NC Aviation Museum

Found an old picture that I took while in photography school. We took a field trip to the North Carolina Aviation Museum in Asheboro, NC. I tried to get an interesting angle of the plane for this shot.

Sweet Little Dog

Just looking at some of my old blog posts and found this one of my friend's dog. Donna, hope you enjoy this one. 

All Ears

Found this cute little picture of my dog and my friend's German Shepard who had made themselves comfortable on the pillow. Those ears were just so funny. It seemed like they both had the radar on.

Unconditional Love

It is amazing how are pets give us unconditional love. They are so in the moment, tail wagging, happy to see you, I love you. Look at the eyes of this adorable dog, Kato and see his admiration for his person.

Cat On A Hot Card Hood

You ever notice how cats love to sit on your car.

I guess it is the view they like along with the warmth.

It is so funny to see the little paw prints they leave behind.

A Flock of Butterflies

I was out photographing dragonflies when I notices several of the tiny little lilac butterflies huddled together in a damp area. I do believe they were taking a drink. I've never seen 5 butterflies together, much less sitting still.

A Stick in the Mud

If you stick it, they will come, LOL. Really, I stuck a stick in the mud at the edge of the lake where it is mucky and before I could sit back down the dragonflies were landing on it. It sure makes it easier to take pictures if I pre-focus on the stick and wait for them. They are still pretty quick but a couple came out pretty good. Here is one of them.

Check me out on Flickr

I loved being on smugmug with my own domain name but unfortunately that isn't in the budget right now. However, I can at least host some of my pictures free on Flickr. Here is a link to my site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daylilydreamsphoto/ I hope you will go check it out and bookmark the site.

The Taste of Summer

We've had unusually hot weather this spring and the blackberries are getting ripe a little early. There is nothing like finding a wild blackberry bush in your back yard and enjoying that sweet little pop when you eat it. The bush reminds me of a time several years ago. We lived in apartments and there were several blackberry plants behind our building. My son and my daughter decided to make me a cake and make a blackberry drizzle for it as a surprise for my birthday. Let's just say it had an interesting flavor. No worries, I ate it because of the love it was made from. So here's to the tastes of summer.

Summer Flowers

We've had a bit of rain lately and it is making the garden bloom. I miss having a garden but I can have one vicariously through my neighbor's lovely garden. Her gladiolus just started blooming and they are so pretty.

After the Rain

It has been pouring outside and it reminded me of a storm last year. After the storm passed, there was such a beautiful sunset. Here it is.

He Did It

My son graduated from high school today. After completing all of the requirements of the Guilford Technical Community College's Adult High School Program, he did it!

Wild Blue Yonder

Another picture from the old pictures.

This one is an airplane that had just taken off and is flying,

as the Air Force says, into the wild blue yonder.

On a Tree Stump

I was out walking the dog when I noticed a white butterfly flying and landing around on a tree stump. There were not any flowers around the stump and I wasn't sure why this butterfly was hanging out. I took the dog in and grabbed my camera after changing to a telephoto lens, returned to the stump. I was in luck as the the butterfly was still there. I kept landing and "tasting" the wood stump and was there long enough for me to get a couple of good pictures. I went to take my camera inside and came right back outside and the butterfly was no where to be found. I will take it as a small gift from God that was wrapped with lovely white wings.

On the River

I took a trip down to Wilmington when my daughter was in college at UNCW. We went down to the river and was in time for a lovely sunset. I noticed this boat next to the dock and loved how the setting sun lit the side and how that light reflected.

Reflecting

Still going over old favorite shots and came across this one.

It was a lovely afternoon and the lake was unusually still,

so it reflected the clouds almost perfectly.

Almost Full

I stayed up last night to get a picture of the almost full moon. I read that last night was 97% full and tonight is the actual full moon. After trying to take it on automatic (being lazy), I switched to full manual and got this. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

That's a Scary Shadow

Another picture from my older photos collection. This is a baby goat that a friend was taking care of because the momma goat couldn't nurse it. You can't tell by this picture but this goat is the size of my 6 pound Rat Terrier. It was just a tiny little thing. It's shadow was bigger than it was. Enjoy this picture.

Mighty Mississippi

I was going through some old pictures I had on the Kodak website. Kodak is migrating all of their photos to another online photo center and I was able to download some of the pictures. I love this picture, even though it is just a scratchy old scan of a photo I took in 1986. I was visiting my Mom, who at the time lived in Memphis Tennessee. This shot is looking at the bridge over the Mississippi River looking toward Arkansas. Wish I could find the original photo so I could rescan it. Enjoy.

Robin

So we are in for some nasty weather this afternoon. Possibly severe weather is forecast, so I thought I would post a picture that reminds me of Spring and lovely weather- a robin. This one sat here for a while before flying away. But as you can see, it was giving me the wary eye. Wish I had a longer telephoto, LOL.