Month: December 2023

Winter has only now just started. We haven’t had any snowfall or below zero temperatures yet. But still, it’s not too early to think about spring and the color it brings.

I love the long road of sunlight shining down on the condo ground in this image.

West woods picking up a little snowfall.

They’re coming in with today’s delivery from up north.

After a nighttime training mission this one is making an approach to the landing field.

U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

The things we make. Can you imagine?

Most of the time the West Wood Branch runs dry. When we get rain day after day it will fill and there have been a couple of times where it spills over the banks and floods the yard. We built the bridge four years ago to give access to the other side of the woods.…

These two. Hardly never apart.

This one blooms in the winter with flowers that persist nearly until spring. She is more the gardener than me. I watch things grow. Sometimes water them and pick up fallen leaves and sticks. The orchid is one of those plants that almost begs me to get my camera and take a picture of it.…

They walked in the woods in the late afternoon that day. I love the long shadows on snow contrasting with the lines of the bare stand-up trees.

It’s the time of year again for the winter storms to bring snow instead of rain to our lives. I get to take the deck off the John Deere and put the snow blade on it. This will be the fourth year that I’ve had the snow blade. Each year we’ve had a big enough…

The flag was new. I waited until after noon on Memorial Day to display it for the first time. Dad had died two days prior, and I was feeling reverent and respectful. The flag is faded now with a bit of wear evident around the edges. I’ve added a longer pole to it, so it…

This display of a collection of political campaign buttons appeals to me for a number of reasons. One year I wore a button, it was green background with white letters that read “It’s time – Casey for Senate”. Four years later I wore a similar button that read “This time – Casey for Senate”. Casey…