I've got to interrupt my picture series to document Daniel testing the new zip line.

You'll have to look closely at the first one - he starts from 22 feet up. This zip line is right behind the house. It was suppose to be a test but I think we're going to leave it there. Alex and Daniel are going to start another one tomorrow that will begin in the Treehouse and end about a football field away. (The one that went up today is about 250 ft.!)

Monday's Picture

So did you notice there was no Sunday picture? I just did too much stuff until I ran out of time. Some computer problems had me in bad need of an attitude adjustment. Here's today's picture! I was getting the camera to go outside and realized that there was a picture right in front of me if I could get it. First morning with no A/C and the windows open.

Saturday's Picture

Today's picture is an "assignment". I was asked to do a picture for the Wood County Master Gardener web site. I don't know if I got what they want but this is what I took.

Friday's Picture

We were at the coffee shop in Winnsboro after a walk around town looking for photo opportunities and finding little. We were about to leave when this gentleman came out of the store across the street to have a smoke.

Thursday's Picture

I feel like I'm cheating on this one. I was working in the yard this afternoon and was running out of time for my picture and then noticed a frog sitting on a lily pad in the pond. I ran in the house, grabbed the camera, and took the picture. In uploading it I realized that the lens had fogged up on me bringing it from the cool house into the hot and very humid outdoors. So this is a second picture for today and there's nothing special about it (except it's a very nice Belinda's Dream). I've learned that flowers can make simple and impressive shots especially when taken with a long lens. BTW (and I confessed this last year), I usually take several shots of my "picture" of the day. I do select only one subject and I keep only one picture but I give myself several trys to find the best interpretation. That's always a learning experience!

Wednesday's Picture

There's a lot of hay being cut now around here. This cutting is just down the road at Oscar's place. Wish I could have gotten the smell in the picture!

Tuesday's Picture

It's been a busy day today with four hours of work on the greenhouse this morning and another two or three getting the computer fixed and trying to solve a software problem. So when I went out the door I didn't have a great deal of hope in finding something I liked today - even told Glynda I should go into town since I've been working Wildernest pretty good. But I stood in front of the house and saw the little statue peeping through a hole in the crepe myrtle. It's nice.

Monday's Picture

I worked at the greenhouse this morning and it's next door to a power station that has the huge power lines running from it. I'm used to seeing these towers in the gray galvanized color but had noticed the rust color of the ones here on an earlier workday. When you combine that with the rusting row of heavy mountings it does make a interesting picture.

I've been scolded by my granddaughter

And she's right. In her comment about yesterday's picture she said I should have waited for the correct light. I found out today that the correct light comes about five hours later than the time I took the picture. This afternoon I returned to the Treehouse and took a group of pictures. It was an interesting experiment. The sunlight was filtering through the trees and hitting the window in different patterns and intensity. Once the camera even focused through the window on the trees beyond. Here's one picture and the link to the others on Snap Fish.

Sunday's Picture

Not much of a shot - but, on this day when the temperature isn't even reaching ninety degrees, it's a reminder that the worst of summer is behind us. It's an American Elm and it's a "me first" tree when it comes to the colors of autumn.

Saturday's Picture

This one is a detail from the stained glass window in the Treehouse. It probably would have been better if I'd taken it a little later in the day when the sun was more direct. That could have been a challenge though waiting for a sunbeam to find it's way through the trees and fall on the window.

Friday's Picture

We had storms last night that left us without electricity. Long story shorter we got up early and went into town for breakfast and got back home shortly after seven. The 70 degree weather felt great and we took the opportunity to walk down to sit in the Treehouse for a bit and I took this picture. I did a little work on it to get the feeling I was after - shading it, adding a grain to it, and removing some of the color. The original is down below.

Thursday's Picture

We've got a lot of these along the trail to the Treehouse right now. I brought one home and let in pose on the marble rolling board.

One Photograph a Day

Last May (2008) I engaged in a little project where I took one photograph a day for two weeks. It was a good exercise in seeing what's around us all the time that we take for granted - a "stop and smell the roses" sort of thing. I've decided to do that again and here is photograph number one. We've got a big tree right behind the gazebo that is covered with little plum-like fruits and it probably is some kind of wild plum. The tree is big and the fruits are small - nickle size.

Wood County Master Gardener Project - Wood County Special Ed Greenhouse in Quitman

We've been working on the greenhouse for it seems like forever and today was a milestone day. The back section is almost finished now.

This is the way it looked when we got there this morning. (You can double-click these to enlarge the pictures.)

Then the shade cloth went on.


Then the plastic

From inside with just the shade cloth on.

From inside after the plastic was on - with a whole crew working outside on the plastic on the end. It got really hot really quick - until we plugged in one of the fans!

Next work day we'll finish installing a door in the back section and put hardware on both doors, install the vent between the two sections, and cap the wall between the two sections. Then it will be on to the front wall of the front section.

August 1st Sunset

In photographing sunsets it's a truism that you don't have much time to do it. But I've never seen it so obviously demonstrated as in these two photo's. The one on the top was take 44 seconds after the one on bottom. Look at the huge difference in the brightness of the clouds!