Category: timely

what seemed to me the best was the bedroom

The maple is one of my favorite trees at the condo. I like its looks. But it is a dirty tree. In the spring it spits out leaf shoots that cover the ground and get stuck in everything. Leaves fall constantly. All year. The twirly seed flyers fall constantly and plug up everything. I have…

Bob cut the figures from plywood when he did. We’ve painted them three times.

I like the canvas filter. Don’t use it too much. I like it here on the west wood in winter stand. We’re getting some rain this morning.

West wood here. Winter. The weather here has been remarkable! Blessed splendor.

We’re on the western edge of the eastern time zone. Yesterday was truly the shortest day of our year. I feel the days ahead getting longer starting now.

This rig makes a steamin picture right here. Windblast across the edges right there.

Same or similar image but processed with different set of filters and perspective tools. Some like one but not the other.

It’s not a ski hill. Looks like it could be though. That or a minibike racetrack. I could do some photo edit magic and place bike riders racing up the hill around the imaginary bend. In the meantime, I’ll just look and wonder where the shadows come from.

Fairly early morning with Ollie out at the feeding station. There’s a slope to this image. I think the horizon is level, but the yard appears to slope upward because of how I was holding the camera at an angle. I like pictures of the woods to contain a bit of mystery. Something not quite…

Display of sunflowers at the Lume Indianapolis featuring Van Gogh. Display consists of physical plants mixed over mirror panels to create illusion of great fields of sunflowers. We really enjoyed the Lume.

Things you thought you knew seem different. It’s like the edges move. Something there? I don’t walk in the woods after dark.

Keeping this theme of spring going. We are having exceptional weather the past few days. Blue sky, no wind, and temps in the mid-sixties. Dad used to say, “we’ve been fortunate with the weather”. I agree with him, and we have indeed been fortunate. Even still, it is winter, and nature’s colors are muted for…

The peak of spring. It lasts so briefly you wouldn’t believe it even existed if not for writers, painters, photographers and all artists that capture it at a moment to savor throughout the year.

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…