Another winter sunset…
Friday, January 12th And finally, the winds have slacked.
Category: photo muses
2023 Day 351
Shadows of my mind Just a few images of things that caught my eye in the last month... I was captured by the shadows on a brick wall outside of the office at Alvin High School. Moving closer and changing my perspective brought in more of the vivid blue sky.…
Sunset again
Sunset, December 6th, 2023
2023 Day 24 Sunset
After the storm...
2023 Day 23 Sunset
An October Sunset
It’s the 15th day of July
It's Photo Friday This week's Challenge: 'Road'. Talimena National Scenic Byway, June 2010 It was June of 2010 and I had scored some semi-decent tickets to an Eagles concert with the Dixie Chicks opening for them as an early anniversary gift for Sherry... The downside of this was the concert…
It’s the eighth day of July
It's Friday It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.-Claude Monet I haven't done a Photo Friday Challenge in years. This weeks Challenge is "Seashore". So I've dug into my archives for…
The 27th of February, 2022
Sunday evening Clouds finally moved out today. Though it was later than we expected... I was playing around with the panoramic mode on my phone camera in the above shots... Just in a different orientation. I started at the ground and tilted the camera / phone until I reached the…
Pecan Tree and Winter Sky
https://youtu.be/qk_2kbnetXI Pecan Tree and Winter Sky I pulled into the driveway this January afternoon and the blue of the sky... with bare branches silhouetted demanded a moment... reflection... Pease.
Twelve September, 2021
Sunday Sunset https://youtu.be/E5iOoXnsB-o Tropical Storm Nicholas has layered in clouds that came to life after the sun set...
Sunset, a break in the rain
March 25, Thursday
Sunset No coffee muse this morning. So I thought I'd flip it around and just show some photos taken at sunset. I hope you had a wonderful day. Y'all stay safe, stay healthy, and pray for our nation and our world.
Sunday Sunset
Blue Skies
And once again... Just because I can and I'm obsessed with her voice...... https://youtu.be/axfNDZXkUOY
New Years Sunset
The first sunset of 2021... Not too shabby.
Evening Light
After a day of on again off again rain storms, the light at day's end does wonderful thing to the eastern sky.
Wednesday Afternoon
I walked out to get the mail after mowing earlier. Walking back to the house I thought I'd give you the reverse look from the morning coffee muses... Catch you in the morning...
Sunday, March 17th
I'm still around... just haven't had much to say lately. I'll make an effort to get back in the habit once again. Today has been quiet. The world has pulled on it's greenery to celebrate the day. It's late afternoon, a cool spring feel to the world. The sun is…
Afternoon on the Nash Prairie
We drove down to Angleton for a late lunch. On the way back home we swung by the Nash for a look after seeing all of Susan's photo's on Facebook… I'm glad we did…
Vacation Pictures – Day 5
So here is a selection of pictures from the fifth day on the mountains... Check out the post of that day Thursday morning on the mountain - Thursday, June 29. Today's images are taken as we meandered our way down off the mountain and along the River Road into Valle Crucis…
Vacation Pictures – Day 2
So here is a selection of pictures from the second day on the mountains... Check out the post of that day First Mountain Morning Coffee Muses - Monday, June 26
Birthday Road Trip 2017
I've forgotten how long I've been doing this as an annual tradition. It goes back well over a decade. This years trip felt more like my hunt for spring flowers than my birthday.
The Blooms of January
The magnolia doesn't seem to know winter is just starting.
A Sunset With A Little Color
Sitting in my easy chair, I looked up and noticed a bit of color outside..
Sunrises
I seldom find myself rising with the sun... At least not since the fall of 2008. And so, I don't see all that many sunrises. Be that as it may, this shot from just around the corner from my house, is still one of my favorites... Alvin Sunrise
On Vacation In The Rockies
It's a different kind of Mountain Dream...
Loose Change from Jim Dollar: Home Is Where The Heart Is Welcome No Matter How Different It Might Be
Oneness is not agreement. Like minds like to sleep at different room temperatures and take different approaches to entering meditation. What are the things we all need to agree to? What are the things we can be free to do differently? It’s important to agree about what we can disagree…
Nash Prairie Preserve
I went to a seed collecting day at the Nash Prairie Preserve in Brazoria County last Friday. While I will be writing a post about the trip shortly, I have spent today updating my Nash Prairie Gallery at Mountain Dreams Photography. Here is a slideshow of the images I have…
Hummingbird Entertainment
The hummingbirds continue to entertain us each day. We have never had the numbers we are seeing this year. Here are a few shots I took last week at one of the back feeder's
The View From My Desk
This is what I see every time I look up from the keyboard for the past couple of weeks. It's almost enough to have me singing along with the "Boss"... Listen to more Bruce Springsteen at Wolfgang's Vault.
