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Posted on October 30, 2010
Yes, I’m behind on blog posts. I’m still taking photos, but there’s just been so much going on that posting them hasn’t been a priority. Here’s a few of the ones I’ve done since my last post.
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Posted on August 26, 2010
I took a walk this morning as the sun was coming up. It has cooled off a little and I do believe I felt a hint of fall in the air.
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Posted on June 16, 2010
I was noticing how many lightning bugs (as we refer to them in the south) were out tonight and decided to try a long exposure and see if I could get any of the “sparks”. I didn’t have much luck with that, but when I started back into the house I noticed a lightning bug laying on the step, belly side up and still glowing. The only thing I can figure is it flew into the sliding glass door. I started to take a macro shot of it, then I thought hmmm….wonder if I could “light write” with it. I didn’t want to pick it up because I remember from my childhood how “icky” the green glowing stuff can be on your fingers, so I started trying to “write” with the camera leaving my “light” source stationary. This might not look like much, but it took me 34 shots to get this. It might be a simple initial, but it sure was hard to capture. If squiggly lines had been what I was after, it would only have taken 2 or 3 shots, but I wanted at least my first initial. Attempts at my full name failed miserably. 
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Posted on May 16, 2010
I actually took this photo late last night, after I had posted yesterday’s photo. Right after I posted yesterday’s photo I heard a loud “zzztttt” sound followed by a big pop, then the power went out. Since the sound was so close I went outside to see what had happened. At first I though lightning might have hit a transformer as we had storms off and on all day, but it wasn’t raining. I didn’t see anything unusual except the absence of lights. I went back inside and listened to the crickets chirp and a frog croak as the last bit of light faded from the sky. It was really a bit strange. No red, blue, or green blinking lights anywhere in the house….no lights on the cable box, modem, computers, no digital clock on the stove, microwave, or coffee pot. Total darkness.
What seemed like quite a while later I could here a big truck making its way slowly down my street. It was the power company repair truck. I went outside to see what was going on, as did several of my neighbors. The driver put the big supports down on the truck, then his partner got in the bucket and was raised up to the transformer. After they worked for a bit the power came back on. The driver came over to our little group of on lookers and told us a squirrel had tried to get in a spot it didn’t belong causing a fuse in the transformer to blow. He joked that the squirrel wouldn’t do it again though, because he was now “fried squirrel”. The workers also told us the power was out not only on our street, but also on the main road for about a quarter mile stretch, all because of the blown fuse from a nosey little squirrel.
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Posted on May 10, 2010
There’s a bush in my backyard that is full of these little tiny blooms. I have no idea what it is called. I loved the details in the little flower when I looked so close.
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Posted on April 25, 2010
I encountered a lot of these along a fairly short stretch of road today – in a small town that 35 years ago had only one traffic light, but now has a mall and several shopping centers. The road is being widened in what was once the middle of the town. Of course some people in Tennessee joke that this is our state bird because you see so many of them ….:)
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