Day 657 Male House Sparrow

Ever since I watched the movie "The Big Year" I've wanted to get a nice photograph of a bird. Then a few weeks ago I went to a nursery and low and behold there was a stunning hummingbird sitting on a tree right in front of me, but alas I did not have my camera. Today I went back to the nursery looking for that hummingbird, but there were no birds to be found. Then as I was getting into my Jeep, I noticed this male House Sparrow playing in a Japanese Maple. It's probably the most common of birds, but I don't care at least I got a picture of it.

Day 656 Smoky

A picture of Smoky. When all else fails, photograph the dogs.

Day 655 Old Barn and Rusty Shed

I have photographed this place so many times.... but I never like the picture. I guess the secret is photographing it through my windshield instead of out through my passenger side window.

Day 654 Drive to Work

What a beautiful morning. I had so many images to choose from as the sky was awesome! But I did manage to choose only one because I love the old barn, the light on, and the dirt driveway.

Day 653 Foggy Morning

Day 652 Sunrise with a Windmill

It was an ugly morning during my drive to work. So I turned my camera in the opposite direction to get a sunrise picture. I usually am not a sunrise/sunset fan but I do love the wind mill.

Day 651 Drive to Work

WOW will wonders ever cease! I have taken a picture two days in a row. I am hoping to go for a whole week. And If I can do that maybe I can go two weeks? Maybe I can finally reach my goal of taking a picture a day for a whole year. I am at Day 651 and have not accomplished this. I need a better camera, this one is failing, I need a new computer, I need a lap top so I can down load and post when I am away from home. I need a place to process film so I can shoot black and white and post those pictures, I need a nice scanner so I can scan black and white pictures, what I really need to accomplish my goal is to win the lottery so I can have the time it takes to go get decent pictures. I need to buy a lottery ticket or two. Until then here are two pictures. I couldn't decide between them.

The top picture is the San Joaquin River. A difficult shot as I am driving across a bridge at this point and the barrier is so high that when I have taken this shot in the past the barrier ruins the shot. Today must be my lucky day. Better go get that lottery ticket!

Day 650 A wet Disney

It has been so long since I have taken a picture that I almost forgot how. I have had a physical malady that has pretty much kept me on the couch for the past six months. I have not healed very well and am still going to be basically house bound, but because I was restless I set up my lights and had a little fun trying to photograph Disney. The background has been up and I have been wanting to take a picture of him in front of it for quite awhile now. In looking through the camera back I thought I wouldn't like all the rose shapes, but in seeing the images on the computer screen I love them. My goal is to photograph Disney in front of a lot of different backgrounds, ones that might not be ideal. I don't know maybe I am just going for the worst!

Day 649 Trees Seen from the Street

I've always wanted to photograph this area as you can see it while driving by. I got out of my car today took a shot.

Day 648 post 3 Drive to Work

I have long wanted to photograph the old white wood fence in the bottom picture, but have always fallen short. I'm happy with this morning image. The top picture is a random frame taken while driving to work. I'm sure I'll remember which place it is when I drive by again.

Day 648 post 2 Working Shed

I have always wanted a picture of this shed. I love the way it's aluminum glows in the morning sun.

Day 648 Poor Dog, actually two of them

I noticed this dog tied up in a desolate area while on my way to work yesterday. I wished I had my camera. She was still there when I left work and I almost stopped to see if she was abandoned but kept going because I thought she might belong to someone working near by. I did bring my camera to work today as I planed on taking her picture if she was still there. She was. So was a larger male pit bull, a pretty blue boy, with a more pleasing personality. It's nice to see they were not abandoned but I am sure they have a rough life.

Day 647 Bell Pepper

Sometime during the late summer my husband and I visited a local nursery. We bought a couple of tomato plants, a couple of green pepper plants and quite a few varieties of chili pepper plants. After planting we were very proud of our fledgling garden. The next day our puppy Smoky dug it all up. I managed to salvage a couple of pepper plants and one tomato plant. We figured we would not get any vegetables from our efforts, but this morning I noticed five peppers growing on one of the plants, and plucked this one which seemed ready. I don't know what kind of pepper it is, but we grew it ourselves. No pesticides. Ready to eat or cook or dice and slice or photograph. After cutting it open... It is a Bell Pepper!

Day 646 Dairy

I actually took this picture Thursday morning. If I was keeping up on this blog it would have been posted then, but considering I am not actively taking a picture a day, it gets posted today, Sunday, three days late.