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Outside My Window ~ 9.26.11
Outside my window…in a word ~ wet. We are so wet around here I noticed mushroom rings popping up in lawns everywhere. The fairies have been busy! 🙂 We had rain showers on and off all weekend at varying degrees. This morning began as foggy and graduated to mostly cloudy by the time I got off work….just enough sunlight to require sunglasses while I drove home. Currently at 9:45 we are at 74°F with a forecast low of 70°F and scattered thunderstorms tonight. Tomorrow there is a greater chance of rain and a high of 80°F which is where we will hover until Saturday when we will get no…
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A Weird Week
It has been a weird week…and it isn’t over yet. On Sunday, I found out a dear friend had passed away the night before… On Tuesday, we had an earthquake ~ 5.9 magnitude ~ the strongest quake to hit Virginia in the last 100 years. Yes, Virginia has earthquakes ~ however you normally don’t even notice them. I felt this one yesterday…it was the second time I have experienced an earthquake. I didn’t particularly enjoy it either time. We were in one of the “strong” blobs near near Newport News. And coming attractions ~ Hurricane Irene….closing in on where? Hurricanes are interesting I think…you watch them form and then march across the ocean…
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Outside My Window ~ 7.17.11
Outside my window…is the sun setting on another Sunday. My how the weekends fly. We had a couple of beautiful days but I didn’t get outside too much. Right now it is 80°F with about 50% humidity…zero chance of rain this evening. Our high was about 86°F today….not too bad for mid July. We will be heating up to a high of 97°F by Thursday with a chance of thunderstorms for Wednesday and Thursday. I noticed when I checked the Weather Channel there is a tropical storm brewing in the Atlantic…I probably should pay closer to the weather this time of the year. It appears as if it will not be a…
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Friday Flashback
When Busch Gardens was The Old Country…. The park was probably about three or four years old when I took these images. I was living in Colorado at the time but visiting family one summer. This was shot from the sky ride gondola… And the world renowned Clydesdale horses….there were certain times of the day you could catch them being moved from this stable to another location. These horses are huge…huge! The Loch Ness Monster…an amazing coaster that took you into a cave and had connecting loops. Now I suppose it is considered relatively tame. The boat docks for the cruise on Rhine river is in the foreground. This isn’t the best image….the coaster…
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High Water and Birds
I stopped by the boat dock on my way home Thursday evening. This is one of my favorite locations for shooting sunsets. As I drove towards the river, I was surprised at how much standing water there was on the sides of the road. I was even more surprised when I got to the river and saw how high the water was. The dock I usually walk out on is totally under water. I’m still not sure why the water level was so high…no storms or any reason that I have heard. I mean, the Mississippi is flooding but this river is a long way from there. I do know…
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Outside My Window ~ 3.27.11
Outside My Window…is cold…cloudy….windy….and if I’m not mistaken, there is a fine, powdery snow coming down right now. Snow ~ really? The flakes are so tiny it looks like misty rain when the wind is blowing, but when it stops you can see there is more to it than just misty rain. Weird. All of the bulbs and flowers beginning to bloom from our fine weather these past two weeks and now this. Winter’s last gasp perhaps…or March showing us that it can come in like a lion and leave like a lion rather than a lamb? Our current temperature is 36°F but feels like 29°F, probably because of the wind. Forecast…
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Lee Hall Mansion
Located not too far from where I live. “Lee Hall Mansion is the only large antebellum plantation house remaining on the lower Virginia Peninsula. Completed in 1859, Lee Hall Mansion was home to affluent planter Richard Decauter Lee (of the York County Lee family), his wife Martha, and their children. Only three years after the house’s completion, the Lees fled their home as the Peninsula became one of the first battlegrounds of the Civil War”. From the Lee Hall website.
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Outside My Window ~ 11.14.10
Outside My Window…is a beautiful, cool morning. At 10:45 we have blue skies, sunshine, 58ºF with calm winds. Our forecast high for the day is 63ºF and clear skies….doesn’t get too much better than this folks. Simply beautiful! This is the time of year I love temperature wise…the nights are cool and the days are mild. I like cool nights because I like snuggling down under the covers when I sleep…and I can do that now that the horrendous night sweats have left the building. Can I get a hallelujah on that please? 😉 I am thinking…that another cup of coffee sounds pretty good right now. I have been up…
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A Different View of Yorktown
If you look across the York River…..you can see Yorktown, Virginia.
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“And So Goes My Heart…”
One of my favorite locations to take photographs is the boat dock area near my mother’s house. That area happens to be across the Warwick River from Fort Eustis Army Base. From time to time you will hear them doing exercises….it could be a bit unsettling if you were not expecting the sound of weapons exercises. And on several occasions helicopters will fly down the river heading back to the base. This shot was taken with my Canon point and shoot last year about this time. I adjusted and processed the image in Lightroom and Topaz, finally resizing and watermarking in PSE7. This is one of the images I didn’t think I could use…