Geese through the globe

This was taken late January in the park. Working with the globe refraction is a learning curve.

Coeur d'Alene board walk

This was taken last summer while I was traveling with my group. We were in Coeur d'Alene ID and walking around finding all the Mudgy and Millie statutes in the park. This was a grab shot and had to hurry to catch up with the others. I liked the repeating roof points to the end of the dock.

Globe and water glasses

This was an experiment with my globe, water glasses and the funky wrapping paper.

Kootenai Falls

Kootenai Falls is located along Highway 2 west of Kalispell, MT. Beautiful glacier blue water and too big to capture in one photo.

Broken Cars and Trucks

 First step in recycling damaged vehicles. Cars are stack 7 high and will be crushed and transported to  own of 3 or 4 locations in America and melted down-- extensive process - and then flattened for the steel to be re-used.

This is another view of the stacked vehicles.  Was not able to go any further in to get better photos since the owner said that we shouldn't be inside the fence. Then he gave us a total overview of what happens to the metal. Nice man at Ace Salvage.

Tetons again

Tetons again. These barns are located on the same road as the famous Mormon Row barns. Photo was taken at sunset.

Spring and back to winter

With my shortened camping trip to Guernsey State Park., I chose to came back to Cheyenne because we had a big storm coming in. We got over 14 inches of snow on May 18 and 19. These are photos from the park and had to watch for overhead branches that were damaged from the snow.

 At least one side is colorful for the firemen to find it.

The Castle

This is the Castle and is located at Guernsey State Park, WY. It was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, (CCC) and is a picnic shelter with beautiful views over the lake. The construction is awesome. 

Teton Barn

This is that famous, most photographed barn on Mormon Row. I have been there several times and usually photograph it at sunrise. This was at sunset and I was totally disgusted with the forest service while I was there since they were doing a controlled burn. You can see the smoke against the Tetons. It is not mist or fog that we sometimes see.

The Eagle Has Landed

This was taken this April in the city park 2 blocks from my house. Eagles pass through town on their way to a better location. They like to sit in the trees above the walking path and look out over the lake for their next meal.

Mesa Arch

This is from a location that has tripod divots from all the photographers that have been there.  The trick is to be there before sunrise to catch the sun on the rock. This iconic place is in Canyonlands close to Moab, and Utah is such a beautiful state that I have been there several times.

Creative fence

This fence using old wheels is in South East Washington in the Palouse.

Eagle is back

How nice to go to the park and find an eagle hanging out near the lake.

Ugg, Spring?

Just had to verify what I expected at 8 thousand feet this early into Spring. Yip, no leaves yet! It is so early that the Forrest service has all the gates locked across the roads into Vedauwoo still. It is frustrating but some macho individuals won't stay off a muddy wet road and they destroy it. This road was partially open and then I had to walk about a mile in.

This is what I call winter ugly...Now this would be beautiful with fresh layer of snow, or frost on the trees. Still waiting for the leaves to pop out.

Other side of the fence

 The other day I saw View Bug photos based on a fence theme. I have decided to see what I can find this year. This one was taken after a rain and the sun came out with the reflection in a puddle.

End of the year - one day at a time

These clocks are the symbolic completion of my one year challenge to take a picture a day. Thanks Judy for getting me motivated again, if only for awhile.  During the year, I was pushed to learned several new photography technicals and was challenged to always be on the look out for possible photos that I could post. It has opened up my eyes and vision and gotten me away from photographing mostly landscapes.  It also made me try harder to achieve taking an interesting and better photos.

With this post, my shinny spoon is back again the other two images are from Hobby Lobby.

I enjoyed doing the blog, but also found it time consuming and labor intensive at times. I am ready for a break from this task and have not ruled out picking it up again in a different format. I will let you know if I start posting again. For now... catch ya down the road and thanks for viewing.

Some left over photos

My first post for this year long challenge was on Dec. 30, 2015 and I have posted 351 times through out the year. Missed a few days while I was camping in awesome mountains. I have kept a file of "post ready" photos to pull from and these are from that file that I did not get around to using. The above is a Utah image.

 My favorite tree is again.

Remember the horse tails from an earlier post? Well this is the front end and he is looking at me with an attitude.."what ya doing lady!"

This is a bison from Grand Tetons having lunch.

And another view of the beautiful Aspens this fall.

Cherries, not apples

After photographing the Rainier cherries I realized that they could also look like apples. I took the messy looking stems off and sprayed them with water. While photographing them (3 pm) my nice sun coming through the window went away and on looking up I notice the sun had gone behind a 3 story pine tree  - okay maybe 2 story. Cherries were gone by the next day, so didn't re-photograph them. Yum.

And is life a bowl of cherries? Hmm or like a box of chocolates as Forrest Gump said.

Gears in a clock

More reflections in a spoon.

Zagged zig zags

Distorted zig zags through the water glass. While at Hobby Lobby a couple of weeks ago I found some new back ground paper to experiment with.