, beginnings, Critters, Earth, endings, Fire, home, life, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, equinox, flowers, fog, garden, Mother Nature, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotations, reflections, trees, water, winter 30 Comments
Robin welcoming spring on a foggy morning.
Spring officially begins at 1:14am on March 20th. The average high temperature here in the Bogs at this time of year is usually 48 degrees (F).
Happy Birthday!
Posted: September 24, 2011 Filed under: Autumn, beginnings, celebrations, Earth, friends, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, water, weather | Tags: birthday, campfire, equinox, Fire, Photography, postaday2011 13 Comments
Happy Birthday, MC! I didn’t have enough candles so I figure this campfire will do. 😉 Your tiara awaits.
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A good friend is having one of those milestone birthdays today. In honor of her birthday and the Autumnal Equinox, we’re having a mini version of our Party By The Pond. It should be great fun. The weather has decided to mostly cooperate. There is a very slight chance of rain but they’re predicting the sun will show up sometime this afternoon. Yay for sunshine!
We will say goodbye to summer and welcome in autumn with my homemade salsa, fish tacos, and margaritas. There will be other food. I just don’t know what it is yet since some of our guests will be bringing an appetizer, a side dish, or a dessert with them. I am sure it will all be excellent.
It feels odd not to have to post. Even odder not to have a walk to tell you about or thousands of photos to post. Truthfully, it feels good. 🙂
Not to worry, though. I’ve gotten into the walk and photo habit. I’m sure there will be more posts about what’s happening around the pond here at Breezy Acres. I’m thinking about brushing up on my food photography skills again, too. In the meantime, I’m floundering a bit, trying to figure out how to end this post. Let’s keep it simple…
Have a great weekend!
178: Vernal equinox
Posted: March 20, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, beginnings, Earth, endings, Fire, full moon, goals, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: equinox, full moon, Goodyear Blimp, moon, postaday2011, spring cleaning, supermoon 38 Comments
Here we are, another new season beginning. Technically it isn’t spring yet here. Not for a few more hours. But it’s close enough. Happy Spring!
I had fun shooting the moon last night. Most of my shots (including the one I opened this post with) are overexposed. As I noted at Karma’s blog this morning, the moon baffles me. Sometimes two shots in a row, with the camera on the same settings, come out completely different. I’ve learned to take what I can get.
Full moon rising, in sepia.
And then I take what I got and play with it in Photoshop.
I didn’t do much. Just tweaked the sharpness a little and then converted them to sepia tones. Or close to sepia. I decided to make the tone a little more on the brown side. It looked better to me for reasons I can’t explain.
Goodyear Blimp
I promised you some photos of the Goodyear blimp doing the touch-and-go’s. I would like to have done this in a slide show here at WordPress, but you can’t have individual photos in the same post as a slide show. They all end up in the slide show. I hope that’s something WordPress will deal with in the future.
Up in the air
Watching them do take offs and landings is fun and interesting. M and I went out to the air dock a few years ago with a friend and her young son. If you like, you can see the photos from that excursion here. (To be honest, those photos, taken with my old camera, are much better than what I took yesterday. It was not the camera. We were closer to where the blimp was landing and taking off.)
Coming in for a landing
It was a little breezy yesterday. I noticed as the blimp was coming in that it shimmied quite a bit.
Getting closer to the ground
Sometimes I think it might be fun to take a ride in the blimp. Other times, my fear of flying reasserts itself and I come back to reality.
As you see in the above photo, they have quite a few people on the ground to help bring the blimp down.
I wonder how difficult it is to grab the lines. I know it takes a lot of people, working together, to bring the blimp in.
And after putting in all that effort, the blimp takes off again in a seemingly effortless way.
Going up!
Once again up in the air
Today’s Outdoor Adventures
This will be short and sweet. I went back to my spring cleaning project today. My outdoor time has involved taking rugs out to shake them or thump them, hanging bedding and other laundry on the line, and generally working to air out the stale energy of winter and let in the fresh, new energy of spring. I even opened a few windows for a little while although the high is only about 55 today.
As the day goes on, I hope to get out for a little relaxation time, at least by sunset. It’s been a pretty day here in the Bogs so far and it would be nice to just sit and enjoy it for a few minutes or go for a short hike. It’s sunny, clear, and breezy. This is perfect hiking weather, something I’d rather be doing. But once the spring cleaning is finished, I’ll be glad I gave up a day or two of hiking to do it. It feels good to air everything out, toss out (recycle, donate, etc.) the old, and make room for the new.
Life in the Bogs 