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!
Sunset Tree
Day 244
Another awesome day, a bit hot for the last day of August, but awesome. I wanted to take a photo of the full moon, the second one this month, a blue moon, but the clouds came in and I wasn't able to, but while I was waiting there was another sunset, as there is every night. So I figured I had better take a picture of something for the day and as you know I love the sunsets!
"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give t sweetness." -John Steinbeck
Bird Watching
Day 243
It was a nice evening to go bird watching, but of course I forgot my guide book so I wasn't exactly sure what I was looking at, but while there wasn't tons of birds there were some around if you were patient and waited. The cute little shore birds zipping back and forth eating bugs, the few ducks hanging around preening, even a blue heron looking for some dinner. I found that I didn't mind not knowing what I was looking at, I found that I could watch them and not worry about what they were, I didn't have to keep checking the book, I was able to just watch, which is what I should do all the time.
"I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could." -John James Audubon
Orange Leaves
Day 242
I was driving around this evening looking for a picture, and I was thinking that there is just nothing new to take a photo of, and it's my own fault. I had waited and waited today to go look for a photo and it was getting late. So I went looking, and as I drove around I noticed something in this big tree by the side of the road, it was a bunch of butterflies, I turned around thinking this could be a photo and as I got closer I saw there were a lot of them, I mean a lot. So of course I stopped and tried to get some photos, but let me tell you, butterflies are fast little buggers and they were in among the leaves and I couldn't see them, it wasn't as easy as I thought and I didn't really get a great pic but it was fun watching them all, I had never seen that many in one area before, there were two reasons I left when I did, the sun was going down and there were these two big German Shepards in the yard watching my every move.
"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." -Author Unknown
Corning
Day 241
The second part of our overnight adventure was to Corning and to the Museum of Glass, we watched them make glass, bend glass do all kinds of things with glass you never thought of, we walked through the exhibits and tried all the goofy stuff they had to do, we even made our own glass sculptures which was very cool. With the help of a glass maker we each got to pick the colors we wanted then blow into the long glass tube to inflate the super hot glass blob. It was a ton of fun and as you can see we got a little case of the giggles when we were looking through the big water filled magnifying glass.
Watkins Glen
Day 240
I took Sofie to Watkins Glen, I haven't been there in years, she's never been and it was funny listening to her questions, she thought we were going to have to climb the cliffs, I told her there were steps, she said she didn't want to go to high, I told her we weren't we were only stopping for a quick visit on our way to Corning, she asked again if we had to climb the cliffs, I said no there were steps, it went on like that for a while. Holy cow, I didn't know little kids could ask so many questions.
