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!
Big Orange Ball
Day 229
It was a nice sunset tonight, that kind of sunset you see in the middle of summer, a big orange ball hanging in the hazy evening sky. The only problem is that the sun is setting earlier and earlier, the days getting shorter, fall is coming which is ok it's the season after that I don't much care for.
"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give t sweetness." -John Steinbeck
Sofie's Birthday
Day 228
Don't you just love kids birthdays? They love them, they don't care it's their birthday and proudly tell anyone who asks them how old they are. I don't know when that stops, when you get too old to like your birthday. I am one of those people who like their birthday and will tell you how old I am, if you ask, nicely, and say I look way younger and there is no way I could possibly be that old.
"A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip." -Author Unknown
After the Storm
Day 227
I love how the sky looks after a storm rolls through. The clouds break up and the sun starts to peak through lighting everything up, especially when just a little while earlier it was black as night and raining so hard you couldn't see. But as always the sun came out just in time for a nice sunset.
"Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella." -Terri Guillemets
Such a Poser
Day 226
Usually when I see hawks sitting on top of phone poles I try to take a photo, but they always fly away if I try to get close enough to get a good photo. But not tonight, this guy just sat there posing for me looking like he is the coolest thing flying.
"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera snd to trap the fleeting prey in your little box." -Henri Cartier Bresson
Wildflowers
Day 225
Did you ever notice the weeds alongside the road? I actually think the flowers are pretty despite the fact they are actually weeds. I do know that if they were in the front yard they wouldn't survive, they would get mowed down, or sprayed with weed killer or yanked out of the ground. So I'm glad they are by the side of the road, they brighten up my drive to work.
"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one." -Edna St. Vincent Millay
