Musings

This picture and last night’s picture were taken one day and five-and-a-half minutes apart. We had rain in the late afternoon, which, I’m guessing, sapped some of the dramatic color.

Posted at 10:22 PM | Comments Off on Sky speculation

And from the sky descended an airplane carrying precious cargo…loved ones visiting from the Left Coast.

Posted at 9:44 PM | Comments Off on Aren’t we lucky?!

Look at all the visual contrasts! Color, shapes, living vs inanimate—the whole shebang!

Fireworks began precisely at 9:15pm, and they’re now booming in various locations in the southern direction…with nothing sounding in the northern quadrants. This is audio contrasts?

Posted at 9:44 PM | Comments Off on Delving into contrast

I have irregular success with flash and fleurs. Today, the gods favored me. [Framing, not so much.]

Posted at 9:42 PM | Comments Off on Working the odds

This lovely fleur is of the genus Agapanthus, and it hails from southern Africa, if my web sources are correct (and there is no dissent, so I can assume it’s the truth*).

* In these times, truth may be a poor word to choose (in any usage whatsoever), as so many American citizens seem willing to…uhem, I’ll just stop here. Apologies for the near-rant.

Posted at 9:22 PM | Comments Off on Botanical specifics

This chain is becoming abundant along I75 and I don’t know how far afield. We hadn’t stopped, but today was the day The Guru said: their price is good.

I thought we were just getting gas, but he wanted to make a quick tour of the sales floor. Wow. I decided the establishment seems like a combo of a convenience store, truck stop, and Walmart…plus barbecue. And almost everything has the logo slapped on it.

My theory is that it’s an inside joke that the figure is in a circle…a visual play on buckyball. I am mystified as to why it is wearing a baseball cap.

Posted at 8:12 PM | Comments Off on Watch out for lightning

I’ve been trying to remember to get a shot of this sign for a while. It’s southbound (dun) just south of the mosque at, I think, where US23 and I75 meet, south of Perrysburg Ohio.

One shot, and wouldn’t you know, it’s out of focus.

Posted at 10:50 PM | Comments Off on Not circling back to try again

Sometime in the dark hours, I woke up and was fuzzy about why I woke up. Soon, I realized there was a snuffly noise outside…pretty sure it was a deer, perhaps the doe we’ve been seeing, calling to her wee fawn (tracks just over an inch long).

By dawn, we had rain.

Then, it stopped for a few hours and I went down to the beach.

Sometime around two, more rain came in, with lightning, thankfully in the distance. Just after three, the power went out. And the rain quit. So much for the mint sauce I was planning to make for our communal dinner.

The power came back on about 7:30. I was so happy.

Posted at 9:38 PM | Comments Off on Living with weather

This was one of those days when the weather seems okay first thing in the morning, then goes toward the breezy, which turns to windy and rainy, and darned unpleasant. I took this picture when things were still mild.

Any potter makes a big pile of discards. Some can be converted into yard-art, especially by a loving mama. I’m sorry the dragon-face to the right is out of focus; I don’t quite understand how the focus got so shallow.

Posted at 11:09 PM | Comments Off on Moss and art

I got The Beast fired up today, and got tired when I had worked my way down near the lake. I “posed” this photo; it’s The Beast’s beauty shot.

Title is TIC, that is: tongue in cheek.

Posted at 9:10 PM | Comments Off on What debate?