Day 318

So today I had exactly 12 minutes to find a photo, at least one in the daytime. Since it gets dark before I leave work and this morning it was miserable on the way to work, and I couldn't go at lunch because today is my little brothers birthday and I took him out to lunch. So I had 12 minutes from the end of lunch till the time I had to be back to work. I took the long way back to work and noticed the corn fields blowing in the wind and thought what the heck, it looks kind of cool and I bet in black and white it might look better. When I got home and looked at the picture it really was more interesting than I thought, but you really have to look at it. You can see the neatly spaced stalks broken and blowing in the wind,  how graceful the leaves look, to me I can really see the motion and the chaos. But if you look it's not chaotic at all.

"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds." -George Santayana

Day 317

It was a slightly calm day for a Monday, unusually warm, if the leaves were on the trees it would have looked like a summer day. This year is rapidly coming to an end, I mean next week is Thanksgiving then Christmas and New Years and the year is over. It will be over in 49 days I have to find 49 more photos to complete a year. I won't get ahead of myself, I will just worry about tomorrow and what that will bring.

"While there is perhaps a province in which the photography can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." -Dorothea Lange

Day 316

Every time I see these ducks, northern shovelers, I laugh, to me they look just like Daffy Duck, which reminds me of the Looney Tunes cartoons which are my most favorite. They put any cartoon made today to shame, yes they were a bit violent but they are cartoons and wicked funny cartoons at that. There is just something about the fact that they are made the old fashioned way, hand drawn nothing fancy just the cartoon and a voice, in the case of these particular cartoons just one person making all the voices. But the best part of watching them is that I am instantly brought back in time sitting on our couch laughing with my brother and sister while we watched. 

Daffy Duck - "What a fantastic view." Bugs Bunny - "Unless you're in the audience in which case you've been staring at an elephant's behind for 30 seconds."