50/366 winter wheat, and sky

kinda strange, isn't spring lovely?

i asked for moments of beauty

guess i just need to pay attention?

this flower, red butterfly, green pesto

what to do?

reflections found here

fun with picasa

fun with reality

morning in the michaux

our hood

just because.

I got stuck in trying to make a wonderful and celebratory birthday post but was unable to make one that was quite so, and so I ended up here. I like that a number of these pictures are just about playing. With the old 35 mm pictures there was the option of being a purist who without the ability to alter, tint, and transmogrify  had to depend on the image to be what it would be. Not so much of that these days! 

This year more than any other I can remember with my now fading and aged brain, I have been struck with so many moments of beauty...in my world here and in those people that I have come across on the way. 

You Are Not Going to Believe This

La la la, I take a walk into the yard. Tillie is at her post. 

Very pleased to see the purple coneflower coming along,

In the abandoned firepit area, I make a silly joke to myself about 

"I've fallen and I can't get up," but even I don't laugh.

The sun is setting,

I hear a rustle, rustle...

Can't believe that there is A WOODCHUCK IN A TREE!

Amazingly I am able to get a picture while he is frozen in the "if I don't move she can't see me pose," which is totally ineffective because he is 

A WOODCHUCK IN A TREE!

Second Street Birds, Digital Collage