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!
Clown Faces
Day 129
After such a gray and rainy day I thought I would try to find a little cheery humor for today's picture. So on my way home I stopped at a garden store, they are starting to put out all of their annuals and the first ones that they always seem to put out are the pansies, which are my favorite, they crack me up with their little scrunched up faces looking at you. They make me smile, which is so nice on a gray and rainy day.
"Each flower is a soul opening out to nature." -Gerard De Nerval
Rainy Monday
Day 128
After a super nice weekend Monday decided to be a Monday, it was cloudy and rainy just what you'd expect. The only ones who don't seem to mind are the birds, they still bop around from feeder to feeder eating their fill in seeds.
There's a big old barn at a golf course nearby, it doesn't get much use any longer it's very old and rickety, but the bird's have put it to good use, I think there are a zillion birds going in and out of the many openings, I expect there are lots of nests inside, it's a good place to make a nest, relatively dry and safe to raise a little bird family, I'm glad that someone has put that big old barn to good use.
"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sunday Outing
Day 127
Today was a beautiful spring day and at Montezuma the baby geese were out and about with their parents. They're so cute and fluffy right now, with their stubby little wings they can't do too much but walk and swim and eat. There were quite a few families out today, some with 3 babies, some with more 5 and 6, and all of them were watched over very carefully by their parents. It didn't matter if they were on land eating the new shoots of grass or in the water swimming around, their mother was never far away leading them around not letting the little guys get too far ahead of the whole group. The father was the interesting one, always bringing up the rear always looking around to make sure there was no danger nearby. It was amazing to watch these little families out for their Sunday strolls enjoying a beautiful May day.
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." -George Santayana
Super Moon
Day 126
I almost missed the super moonrise tonight! I was driving around looking for a good spot to get a picture but was getting discouraged because the clouds had come in. I was sure I wouldn't see the moon come up, but I got to a spot I thought would be good and waited for the sun to set, once it did and I couldn't see the moon I was bummed and got back in the car and started home, but holy cow there is was! I only had a couple minutes to get a few shots because it did rise up into the clouds, lucky I started to head home when I did or I would have missed it all together!
"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie..." -Dean Martin
Lilacs
Day 125
I wish the blog had smellivision, because these lilacs smell wonderful. Lilac is one of my favorite smells in the whole world, maybe second to the smell of baking chocolate chip cookies, ok it's my favorite out door smell, well except for hot dogs on the grill...hmm I am noticing a pattern, ok lilacs are my most favorite non food smell in the whole world. It's a smell that reminds me of sitting by the lake on a warm night, smelling that awesome smell, or hearing the bees buzz like crazy going from one blossom to another. I wish that they stayed in bloom all summer, but the fact that they bloom right after winter is good enough for me.
"Just now the lilac is in bloom
All before my little room."
-Rupert Brooke
