Day 696 Smoky

Smoky has a hot spot and he needs a collar. I looked out the kitchen window and realized the blue collar went well with the wet patio.

Day 695 post 2, Man Walking

Walking along South Ninth Street.

Day 695 Old Building on Keyes Road

It rained today, Yeah! then the sun came out, Yeah! What a day, Yeah

Day 694 Weeds

Believe it or not I actually had about six other photo's to choose from, but in the end I chose an image with nothing in it.

Day 693 Open Shaw and Sons

I love photographing this old metal building owned by Open Shaw and Sons.

Day 692 Mysterious Lady

I took this picture yesterday morning while on my way to work.

Day 691 Smoky

I caught a glimpse of Smoky with his nose to the glass.

Day 690 Foggy Morning

There was a beautiful moon up in a still dim sky while I drove to work this morning.

Day 689 Road to Nowhere

I love these country dirt roads.

Day 688 Drive to Work

Have I said before that I love a rainy morning? This image was taken in Riverbank.

Day 687 Country Morning

I was able to work at a small country school today, so here are my three favorite pictures from my drive to work. I really enjoy the top and bottom image, but I feel like the middle one brings them all together.

Day 686 Merlot and Charbay

I have wanted to take lights out and photograph the horses for a long time now. Finally I did.

Day 685 Man moving along, post 3

It's not often I post three times. But I am not a good editor of my own work,

Day 685 Poor Pit-bulls post 2

I photographed the first pit-bull while driving to work this morning. The second pit-bull was photographed on my way home. I actually got out of the Jeep to take his picture.
Yes I have photographed this dog before, he's just a few posts down. I hate his situation.

Day 685 post 1 People in Cars

I took a two pictures of people in cars while driving home. Here they are.

Day 684 Disney and Stripes

I figured it was time to get a new background. It is my goal to photograph Disney on many different backgrounds.

Day 683 post 2 Disney an Orange Fronted Conure

It's been a long time since I've photographed Disney. I thought if I put some water out maybe I'd get lucky and he'd take a bath.

Day 683 Smoky at the Dog Park

My husband and I had a bit of time this morning so we decided to take the dogs to the park.

Day 682 Another Poor Dog

Driving home I noticed this dog chained next to highway 33. I called Animal Control who said they can't do anything because the guy who owns the dog is not breaking any laws. Apparently he gives the dog a cup of food in the morning and it has water in a bucket. The dogs job is to guard hay. The dog was very nice to me, and even appeared to say thank you for the food I left him.

Day 681 Merlot

Day 680 Drive to Work

I forgot to upload these yesterday. I suppose it doesn't matter.

Day 679 Pelicans

My husband and I celebrated our 18th anniversary by taking a whale sight seeing tour. There were no whales to be seen. Oh well I absolutely love pelicans.

Day 678 post 2 Black Cows

I took a drive to La Grange and was able to catch a frame of cows along the way.

Day 678 Old White House

How much do I love Old places? Let me count the ways, 1, 2, 3...

Day 677 Old Head Stones

Since my mothers passing I have been working on a family tree. Which taught me about a site that photographs graves renewing my interest in old cemeteries. I drove by this one a week or so ago and vowed to return. It was a very weedy place, hot and dry, and seemingly forgotten. Here are two of the head stones included in this small cemetery.

Day 676 Effie's Rattlers

As my husband and I were walking I came upon a snake coiled up on the road soaking up some mid-morning sun. Before I could get my camera up, he slithered lickety split into the brush. We then gave him a wide birth and continued on our way. As we were nearing the end of our journey we walked towards the center where we found a rattler in the middle of the driveway. I wondered why it was there then noticed it was injured. It was severely mutilated at the end near it's rattler. I thought maybe it could be saved so I stood guard while my husband ran up to the center to get the snake some help. I blocked traffic so no one would run over it again. I did take my camera out and snapped a few while I waited for my husband. It was moving very lethargically. By the time my husband arrived back I though it was dead. He said they didn't seem to interested. I guess snakes get run over quite a bit. Still I wished we could have helped the poor thing. I know nature is brutal, but it was a car not nature. By the time we drove away from the center the snake was coiled up in the center of the driveway. I guess it wasn't as dead as I thought. But by the time of this posting, a few hours later it is for sure dead. Here is a picture of this doomed snake.

Day 676 Effie Yeaw 2

Some of the wildlife moving along living their lives at the Effie Yeaw Wildlife Center. I love the wild turkeys. Plus I had to get a picture of a fawn with it's mother, and a frog.

Day 676 Effie Yeaw 1

My husband and I enjoyed a walk along the trails of the Effie Yeaw Wildlife Center this morning. I am only posting two pictures for this post as I want to show Five. But this new and improved program blogger has won't allow me to show five pictures without screwing up the spacing between them. As I am neurotic I'd rather make two or three different posts than have pictures with un even spacing.

Day 675 Disney takes a Step

Day 674 Disney an Orange Fronted Conure

Day 673 post 2 Smoky and his Rawhide Bone

I wasn't ready to throw away this backdrop so I laid it down and photographed Smoky.

Day 672 post 2 Disney a Day Late

I was looking at yesterdays pictures and have more that I like. Since this blog has become more of a secret diary of images for me, and since the rules have changed oh so often, and since I can do what I want, I am posting them.