Our World Tuesday: through the months of 2012

For my last post of 2012, I thought I'd start with a shot I took in January of 2012 and follow with one shot from each of the 12 months.

I didn't take the time to try and pick out shots I liked the best, necessarily.

They are fairly random because I just looked quickly at each month and grabbed a shot.

Since I store my photographs by the date they were taken, at least that's what I've done since 2006, it's easy to find one a month.

I also put key words in the folder names to help me find particular things I'm looking for.

The problem with some key words is that I've taken a zillion shots of the same things.

Still it helps sometimes to be able to search for particular things amongst my photo files.

It's so odd to me how the older I get, time accelerates.

As a child a week could seem like a long time and now the decades run together.

I guess the advantage to time speeding up is difficult times also whiz by.

Still, I can hardly believe that we are getting ready to start 2013.

I remember when the years we are in now were used in sci-fi shows as the space age type future.

 

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The Weekend in Black and White: Ice dumped out of bird bath

In the winter, I dump ice out of the bird baths and sometimes I photographed it. 

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Sky Watch Friday: Assorted

I hope everyone has had a happy holiday. I'm starting with a sunrise shot.

The shots in this post were taken over the last couple of weeks.

I've been finding it difficult to get sites to load on my browsers (I've tried different browsers) lately.

I'm going to try blogging again for a while and hopefully the browser issue will improve.  

It's weird because I'll try to load sites (including my blog but also a variety of formats) and will get a message that the site can't be found but after repeated tries most will load.

The next shot is one I took at sunrise.

The rest of the shots are sunset ones.

I think the shot below looks like a big fish.

I think the clouds at the bottom of the next shot look like warring fish.

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ABC Wednesday: W is for Wren and X for X-mas

When a Carolina Wren landed on my neighbor's X-mas wreath I decided to cheat and do one post for ABC Wednesday's W and X days. W is the theme this week and next week is X right in time for X-mas. I hope everyone has a happy holiday.

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SkyWatch Friday: Moody Mix of Sky Shots

Sometimes the sunset colors almost look like a mountain range to me.

Then the clouds break up a bit for something else.

Not very much blue lately so I snap it when I can.

There has been quite a bit of drama in the sky.

Sometimes just a peak at the setting sun through moody clouds.

Moody blues seems to fit the next shot although maybe moody grays is more accurate.

I think the sky below looks like a satin bedspread.

Tufts of pink make an appearance.

Sometimes the sky looks like someone has brushed it with a paintbrush loaded with several colors.

I watched the sky a long time at sunset several days ago.

Even without an actual sun dropping it was very interesting to me.

I like this time of the year.

I'll end with tufts of cotton candy in the sky.

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ABC Wednesday: V is for Vise

The victorious squirrel holds the pecan in its vise like grip.

 

Although they are pronounced the same, in the American/Canadian spelling vise is for the tool used for gripping and vice is for the sin. The British spelling has the tool spelled as vice like the sin. 

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The Weekend in Black and White: Calm

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SkyWatch Friday: The sun sets on November and rises on December

I thought I'd begin this sky watch post with some shots I took on the last day of November.

I've been seeing a lot of dancing clouds lately.

When the sun was going down there was a nice mix of of clouds, colors and contrails. 

I can see more of the sky now the the trees have shed their leaves.

I took a lot of sunset shots on the last day of November.

On the first day of December I caught the sunrise.

The clouds were brushed with pink.

Before the sunrise I also caught the moon before it set.

I like to catch the moon in the morning.

It was a particularly good day for it.

A few days later I captured the morning moon against the blue sky after the sun was completely up.

I got a lot of dancing clouds this week.

Just a week ago I wouldn't have been able to see as many of the cloud dancers because the oaks didn't give up their leaves until this week.

It's also fun to find them in the part of the sky not covered by branches.

I have so many trees that I usually have to crop them out to get the dancing clouds against a completely empty sky.

This is another week where I had trouble narrowing down the number of shots I used.

Next are some shot I took during sunset a few days ago.

While the sun went down I watched the jets disappear as the crossed the sky.

I see a lot of planes and helicopters but am usually not fast enough to zoom in and get them in my shots.

Sometimes the helicopters are so low and close I hear them when I'm inside my house.

The jets are quite high by the time they fly by my house so I don't hear them which is just as well.

I don't think I'd like to live too close to an airport.

The last shots were taken Tuesday.

They again demonstrate how much more I can see with bare winter trees than if they had their large leaves still on.

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