Project 365 – Day 83 – Something happened overnight
To photographers, this screams “Photo Op”! So I’m packing my bag and heading down to Annapolis to see what I can see in the snow. Hope you’re having a better spring day than I.
To photographers, this screams “Photo Op”! So I’m packing my bag and heading down to Annapolis to see what I can see in the snow. Hope you’re having a better spring day than I.
Canon G12, macro setting. Edits in Color Efex Pro: Fog, Foliage, Pastel, Image border. We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it’s vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed for our safety, to it’s security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the […]
All year I tend to a tiny painted ceramic pot that holds a bulb that has been there for years. Wait and wait I do, while watering and feeding. Waiting for spring for the pair of red Amaryllis flowers to blossom. The time is nearly here! Spring is […]
I went up with a couple of friends to visit the Home & Garden Show in the Maryland fairgrounds. I’m still trudging through the photos that I took today. Especially the orchid images from their orchid show which was spectacular. For tonight, let’s all think of green. Perhaps […]
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin Canon 7d, 100-400mm f/4.5 L at 250mm. Lightroom Edits: Clarity -14, Luminance smoothing +24. Edits in Nik Color Efex Pro 4. Bicolor Filter […]
You know that Rolling Stones song? “You Can’t Always Get What You Want…But if you try sometimes, you’ll find…..you get what you need?” Well, the last couple of birding expeditions I’ve gone on this past week, this song rings true. I go out with visions of what I […]
All this winter drab is making me crave color. Spring color, bright color, color that is bold, color that is muted. Any color, all color. Let’s all think of spring with azaleas blooming, a true hallmark of the American south, dotting the landscape and tucked with the trees. […]
This is an out-an-back 9.8 mile hike along the Mason-Dixon Trail in Pennsylvania along the Susquehanna River. Hike through Peavine Island, Mill Creek and Oakland Run on rocky and uneven terrain. Several short climbs are in the hike. Total cumulative elevation gain is 2849 feet. DIRECTIONS TO HIKE […]
Tucked away in a lush and verdant oasis is a 25-acre estate near Rock Creek Parkway in Washington D.C.. Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens, the last home of Post cereal’s Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood estate offers an expansive garden and an exceptional art collection. […]