Welcome to the Photo a Day Project blog, where you can read about my adventures in my quest to take a photo every day for the whole year!
Antiques
Day 159
I think old milk cans are so cool, no reason why they just fascinate me for some reason, milking cows, being a milkman, the whole thing, how hard that work must be. Just think about old milk cans and how much milk they must have carried. Do they still use milk cans? If they do I bet they don't have as much character as these old ones do, not that you would use these for milk any more, I mean their shape, what they look like. New ones are probably all space age looking, slim and streamlined and shiny, boring. There is something to be said for old, it's full of experiences.
"Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silver Lining
Day 158
There were a lot of clouds in the sky today, but where ever I was it wasn't raining so that was a plus. There were huge big white puffy clouds but every once in a while there would be a huge thunder cloud go by. I stopped to get gas and saw this the one covering the sun, it looked so dramatic, the way the sun lit the edges of the cloud was so cool. I could hear the thunder and wondered if my streak of staying dry today was going to end, but it didn't! I decided to make this photo black and white, to me it looks majestic, almost scary, but so cool, it looks like there's a silver lining.
"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray." -Lord Byron
Learning to Fly
Day 157
When I got home from work tonight I spotted a little bird in the yard, a little tiny black capped chickadee, at first I thought it was a grownup but then I noticed it was super small and not flying too much, I even walked over to it and it didn't move, so of course I went to switch lenses on my camera to take some pictures of the cute little thing. That's when I noticed there were more of them, they seemed like they were everywhere, in the grass under the tree, everywhere you looked. I suddenly worried that I would step on one of them, so I as I carefully walked around I started to see the mom and the dad bringing the little ones food, it was fascinating. They would go over to our feeders get a sunflower seed, crack it open and then bring the seed to one of the little chicks, first one, then the next, constantly going back and forth feeding each one of them in turn. I finally determined there were five of them, hopping and fluttering around, they would fly for five or six feet then rest for a while, waiting for food. I watched them for the longest time, until it got too dark to take pictures, I watched them hop around exercising their little wings, waiting for their parents, you could see it in their little eyes, they new mom and dad were not far away. Before long all five of them had hopped or fluttered underneath the bush that must be where they live, when I came out later to take the dogs out, who for now are 
on a very short leash, I could hear them chirping away in the bush, settled in for the night, with full little bellies, exhausted and cozy with their parents to keep them safe and sound.
"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven." -Emily Dickenson
Red Doors
Day 156
We have a lot of churches in Geneva, these are the red doors of St. John's Chapel on the campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, it's a very pretty little chapel that was built in 1860. I was worried today that I wouldn't have any luck in finding a photo, it rained and drizzled all day and was so gray out, I'm not sure the sun came up at all. But I said to my self there had to be something, there are things everywhere, so as I was driving home I happened to see the red doors on the chapel, it was raining but I stopped anyway, I'm glad I did, I might have gotten a little wet, but the next time I won't complain there isn't anything to photograph, there's always something I just have to look.
"Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph." -Matt Hardy
Fresh Colors
Day 155
It was a rainy day today, in between the showers there was some very interesting cloudscapes, great big puffy white clouds against the blue sky, the rain also made everything look clean and new. I love the different colors, the greens of the fields and the trees, the white of the clouds and houses and the brilliant blue of the sky. It all goes together so perfectly, so fresh and calming, I've been looking for new colors to redo my room in, these might be a good choice.
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises." -Pedro Calderon de la Baraca
