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!
Dawn at the Lake
Day 8
I have noticed that if the sun is out in the morning I am in a much better mood during the day. And a way better mood when I get a awesome photo of the sunrise, or in this case the pre-sunrise dawn. Even though it was cold and I was as usual running a bit late but I just had to stop and take a quick photo. It is very quiet at this time of the day, just before everything wakes up, which is usually the case for me, I hate to get up in the morning. Hence the always running late to work.
"I'd like the mornings better if they started later." -Author Unknown
Another Kind of Tracks
Day 7
A different kind of tracks, and pattern, I like to try to find patterns in everyday places and a fresh dusting of snow on an unused parking lot is always a good place to start.
"I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help." -Ruth Bernhard
The Dogs
Day 6
My two dogs pretend not to like each other, but they really do, I think. Simon is the big brother (the footprint on the left is his) and Divot is the little sister (the right one is hers). They don't exactly cuddle up with each other but they do sit together on a chair, especially is someone is on that chair. They will both tag team you when it is dinner time, each taking turns staring you down until you finally get up and get their dinner. But they are completely different personality wise, Simon is always in motion, jumping and running around, when we go for a walk he leads the way. Divot on the other hand wants nothing more than to sit on your lap, her sole ambition in life is to take a nap so she has the energy to go to bed. On walks she lags behind and would rather be carried, she thinks she belongs to a movie star or something. As most people with pets say, I don't know what I would do with out them, they infuriate me, they drive me nuts, but they make me laugh. I'm glad I saw their little footprints next to each other in the snow, it might be the best picture I have of the two of them together.
"Dogs are miracles with paws." -Attributed to Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
Determination
Day 5
This is one determined squirrel, he tried and tried to get up one of the poles with a feeder on it but couldn't reach them because of the ingenious squirrel guards I put up. (a gallon milk carton with the bottom cut out) It finally figured out there was a pole without a guard so it shimmied up the pole and from the top supermanned it on over to the top of another pole and promptly fell off. But after a couple more tries it finally hung on and managed to reach on over and have some munchies but finally gave up and ran away. It must have thought that it was way too much work for the little bit of food it was managing to get. I guess I am going to have to figure out how to make a new guard for the other pole, the war against the squirrels has begun.
"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." -Thomas Foxwell Buxton
January Thaw
Day 4
So after you get tons of snow what happens, it melts and makes cool icicles on everything and everywhere. I love how they look especially on a sunny day, all shiny and smooth. When we were young we used to have the best time at my grandmothers house breaking them off and licking them like they were super cold popsicles, we don't do that any more which is a shame, it was fun. I do know for a fact that my brother still knocks them off his roof for sport, this weekend I am going out to his house and knock a few off myself!
"Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons." -Author Unknown
