Pretty Girl

My friend has the most beautiful German Shepards. Here is one of the sweeties.

Bless Your Heart

Don't remember exactly what was wrong with my friend's dog. I think it was some sort of sting but sadly, she had to wear the cone for a few weeks. It was like putting blinders on a carraige horse, she couldn't see to the sides and kept getting stuck. She is just fine now, so we can chuckle at the picture.

Twin Suns

Usually you try to avoid lens flare because it takes away from the picture but sometimes it gives the whole picture a pretty cool effect. I was shooting the sun through the bushes with a very small aperture around F 22 so I could get the starburst effect. The way the breeze made the bush move, I got the effect of two stars with a huge halo lens flare.

Birthday Burger

The nice thing about loyalty cards and clubs is that you get cool free things for your birthday. I got my free birthday burger from Ruby Tuesday yesterday. Yummy. Washed it down with a tall glass of water with lemon.  Red Robin is next and then Captain D's. I love my free birthday meals!

It's Magical

Childhood is a magical time. A little boy can be a prince and a little girl can be a princess. Here is another one of my children's portraits.

Make Mine Music

Here is another picture from my older people shots. This was shot at his birthday party, while everything was being set up. He tried his hand at the cello.

Boy at the Lake

Going through some of my older photos and came across this one of this little boy at a lake my son and I had visited. More photos of people to come in the next few days.

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.