Outdoor pics
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Oh, Oh, Oh – Fireworks in New Mexico
As summer officially ends later this week, I thought I would post a homage to my favorite thing about summers. I love summer nights when you are with family and friends, everyone huddled together on chairs or laying on a blanket in the middle of a field, looking up at the sky in hushed anticipation. The first slow…
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Renn Faire Fairies
Hubby and I have been going to renaissance fairs since we were in grad school. We’ve been to fairs in Indiana, Maryland and quite a few different ones in New York (Sterling & NY Capital District). While we’ve enjoyed them all, our all time favorite is the one in Tuxedo Park, NY – the New York…
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Budding
Budding flowers give the promise of new life. However, when I look at magazines like Better Home and Gardens or gardening websites, buds are often left out of pictures unless there is a particular focus of a horticultural procedure or planting guide. Yet, I find buds to be a testament of not only the evolution to come but…
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Dragonfly Days
While on a much-needed vacation in the Adirondacks, we took our son and his friend fishing at Rockwood Lake. While they did their best to hook the “big one” in terms of pike and trout, I focused my Cannon Rebel SSL1 on something a bit smaller and no less elusive – dragonflies. There were only two…
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Carpel Diem: Southern, Northern and Learning About Magnolias
This is my third post featuring some of the shots I took on Mother’s Day at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens. For this post, I decided to focus on the beauty of the magnolias this year and added a few more pictures from a 2009 trip to Mount Vernon. ……………….. I often thought of magnolias as a southern thing. Cliches…
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It’s Beautiful Being Green: Of Ferns, Frog and Flowers
This is my second post featuring some of the shots I took on Mother’s Day at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens. For this post, I decided to focus on the varied shades and shapes of green. ……………….. There is a bit of magic to the first sightings of green in spring. The first hints of life after a…
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Outdoor wonders off the beaten path
I swear by The Lonely Planet’s guides for finding out the best places to see, stay and eat when we travel. So for our family vacation last fall, I dog-eared the pages, used post-it flags and marked-up the the print version of the guide to New Mexico as we planned our trip. I wanted to…
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Rainy Day Images: Of Amphibians and Other Water Based Animals
Water is my element. I don’t know if it is because I am astrologically a Pisces or if it is because I grew up near the ocean, but I am fascinated by ocean waves, babbling brooks, still ponds and roaring rapids. I’m also fascinated with all creatures who call these watery places their primary home.…
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Flowers, Flowers, Flowers – Let’s Get Growing
Spring weather didn’t come to us in upstate NY until about a month after it officially was supposed to start. The flowers are not yet in bloom like those in the pictures below. Consider them my photographic blooming wishes. Can’t wait to get out and get some shots this year!
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Spherical Wonders
Every spring for the last 4 or 5 years my family and I take a short hours trek to Williamstown, Mass stopping by a quaint little pull off park called Mount Hope. We bring a picnic, climb down to the water, skip stones, and I (of course) take pictures. We brought some bubbles with us…