For Y week, I took a photograph yesterday and I am using it for this post.
I thought I'd start with yellow yarrow for two Y words.
Next some white yarrow. I had to go to old photos since my yarrow is currently overrun with weeds.
Last is red yarrow although it looks pink in this shot.
I took the photograph below yesterday on the last day of the year, 2012. I can almost hear the cormorant say yum yum after catching a treat on a cold morning. The shallower part of the lake had a thin coating of ice but in spite of the deep part being liquid I would have yelled yikes if I jumped in.
Yellow flowers are very cheerful looking.
I'm glad I was able to enjoy my yellow rudbeckia (black-eyed susan) early in the season this year.
All of this shots were taken a few weeks ago.
Unfortunately with our excessive heat of late, most of these yellow flowers have turned brown.
The yellow sun causes a lot of damage when it burns too hot.
I thought one way to look back through the Years was to pick a shot from my first recreational walk of each of the years, beginning with 2008.
The shot above was taken on the first day of the year 2008 (if you used the Gregorian Calendar). Years are somewhat arbitrary with a variety of calendars but living in the western part of the world, I use the Gregorian Calendar.
The shot above was taken on the first day of the year 2009. The shot below was taken on the first day of the year 2010.
The year of 2011 began with lingering snow left from December 2010, followed by ice and messy weather. Therefore, the shot below of my first recreational walk of 2011 was taken on January 16 of that year. The lake was frozen but the paths were mostly clear by that day.
The first day of this year, 2012, was perfect for walking and the shot below was therefore taken on January 1, 2012.
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When I see a yield sign like the one below, I know what to do. I slow down and stop if a car is coming and give it the right of way.
It's hard to see it, but there is a pedestrian crosswalk not too far from the stop light in the shot below. In the middle of the crosswalk is a yield sign and that's clear to me. I know to slow down and stop if someone is getting ready to walk through the crosswalk. I think it's a strange place for a crosswalk since there is a stop light so close for pedestrians to use but at least I know what to do because there is a yield sign at that crosswalk.
I find crosswalks like the next one confusing because they don't have yield signs. As a pedestrian, I'm not sure when I see a car coming if they are supposed to yield to me. I know if someone is half way across a cross walk with a warning sign, cars must stop for the pedestrian but I'm never sure if the warning signs operate like a yield sign.
There's another warning sign below for a pedestrian crosswalk in the shot below although it may be hard to see. The point I'm trying to make is I never know when it's just a warning sign, if a pedestrian who sees a car coming should wait for the car before crossing or if it's up to the car to slow down and wait for the pedestrian even if they aren't in the crosswalk yet. I wish all crosswalks had yield signs too because then I know what is supposed to happen.
In addition to the lights that flash at a railroad crossing, indicating that a car should stop, this one has a warning sign which is bizarre to me. Does it mean you should slow down and yield to runaway trailers escaping from their trucks? I hope that doesn't happen much.
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The photograph I use for my blogger profile picture is one taken when I was quite young.
The next photograph was taken, when I was a relatively young adult, by my husband a few years after we were married.
I am not so young anymore but I thought I'd end with a shot taken a year ago to show the woman behind the blog. As I have left my youth behind, there is clearly a lot more of me than there was when I was young.
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