The Quiet One

Sometimes -

 

You know, sometimes the perfectly exposure picture is boring!  Occasional it does paid to be on the darkside or on lightside. Took this picture last friday, sitting outside eating my lunch. Could have spent all afternoon outside.

However-

I wanted to learn more about Painter Essential and what I could create with it. Spent the afternoon figuring out what exactly I could do with the brushes. Drawing on a paper and drawing with a graphic tablet are two different things. At least I don't feel bad about wasting stuff. Somehow manage to come up with something interesting art work. Everything is abstract since I deal with real stuff in the photos and poems.

Yes there's in the abstract paintings or artworks but why does everything have to reveal ? Life should have a bit of mystery to it. Another thing I'm doing with the projects I do with Painter, is bring them into Photoshop. There I can adjust the color a bit or take one my abstract photos and layer it on the artwork. Gives the painting a wonderful dimension to it. It's an aspect I'm going explore this summer. Would love to tried create new texture using paper and other things.

I'll post one the artworks tomorrow.

Will I or won't I

Will or won't I get to post that picture I wanted to post last night?

I'm hoping that I can. Actually I was all set to post when I lost my internet last night. When I left for work this morning, it was still off. Grr. However tonight, it's thunderstorms that might win tonight's round.

Oh well.

Crack, Boom and got luckly in a way.

Well yesterday was an interesting day. Found out around 11am that my area was under a tornado watch untill 6pm. Then later on Noaa put us a under a thunderstorm watch too. Then storms didn't really show up in the area untill 6 but most of them went either around us and just miss us. Yet they were close that it kept me off the computer for the night. Also cause the electric to go out for a bit.

However!

Around 9pm, one storm did pass through with one great light show. I just sat on the floor and watch a couple streaks arc across the sky. Once that left, the air was much cooler, Which is good for the people in some parts of Wayne County, They got hammered by the storms via hail and wind. The local weatherguy brought in a bag of hail that Father callected for him. They were almost two inches big! They had on the news too, people who at a supermarket when then hail came . When it was done, the parking lot was white.  There is still some area with any power. If all goes well, they'll get it back tommorrow.

My library has been having an interesting visitor lately. A black bear!

But he or she needs stop coming around real soon. School will be ending soon, so more kids will be coming to library. (Unless the gas prices keeps them ) There's a few who would tried to say to the bear. My co-worker had a bear who went into her a garage and help itself to the garabge. The month of June is normal the time the bears like to wander around, well this year. They are really wandering around.

It's hot

Oh what a hot weekend!!

It's been been pretty in the 90s for most the weekend, which naturally lead to me to watching the radar Sunday afternoon. Most the storms either went north or south of me. Now the one around 7:30pm nailed this area with a pretty good show of lighting and thunder. Was hoping for one for tonight, hmm it looks like tomorrow will be show time.

The picture above was taken yesterday. It was one the storm that New Jersey. It did play around with the color to make the trees all black. Also a good way to hide a telephone pole too.

With all the thunderstorms around on Sunday. Stay off the computer and spent the afternoon revising poems.  These poems came from a notebook that was started a couple years ago. For some reason, I never revise them.  So it was interesting, since my voice in the poem has change since then. Couple were x off and won't be revise at all. They just didn't seem right now.

Bad boy pt2 and hello there little one

What? I'm being good, I was just hungry.

Best thing I ever did was to buy that Canon Powershot S3 with 12x zoom lens. A great camera for photographing nature. Well now it's call, Canon Powershot S5. So with the camera in hand I got this shot. Which I had to shoot through the living room window unless I wanted scare the little one. So the color and the sharpness is little off.

Bad Boy!!!!!!!!!!

Now don't you even think about it. You'll regret it.




Now look what you did, you got seed all over your arms. Plus you might break the bird feeder and I won't be happy about that one.



Oh well.

The bird feeder survived the bear encounter and the bear did finally leave. Got some excellent photos too. I'll post more tomorrow. There's another happy camper about the bear, the local chipmunk. He or she is stuffing its cheek with the spilled seed.

Another baby picture

I haven't seen the mother  lately, so I think she has move to another location. Well at least I got some good ones.

Great Weekend

It's a great weekend when you have baby turkeys to photograph. They are going down my front steps trying to catch up with Mommy. The mother brought then around a few times over the weekend.The funny part about them, they kinda look like baby ducks too.

Another good thing about the weekend, the last two days were above 70F and sunny!! it was another beautiful today with a T-storm passing through late in the afternoon. The other two went north of us when they came through earlier.

Having a chuckle with this flower. It's a purple flower who for the most part is blue on all the photos I took of it tonight. A few tweaks on the camera and in Photoshop got the purple to come out some more. I have the same trouble with my purple African violets. Must be the purple coloring in the flower that goofs the cameras up. Because it did it with my Kodak too.

Pollen colored woodpecker?

There's a bit a discussion on this bird. It looks like a downy woodpecker but a that woodpecker is mostly white on the belly. Well this one is yellowish with a touch of green toss in. So the question is, is the tree's pollen coloring this bird this color or is it, a natural color? I never seen this colored bird before. It has been raint for a couple day and the oak pollen is heavy this year

I do have a bird book and I don't see it except as a regular downy woodpecker ? Even then I hoping that I remember the right woodpecker. There was another below it that look simlier to this one. Might have to get Carol over here to figure this one out.

I'm also hoping this post is looking alright. Typepad has made changes to the compose area, I like the changes but I think my font settings got change. So any goofs are because the new system.

What's next - snowflakes

Brr... It's been chiily not warm this past week. A few patron who came in today , pretty much said the same comment. "It feels like winter." Actually according to Mom, there was a patch of frost on the roof when she got up. Considering  when I woke up around 1:30 am becaase I was cold, not surprising. Already set the heat at 60 for tonight.

Got lucky this time and my cold was only a minor one. Did manage to type up five poems on Sunday. Please what I have so far this year. There's enough poems now I can do a printing session on Wednesday. Oh yes that rocks. As for the photography, nothing really new. Blame that on my cold and the rainy weather we been having. Guess I'll have to come up with something.