Adventures

My Summer of Hope Gardens 2023

Another foggy morning in August captured my attention when the golden glow of the sun's rays framed the driveway. Ooh...that means it's time to grab my camera and investigate the messy flower beds I call hope gardens for summer 2023. I long for the moment I can perfectly frame a photo of any yellow flower.… Continue reading My Summer of Hope Gardens 2023

Going Gray

Underwhelmed to Overwhelmed Blogging Experience

Underwhelmed with writing a blog post lately? Underwhelmed with my silly posts of late? Now, that I've got us both nodding our heads, YES, I have the perfect cure to get us back to being overwhelmed with joy. LOL. Just kidding. Maybe not kidding, we'll see. Seriously, though, I've been pondering those underwhelmed feelings. I've… Continue reading Underwhelmed to Overwhelmed Blogging Experience

Adventures · Inspiration

My thoughts on photography composition

For the longest time, I struggled with composition.  I guess, in a way, I still do.  I've been green with envy of photographers who just get composition. It is easy now for me to grab my camera each moment I think I see something interesting. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.  I was looking… Continue reading My thoughts on photography composition

Adventures · Inspiration

Shhh, be still and quiet to get great shots of up-close photography

Every time I grab my camera, I have hopes of catching a shot of something special.  Of something that I hadn't planned on getting when I first headed out the door. I dwell in possibility.  - Emily Dickinson I crouch down low and get as close to objects I can, depending upon the lens I… Continue reading Shhh, be still and quiet to get great shots of up-close photography

Inspiration

Why yes, Black-Eyed Susans look like buttons to me

Let's take a Sunday Stills stroll, by taking a break with me to wander virtually through my Black-eyed Susan flower bed that is bursting with yellow splashes of joy. I'm glad Merriam-Webster agrees with me, a bud can be called a button. A quick Google check around the world and it appears according to the… Continue reading Why yes, Black-Eyed Susans look like buttons to me

Adventures · Inspiration

Bugs galore and flowers we adore

Nature will bear the closest inspection.  She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.  - Henry David Thoreau A random Sunflower plant is growing in my rocks - must've been a mouse or a vole that planted it there?  I love the tiny… Continue reading Bugs galore and flowers we adore