Wait, How did You Do That?

Kathy has been weeding parts of the lawn by hand, since the weed killer that comes with fertilizer never seems to make a difference.  We hired one of those lawn companies for a couple of years, several years ago.  They came and fertilized and sprayed, and there were still weeds.  One time I went out to talk to the guy, and asked about some weeds in the lawn that looked like violets.  He had made several visits since the season started and the "violets" were still there.  So I asked him, and he said: "Oh, yeah, I could spray them..."  Huh?  Anyhow, Kathy decided to weed the lawn by hand.  I also noticed another woman doing the same thing at a house along my bike ride..   So how did I get this photograph?  I was flying my drone around the property for fun, and used that to take this overhead picture.

Rainstorm!

Early this afternoon we got a pretty good rainstorm.  So I got an umbrella and my toy camera and went out to look.  I love the way the Japanese Maple looks in the rainstorm.  Hard to put it into words, but I like the effect where the background above the tree gets lighter because we are looking through more rain.  Kind of like looking at trees in fog.

The Lost Hard Drive

You know what?  I used to be a good photographer.  Wait!  Where did that come from?  Well, I stumbled across an old hard drive from 2006 while digging around in my stuff.  I put it in an external case and connected it to my computer and there were some wonderful photographs there, that I had completely forgotten about!  They started a project at the paper where a photographer would go to a particular Zip Code and do a photo essay.  I chose Montauk, NY 11954.  I drove to Montauk and spent the day and into the night doing photographs.  I think the paper decided to abandon this project, and I had forgotten about it.  I have some wonderful photographs from that shoot, and this is one of them.  It is a child looking through those binoculars where you have to put a quarter into it in order to look through them.  I thought that this was funny because the binoculars mimic the child's face!

Into the Woods

Back to the infrared camera, on one of my walks.  This looks like a lovely woods to walk in, but you can't.  This property is surrounded by a chain link fence and has been for years.  There are two sites next to each other and years ago, one of the sites was covered with a clay "cap" because long ago it had a coal gas plant on it, and that resulted in pollution of the ground, which is not good because these properties go right to the harbor.  So this property sits here looking mysterious, which I love, but no one goes there.  There must be something wrong with it, however, or it seems that it would have been sold before this, maybe even for condos on the water.  Rather than convert the original infrared image to black & white, I decided that I loved the light blue tint to it, so left it that way.

Hanging On For Dear Life

This is such a great, silly photograph of Sam!  I walked into the living room and saw him like this, and it cracked me up!  I have no idea why he had both front legs spread out with his paws and claws dug in to the chair!  I just have no idea.  But it is the funniest thing.  I was desperately hoping that he wouldn't move when I reached over to  get my camera on the shelf right by the chair.  "PLEASE don't move!"  And he didn't, he just looked at me!  My lucky day.  A laugh and a photograph all at the same time!

No Dunkin' Donuts, Week 12

I'll tell you, the pressure was on today!  I have shot every imaginable photograph from inside the car, and a couple from outside the car, and I had no idea what I was going to do today.  I was sweating it, big time!  Then I noticed this picnic table near where we parked, and decided to bring my coffee and donut over to the table.  The table was kind of scummy, so we didn't want to actually sit there and have our morning coffee.  Maybe on another day, we could use the nicer table that we saw some distance away.  I guess you will have to tune in next week...   :-)

Two Clouds

After a beautiful sunny morning it was overcast most of the afternoon.  But then just before sunset, the clouds started breaking up, and the orange light of the setting sun illuminated them against the blue sky.  It was such a beautiful sight.  With everything going on in the last few days, I found that seeing this was uplifting.