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!
Commanding the Sky
Day 84
There are some things in the world that have such a commanding presence you can't help but look at them and be in awe. For me one of those things is the bald eagle. I'm lucky, there are a few living in my little area of the world, for a time there was even a pair nesting in a tree on the driveway that leads to my brother's house, that was a cool summer, we would watch them everyday, flying to and from the huge nest looking for food for their young. Today, I was at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge seeing what I could see, mostly ducks of one variety or another, they're on their 
way back north right now and are at their most colorful in the spring, so I was mostly spending my time trying to identify the different types, I had my camera but they were just a bit to far away to get any kind of good picture, so I was content just to watch them. As I sat in my car I saw a bird flying and remarked to myself, that is one big bird, I thought it was a turkey vulture, they have a large wing span but then I noticed the way it was flying and thought nope, that's an eagle. And it was, a juvenile bald eagle, even though it doesn't have the traditional white head and tail yet, it's still an impressive bird. Just look at them, they know they're the coolest thing in the sky, way cooler than any other hawk. Don't get me wrong, my favorite types of birds are the eagles, hawks and falcons, but eagles take the cake. I once photographed the eagle that lived near my brothers house, it was sitting in a tree and it looked down at me, right at me, right in the eyes, it scared the crap out of me, don't believe me? Check out the photo, I thought it was going to come and take my camera away, like I was the paparazzi hiding in the bushes and he was George Clooney out on a date...
"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes." -E.F. Schumacher
Here Comes the Sun
Day 83
As I've said, I love to photograph the sunset, sunrises are nice too, the problem with photographing the sunrise is that you have to get up before the sunrise. I'm not known as a morning person, so the only sunrises that I usually photograph are this time of year, when the sun comes up on my way to work. So here's another beautiful spring sunrise for you all to enjoy, I'm going to bed early!
"Another sunrise, another new beginning." -Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Color Green
Day 82
Today is brought to you by the color green. With our warm weather everything is turning green, the grass the trees, the bushes, everything, a million colors of green. Here in Geneva there are a lot of willow trees, they line the lake, I'm not sure why or how there were planted there but they are there and always have been. Maybe I will Google it to see, but that will have to be for a future post. The willow trees are all starting to bloom, they are the most beautiful color, they look like waterfalls of beautiful yellowy green water. I hope you can get out and check out the world coming to life while everything is new!
"But only God can make a tree." -Joyce Kilmer
Purple
Day 81
Usually when I get ready to write the days entry, the process is, I take a picture during the day, then after I download it I stare at it for a while and write a couple of paragraphs on whatever jumps to mind, then I look for a quote to go with the picture. But today I did it a little different, I had seen a quote and thought I would take some sort of photo to match, the quote struck me as interesting, I wonder if God would get pissed off about something, I don't think so, actually I think things like not noticing the beauty in the world makes God sad, not pissed. I mean after all someone had to have the idea to create such beauty for us to enjoy. I know there are scientific reasons for everything, evolution and all that, and I don't disagree, but someone had to have the idea for it all, and someone had to create all the smart people that discover and prove everything. I know people will think you can't believe in both, evolutionism and creationism, why not? Something had to give a white flower the idea to turn purple to attract more bees so it would pollinate other flowers and make more purple flowers, why couldn't it be God's idea?
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and not notice it...People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back."
-Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Spring Sunrise
Day 80
Even though it feels like summer, today at 1:14am spring officially arrived and I for one couldn't be happier, I know it can still snow, after all I once had a flight to Florida delayed by a snow storm...in April, and once in high school played a softball game while it was snowing...in May. I don't think that will happen this year, it's been such a mild winter that it can't snow now, can it?
Spring is when you feel like starting fresh, spring cleaning, fixing up the outside of the house, getting the garden ready, all kinds of fun outdoorsy stuff. Fresh air, sunshine, warmer days, sleeping with the window open, wearing shorts, trees and flowers blooming, allergies, it's the best time. When it doesn't take you 15 minutes to get dressed to go outside it makes everything more tolerable, I like being able to just walk out the front door with the dogs, they like it too, they're small dogs and they don't like the snow on their undercarriages, if you know what i mean. So from the bottom of my dogs, well, bottoms, happy spring!
"The beautiful spring came; and when Natures resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
-Harriet Ann Jacobs
