#27 of 365 for January 27, 2013

#26 of 365 for January 26, 2013

# 25 of 365 for January 25, 2013

     Today was a cold, gray day.  Normally I don't take landscape pictures when the sky is that whitish, gray color, and texture-less......  you know the gray that wants to show up in my pictures as a blown sky.  I love nice pretty blue skies with big fluffy clouds or even dark gray, stormy looking skies..... but the dull whitish gray skies .............  well I am not to excited about shooting those, even with hdr it is hard to get much life into the sky.

    But today as I stood looking out the kitchen window washing dishes I realized I don't see those days as unattractive.  No maybe they aren't my favorite color days but I still find beauty in them.  I love to watch the layers of fog lift in the mountains and see the raindrops hanging on the branches.

     So I braved the cold and fine, misty, rain and went out with my camera to challenge myself and see if I could capture some of the beauty I could see, even on a dull, cold, gray day.  After all..... life has it's gray days too, yet I find I am always much happier if I look for, focus on, and embrace the beauty in the gray :)

#24 of 365 for January 24, 2013

The temperature was hovering just below freezing and the drops from the earlier ran hung like little pearls on the branches.

#23 of 365 for Wednesday January 23, 2013

I was traveling and thoroughly enjoyed the magnificent display of colors as the sun went down in the west.  I enjoyed all the shades of light it cast across the landscape, from hues of red and orange to purplish skies as the red mixed with the blue sky....  it's really amazing to watch a sunset.... really watch all the changes that take place in a few short minutes.  I really wanted to just stop my trip and shoot everything bathed in the beautiful light but since I didn't have time for that I watched for a place to get a quick snap to capture the beautiful colors.   Finally I found a long driveway I could pull over in with some trees I could silhouette in my picture.

Colors of Sunset

#22 of 365 for January 22, 2012

Frosties!

I was absolutely thrilled to discover that the below zero (it is 1f now) temperatures overnight put frosties on my storm door.  I got my camera all ready opened up the inside door and got one good shot.   I was so disappointed to realize it only took 1 minute and 25 seconds for all my beautiful frosties to melt and pour down the glass as little drops of water.  This of course happened  as soon as they were exposed to the heat from inside my living room.  But I got my "frosties" shot.... Yay!!

#21 of 365 for Monday January 21, 2012

Our little yorkie Abbi has a new haircut.