ABC Wednesday: E is for elegant

E is for elegant and I think swans have an elegant beauty.

Swans also have elongated necks.

I tried to find a shot I'd taken of swans with bubbling water to use for effervescent but the water was very still in all the shots I could find with a quick look.

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Our World Tuesday: Counting the days to winter

Since I'm counting the days to winter, I'll begin with a late December shot I took of a male cardinal in my pecan tree. The rest of the shots were taken over the past few days or so.

The next shot is a recent one I took of a male cardinal in the same pecan tree.

I've been shooting the cardinals in the pecan tree quite a bit lately as they dry off from a bath on my deck. Below is a female cardinal bathing. She's having a bad hair moment.

 

The next two shots are of a male house finch bathing on my deck.

There are dozens of finches that live in my yard and bathe on my deck.

The rain bowed some of my crepe myrtle blossoms low enough for macro shots.

The next shot is a wider one of my crepe myrtle tree.

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The Weekend in Black and White: Light making pictures

I like the way light can draw on water.

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SkyWatch Friday: Mostly Stormy

We've had another week of mostly stormy gray skies.

I am such a broken record with this being the narrative week after week.

I did find a day with some blue and white in between the gray.

I enjoy the drama of clouds.

Wednesday it poured buckets of rain but around sunset some color came in.

It sounded like it was still raining because of all the water dripping off the trees and running out of the gutters.

I had already lowered my blinds for the night but I saw colors filtering through so I raised the blinds and couldn't believe we had a sunset. I realized it had stopped raining and all the dripping was left over from saturated trees and over flowing gutters.

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