Fall In My Backyard
Last week my backyard looked like this as the sun came up... This week, under overcast skies, it looks like this... We are still seeing more green out back than most places around here. In fact, we are seeing more green than we have seen since last year. Related…
December Apples
I figured when I saw blooms back at the end of September there was a chance I would see apples yet this year. All it took was for the heat to break and the rains to start falling and here you see what I discovered today...Baby apples. Not a lot.…
Tall-Grass Triumph – The Nash Prairie
Thats why the Nash Prairie matters so much. As Chronicle reporter Matthew Tresaugue reported Tuesday "Life abounds at states last surviving bit of coastal prairie," Page B1, July 26, the 400-plus acres of never-plowed land in Brazoria County remained pristine by historical accident: The Czech and German immigrants who first…
Spring Road Trip
I decided to take a lunch run across the river a week or so ago. After eating my sack lunch with another eastern bluebird I wandered over to the nature trail...This is one of the shots I captured...
Happy Turkey Day
Blue Ridge Mountain Wild Turkey Chick Summer 2004 Here's wishing all of you a great day of Thanks Giving.
The End Of A Mountain Vacation
I didn't post anything after Friday morning because most of the time since was spent driving from place to place and then home...All with the beginnings of a nasty touch of a bug. A Floyd Friday Friday morning I relearned a lesson I learn every trip to the mountains. It always takes…
Rushed This Morning
Yesterday we moseyed around till noon and then went to Linville for lunch before heading up Grandfather Mountain for the afternoon. This morning we are heading out early for a day trip into Virginia and meetings with some of my "Blog Buddies". So here is all I have to offer…
From Valle Crucis To Jefferson And Back
Road Trip Photos
Driving These Mountain Roads
We started our day taking the long way into Boone. We drove over Rich Mountain Road. This shot is from the highest point on the road as it passes between Rich Mountain Bald and Snake Mountain. From here it was all downhill. After spending some time on King Street in…
Playing Photographer In The Mountains
When I stopped to take this shot on the way back up to the cabin yesterday afternoon Sherry wanted to know why I took so many shots of the same scene...I think the result gives the answer. Earlier in the day we were traveling from Blowing Rock to Linville to…
Snow On The Mountain
All week long as we made our arrangements to drive to Valle Crucis the forecast coming from Ray was for a chance of snow showers at higher elevations on Saturday night. I had no hopes that the snow would be around when we arrived even if it came down at all...Guess what...Snow it did.…
Autumn? Not So Much…
After a long hot summer, you would expect the last week of October to be bringing on the cool...Not so much this year. Record heat is possible the next few days, but a cool down is expected later this week when a weak Pacific front pushes through the Houston region.…
Sunday Muse
For a couple of weeks now, this scene has caught my eye as I traveled between Alvin and Angleton. The grass heads were a bright pink in the sun. Each time I would want to stop and try to capture an image. Each time I didn't for one reason or…
The Subtleness Of A Southeast Texas Autumn
This shot was taken yesterday in the Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge. It shows the subtlety of fall colors on the SE Texas coast. We are finally seeing the goldenrod blooming along with the other yellow fall blooms. The trees themselves, are mostly yellow and green. Sitting at my kitchen table today every…
Fall Covers NE United States This Week
As I sit checking email with the house open to the nice morning cool I stumbled across this image this morning...via Fall Colors in the Allegheny Mountains : Image of the Day. I was hopeful that the color would be as slow to move southward down the mountains as it proved in 2007.…
Coffee Muses For Fall
Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million – CNN.com
Los Angeles, California CNN -- Rick Norsigians hobby of picking through piles of unwanted items at garage sales in search of antiques has paid off for the Fresno, California, painter. Two small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $45 -- negotiated down from $70 -- are now estimated to…
They Took My Kodachrome Away
Kodachrome - Paul Simon - Momma Don't Take My Kodachrome Away - Click here for more amazing videos PARSONS — Freelance photojournalist Steve McCurry, whose work has graced the pages of National Geographic, laid 36 slides representing the last frames of Kodachrome film on the light board sitting on a…
St. Louis Birdwatching
The entire (well mostly anyway) reason for our jaunt up the road to the middle of the country wasn't to see the famous Arch. It wasn't to celebrate history. It wasn't even to find a cooler climate, though, that seemed to happen on the one day that mattered. The reason for the trip was to visit the special facility the citizens of St. Louis had built for the simple pleasure of watching the summertime antics of a flock of red birds. Cardinals of the subspecies Americanis baseballus St. Louis.
St. Louis Wandering
A cool front was moving through the area as I watched that morning. The day promised to be pleasantly warm and not as uncomfortably hot as it had been all week.
Traveling Mid America
We headed north out of Houston on Tuesday before the sun came up and hit Oklahoma soon after noon. I had routed our trip to take advantage of the Arkansas Mountains...We had reservations at Queen Wilhelmena State Park for the first night of our travels.
Wordless Wednesday
Hunting Spring Wildflowers In Texas
Some of the shots I took yesterday as I played on a roadtrip into Texas Spring... I try each year to make a day trip into the closest wildflower country to my home. The trip takes about two hours just to start seeing good fields of color. Usually, I begin…
One Day In SE Texas In Spring
[ti_billboard name="Spring Day"] We took a drive around the county yesterday...Me and my Nikon. The slideshow above has some of the results...I hope you enjoy.
