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Outside My Window ~ 6.9.2013
Outside my window…is a typical summer morning in Southeast Virginia. I know it isn’t officially summer yet ~ but it certainly feels like it outside this past weekend. Right now, at around 10:00 this morning, we are at 79°F with a 71% humidity so it feels like 81°F. Skies are partly cloudy but I like to think of it as more like filtered sun. There is plenty of sunshine out however there is a definite haze in the air which gives it that filtered look. Our forecast high for the day is 84°F….but will probably feel closer to 90° when you factor in the humidity. There has been plenty of…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Red leaf maple with a splash of dogwood bokeh
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Blooms
Don’t you love this time of year when the trees are in bloom? I wish they would last longer.
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Scenes From Williamsburg
I was searching for a photograph this evening and ran across some images I had taken a little over a year ago during one of my walking lunches. The above image is the gate that leads into the Bruton Parish Church cemetery. I love the trees around Williamsburg….huge, ancient and oddly shaped. Moss covered brick walls are something else that is quite commonplace in the colonial area. This image is the Governor’s Palace…yes, your read that right, Palace. From the Colonial Williamsburg website: “The word “Palace” was first used for the governor’s house about 1714. Whether the term was used as irony in reference to its expense, or simply to designate an official residence is debatable. …
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Storm
The Community Photo Challenge ~ Storms I took this Monday afternoon as I was leaving work….. ….moments before the bottom fell out. I was going to use an old photo of storm clouds but decided against it when this opportunity presented itself. I decided early on I wanted my challenge photos to be fresh if at all possible. While it appears I have processed this one as a black and white image, I have not. The bare trees and dark clouds did that all by themselves. 🙂 Visit the link to see the other entries.
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Waiting For The Wind
“If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
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One Gray Day
What started off as a sunny day has turned gray….. thunderstorms tonight with rain and wind tomorrow. I like gray days sometimes.
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Something wicked….
On this particular evening, as the sun was setting behind the clouds, the sky had an eerie kind of glow to it. I was at my mother’s house and snapping a few photos here and there when I walked by her now bare walnut tree and noticed this shot. What I didn’t notice until afterwards was the group of birds flying towards me. I noticed them when I lowered the camera….I don’t remember seeing them prior to taking the photo, but there they were. Large birds, normally gulls, are not unusual around my mother’s house. She lives near a large river, which feeds into the Chesapeake Bay. There are vultures that hang around that…
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Outside My Window ~ 11.1.2009
Outside My Window…is a cloudy and windy morning. Right now it is 59F with winds at about 17 mph. We are at our high temp for the day right now. It was cloudy and 80F yesterday. Welcome to Virginia weather. On the weather channel I noticed there is another low off the coast of North Carolina which means rain today and probably tonight….and the rain has arrived as well as the wind. The rest of the week will be in the 60’s during the day, low 40’s at night. The new image above was taken outside my patio doors actually…..I had not closed my blinds last night and caught this…