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!
In a Field
Day 279
I have been watching this tree every day this fall, wondering if it was going to turn a pretty color, I thought it might look nice out in the field all by itself. I was hoping for a nice sunny day with some nice light but that wasn't going to happen, at least this week it wasn't. On the way home tonight I decided to stop and that a photo, I wasn't sure if the leaves would still be on it after the weekend, and I noticed that the misty, foggy, gray day actually made the scene look like a painting. The field which this summer had been planted with corn now has fresh green winter wheat popping up and the muted colors of the trees in the distance give the scene a dreamy quality, a quiet peaceful look to that tree out in that field.
"Nothing is worth more than this day." -Goethe
Winding Road
Day 278
Doesn't this photo make you want Thanksgiving dinner for some reason? You know turkey and stuffing and gravy, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie. I know it's not even Halloween yet but the cooler weather and the changing leaves makes me want serious comfort food, I better stop, I'm making myself hungry.
"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." -John Burroughs
Welcome Home
Day 277
This is what greets me most nights when I come home, a little dog, sometimes two, waiting at the door to greet me. It always amazes me how happy they are when I get home, they run around and bark, like I can't see them or forgot they were there. But it's the nicest thing to come home and have a little furry warm thing to pet and hug...if you can catch them...after a long day at work. I wish I could bring them to work, but then I suspect I'd never get anything done, or would sound like a goof talking to them like they're people, I'll just do that at home where they're the only ones that can hear me. I'm pretty sure they already think I'm a goof for some of the stuff I say, but I'm also sure they'll both be there when I get home tomorrow happy as hell to see me yet again.
"One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why." -Author Unknown
The Creepy Season
Day 276
So it's October and fall and the leaves are falling and the crows are out. Halloween will be here soon and all it's scariness, I'm not a big fan of Halloween, I don't like scary movies, or being scared at all for that matter, I mean I don't even like the commercials for scary movies. So for some reason everything looks a bit creepy to me, a bird in a tree, yes it's a crow and they are creepy anyway, leaves blowing around on the streets, even night time seems darker than usual. I never should have gone to see the movie Halloween on Halloween when I was in grade school, but all my friends were going so I went, but I think the really big mistake was to walk past Washington Street cemetery on the way to Pudgies for pizza, now that creeped me out, I mean Pudgies pizza on Halloween...creepy.
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror." -Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
The Secret Garden
Day 275
Don't you just wonder where this gate leads to? I do, I pass this old stone fence almost every day on my way to and from work and I will occupy my mind by coming up with interesting little possibilities. Sometimes I like to imagine a cute little cottage with a fire burning just waiting for someone to come and cozy up to it. Or I think that it looks creepy and there has to be all kinds of creepy crawlies back there in the overgrown trees and bushes. But usually I like to just think it is a secret garden with pretty flowers covering every inch, a nice bench to sit on next to a little stream and a bunch of tiny little bunnies hopping around, and the air filled with birds singing, and best of all no cell phone reception.
"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden." -Frances Hodgson Burnett
