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!
Red Barn
Day 284
Old barns are the most interesting buildings, they are huge and hold all sorts of things, hay, animals, bats all sorts of stuff. I noticed this barn on my way home from work one night and thought I would go back in the daytime to see if it would be a good photo. Well I haven't had much luck these past few days with the sun, either it's been raining, or super cloudy or when the sun was out it was behind the barn, equally as bad. So tonight I decided to take the photo no matter what the light was because I was afraid if I waited much longer the leaves would fall of the vines that are growing on half the barn. It's the coolest thing, those leaves are bright red and that poor barn is old and gray, doesn't it look like the leaves sucked the red color out of the barn? I wonder if they did....spooky.
"I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it." -Author Unknown
Memories
Day 283
When ever I see milkweed pods I'm taken right back to when I was a kid playing outside in the fall. There was a big field next to our house and there were tons of milkweed growing in it. We would pick the weird little pods and try to unwrap the zillions of little seeds attached to their little fluff. We called them santa clauses, don't know why, but I loved the way they were packed in the pods so perfectly all lined up, if you picked them before they dried out you would get all sticky, which of course is what we would do. Many days I'd go home all sticky and more than one santa clause stuck to my clothes, along with any number of other nature type things. My mother must have had a fit. That field is gone now, there are houses on it now, even the fields across the street that were once massive corn fields are full of houses. It's a shame that my niece and the kids in the neighborhood won't come home sticky and covered in nature.
"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older." -Tom Stoppard
Monday Sunrise
Day 282
This morning was the first cold day of the fall, it was only 38 degrees when I went to work, but on the bright side the sunrise was so beautiful I didn't mind it at all. When I take the photo of the day early in the morning, it actually makes my day, it's not so much that I'm glad that it's over and don't have to worry about it, it's more a feeling of 'I can't wait to get home to see what it looks like". And let me tell you, that's a good feeling on a Monday, it gets you through the day.
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." -Ansel Adams
It's Fall
Day 281
Today was the first time I actually saw a lot of geese flying south, bummer, that means winter is coming. It didn't take much imagination to think it was already winter because it was so cold! Barely 50 degrees. I'm not ready for summer and the warm weather to be gone yet, I won't complain too much about the fall though, I like the cool clear days, and wonderful sleeping weather. What I don't like are days like today, gray clouds and cold rain, it makes me want to take a nap, or go to bed really early and cuddle up under the covers. Yes I could go to bed early but 5pm is a little too early.
"Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to Spring." -Author Unknown
Beautiful Drive
Day 280
I took a drive today around Canandaigua Lake to see the leaves and they didn't disappoint. The early morning rains blew away leaving big clouds and blue sky, a perfect fall day. I took a lot of photos and couldn't really decide on just one for today so here are a few for your viewing enjoyment.
