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!
Not a Leaf in Sight
Day 344
The question these last few days has been, where the hell is the sun? It makes it a little challenging to find a good photo when it is so dark and gray, no color to be found anywhere except brown and gray. So once I got it in my head not to look for color it was a little easier, I started to notice how some of the trees looked with out the leaves. Each type looked so different silhouetted against the overcast sky, you never notice this with all the leaves on the trees, they look interesting like someone took a big old pen and doodles a riot of branches on a white paper. I kind of think it is oddly delicate and pretty. But the weatherman says a few days this week the sun is supposed to come out...sure it is.
"Winter is not a season, it's an occupation." -Sinclair Lewis
Nature
Day 343
Nature amazes me, trees don't have brains but they still are able to protect themselves. This bunch of trees by the road had these crazy long thorns growing out the the trunk, I mean they look deadly, I wouldn't want to get anywhere near them and they were all over. There is no way a squirrel could get up with out risk of perforation. I don't know what kind of trees they are, and what is so special about them they have to have these deadly needles sticking out of them but they must be there for a reason. They remind me of the trees in the Wizard of Oz, and we know how I feel about that movie!
"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere." -Vincent Van Gogh
God's Thumbprint
Day 342
Admit it these clouds look like a HUGE thumbprint. Maybe God just wanted to remind us that he is still around and this time of year isn't all about the shopping and the gifts. Not that I am against all that, I like a good gift myself! But we should remember that it's not really about that at all.
"This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone." -Taylor Caldwell
Morning Has Broken
Day 341
Another lovely sunrise this morning, the mornings are very nice when you can actually see the sun and it's not behind thick gray clouds. I wish my job could be to sit and watch the sun come up every day, watch it travel across they sky among the blue sky and occasional cloud, then watch it set. I would be great fun to try and record all the different colors you see, there would be more than you find in a crayon box.
"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Small Town
Day 340
Doesn't this scene look like it could be in any small town in America? All it needs is snow to make it look all Norman Rockwell like, but I for one am glad there is no snow in the photo! I think there will be quite a few night time photos in the next 26 days, at least there are lots of interesting things to photograph, Christmas time is very photogenic.
"I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month." -Harlan Miller