Spring Break…In Spring Even
For some reason this year my wife has spring break off. It makes no sense, she could never get spring break off when we, you know, actually had kids off on spring break. But this year she has spring break off. Guess what? Grandson #2 is all ours each and…
Birthday Eve Photo Road Trip
The weather could have been better...But I drug myself out of bed and hit the road before sunup...heading south, going to the beach...hoping for a sunrise photo to remember the day.
Morning Haze In My Backyard
morning haze; as in a painting of a dream men go their ways Buson ~ (via The Haiga Pages) The sun rising through the morning mist last week drew me out my backdoor armed with my third eye...After letting the image stew for a week it felt done...
A Winters Journey To The Edge Of The World…
"It is landscape in places, seascape in others. Fjords slice deep into the towering mountain islands while the low-lying islands remain barely afloat, waterlogged and pock-marked with thousands of lochs."
Wordless Wednesday
Summer Memories…
My backyard this morning... Fall is here... Tho' memories of summer days persist... Even as winter comes near. Blue kiddie pool... Cracked and faded from summer fun... Holds not but fallen leaves... A tree's memories of summer sun. The photo album is full... Electronic memories preserved... Photo screensaver on laptops...…
Snow? Houston? Could Be…But, Maybe Not
The outlook for snow on Friday is still in the forecast...With the following caveat. To get snow in our typically tropical clime the timing must be just right, with cold air arriving at the same time as atmospheric moisture. It seems plausible this will happen Friday afternoon. The National Weather…
Happy Thanksgiving
We are spending the day with family...So from my walk yesterday... I hope everyone has a great day...
A Worms Eye View Of Autumn
On my walk today to check the progress of autumn I ended up on my belly looking at the violet seed heads of the grass growing in our field. It made for an interesting photo. I was very happy to have the cloudless blue sky and a cool north breeze…
A Walk In Autumn…
Walking my trail through the woods yesterday I was struck that the predominate color is still green... Once I made it to Mustang Bayou, the color pallet didn't seem to change... The temperatures this week have been great. My wife actually demanded the heat be turned on after our first…
Grandfatherly Duties
I've been falling down on my duties as a grandfather this past month. So to play catch up here are two slideshows...First of #2 grandson's first birthday... Second, of #1 grandson's third birthday...
Wednesday Morning Walk
It was a cool misty morning as I poured a cup of coffee...Looking out the back screen the light looked intriguing. I grabbed the camera and slipped on the flipflops and wandered out into the cool, wet backyard. I wandered a while trying to capture the light that drew me…
A New Day Dawning…
Three years ago this month we were on Padre Island celebrating our 28th. Two years ago, it was the Blue Ridge Mountains and our 29th. Last year it was the Texas Hill Country and our 30th...This year we haven't made plans...Yet. Blogging has been slow here lately. I am not…
Where I’d Rather Be Right Now…
Two years ago we were planning our first fall trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia...Life has conspired since then to keep me from the mountains I love. I look forward to next year and a visit to the mountains to beat all of our past…
Photo Friday: ‘Circular’
Mill Wheel, Roan Mountain State Park, Tennessee
Winedale Historical Center
During my roadtrip yesterday I made a point of stopping by the Winedale Historical District. I have been here before but the stop is always good for a break, and the grounds make for a great way to stretch your legs before getting back on the road. The Lewis-Wagner House…
Roadtrip Time In Texas
I decided that I needed a roadtrip to hunt for the fields of Bluebonnets that bloom this time of year a few counties to the north and west. Yesterday I made the decision that today would be the day, come what may. It almost looked as if I'd be trying…
Monday Morning Backs Into Winter
I woke up this morning to a blustery north wind driving temperatures into the 40's. Tonight the weather prognosticators are predicting lows in the 30's. It would appear winter (at least our kind of winter) isn't through with SE Texas. As I wait for springs return and the yard work honey-dews that will accompany it, here are some more of my spring photo's fropm last week...
Sunday Morning In SE Texas
The day started out overcast but by 10am the clouds were mostly moved out. Temperatures are already mid 70's outside. It should be what would pass for a beautiful summer day in most parts of the country...Here it's just spring! More spring shots from my afternoon walk of the other…
Spring in My Yard…
I went for a walk yesterday afternoon with my camera. I only covered by back yard and the right of ways that run to Mustang Bayou. Here are a couple of the images I caught... More To follow...Have a great weekend.
Spring Has Sprung…Fully
We had a "cool" front blow through here this morning...Cool is now at 71° and rising. The front brought an hour or so of rain and then clear blue sky. The real sign of spring though is the cardinals, you know...Red birds chasing other red birds out of their perceived…
Wordless Wednesday
Road Trip Thoughts
Through this all, I couldn't bring myself to document the damage with my camera...It was enough just to see what was what...So on I drove. All the way around the island...through the Strand...Along Broadway...And finally over the new Causeway...And here was where the totality of the destruction hit me...
