My online journal where I share my interests in photography, nature, journaling, fountain pens, bicycling, coffee life, spirituality and the mystery of it all.
I am on my way back to Colorado. I made a quick trip down to Phoenix to celebrate my mothers 29th birthday (for the umpteenth time), yesterday. I suspect the airport will be crawling with strange people other than me. Maybe I’ll get to see a witch fly by on her broom. Happy Halloween to everyone. Don’t eat too much candy. 🙂
We will celebrate my mothers birthday today, We keep telling her it’s 81 years but the number 29 seems to come up once in a while. Heart surgery a couple years ago has slowed her down so we want to be able to spend as much time as possible with her and dad. This was taken this past summer while they were out visiting for a few days. Happy Birthday, Mom!
Today is my youngest grandsons 14th birthday. Happy Birthday, Devin, and I hope you have an awesome day! I love you!!
Paul had an interesting post asking the question “does size matter.” I admit to being one of those consumers who is always looking at the latest camera, lens, camera bag or software update. I also confess to having too many camera bags and maybe too many camera lenses. In response to Paul’s post, for me size does matter but not in the pixel count. The physical size is what matters to me. As I’m one of those nuts who always carries a camera with them the weight and ease of access is important to me. I almost always have my DX size DSLR camera with me and and find at times a smaller camera would be easier to carry. A year and a half ago I purchased the Canon G12 and have been pleased with the quality the images and its ease of use. As I watch the market of mirrorless cameras improve my desire to add one of those cameras to my bag has increased. Seeing the results and reading the reviews on the Olympus OMD and the Fujifilm X-Pro1 and it’s little sibling the X-E1 (Sigh) has pushed my “consumer lust button.” And, these cameras have a larger pixel count than my present DSLR. Of course then I’d have to search for another camera bag for the new kit, buy SD cards instead of CF cards, a new flash, read another camera manual then take a trip to some city for a couple days of photography.
… from two weeks ago.
I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I’m off again on a trip. See ya later.
The solution of the problem of life is life itself.
Thomas Merton
Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.
Over the past few years my idea of “living life” has changed. I have been working at spending more time in nature, respecting nature and all life forms, spending time with family and friends, laughing at myself and others, taking more risks, walking my own paths, worrying less, learning to accept others views, traveling, photography, maintaining my health, being grateful and, of course, watching sunsets.
When I take Prospect Rd east and pass over the interstate I find myself in farm land and pastures. Beyond that about 20 miles will be the open plains area with grass, yucca plants and cactus. Anyway, just the other side of the interstate there is a farmers field where I usually see sunflowers. However, this year he planted something different. As I drove by a few days ago there were several works out there placing what I thought were potatoes in burlap sacks. I thought it would make for an interesting image so I stopped to take a few shots. After stepping out of the car my nose let me know these were not potatoes but onions. Whew! Needless to say a half dozen images was plenty then moved on. 🙂
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
Albert Einstein
What an awesome day we had this past Sunday. After rain on Friday and Saturday everyone in town headed out to a park or trail. My choice was the Environmental Learning Center that follows along the Cache la Poudre River. The river actually spits in this area and creates a rather large island that supports native plants and plenty of wildlife. I sauntered along the Wilcox trail enjoying the warmth and quiet. As I had signed up for the photo-walk on Saturday but did not make it, I made Sunday my own photo-walk, sorta like Paul did. I had a good time.