Dec 13 2010 Lights

Dec 12 2010 Holiday Lights

Dec 11 2010 Holiday Train

Dec 10 2010 Holiday Swan

Dec 09 2010 Holiday Lights

Dec 08 2010 Polar Bear

I took this photo at the new polar bear exhibit at the zoo.  I photoshopped it and got this surreal look, kind of like a painting.  He looks like a bear walking on the moon.  The bears were playing with a plastic barrel that looked like an oil drum.  I couldn't get photos because of the glass around exhibit.  But it was wonderful...one of the bears grabbed the barrel, stood on his hind legs, lifted the barrel over his head and threw it at the other bear!  All the kids were screaming with delight!

Dec 07 2010

Gum drops with a graham cracker door...icing galore!

Dec 06 2010

Dec 5 2020

This Santa is watching...you guessed it, a Buckeye football game!  Now Santa, you're supposed to be making toys!

Dec 4 2010

December 3 2010 Whoville

Another awesome gingerbread house.  I was going to take my mom to a Christmas parade in Lebanon today that features over 40 antique horse drawn carriages.  But the weather report is 1 to 3 in. of snow south of Columbus, so we have canceled the trip.  I needed something to get me in the Christmas spirit!  DAng!

Dec 03 2010 More Gingerbread

This one received my vote for best in show.  The Worthington Inn is nearby in Worthington, OH.  It is an old inn from the 1800's, and is used as a restaurant now.   

Dec 2 2010 Gingerbread Dog House

Even has cookies and milk for Santa.  My dog would have devoured that long before Santa ever got there!

Dec 01 2010 Gingerbread House

Professional, inspired by a Currier & Ives print.  The roof is amazing!

Nov 30 2010 Gingerbread House

Isn't the tree wonderful?  So realistic.  It looks like it's made from pretzel dough.

Professional, inspired by a Currier & Ives Print

Nov 29 2010 Gingerbread House

Professional, House inspired by a Currier & Ives Print

Nov 28 2010 Gingerbread House

Every year Franklin Park has a gingerbread house contest.   Here are some of the amazing and creative houses made entirely of icing, candy, cookies, gum, preztels and cake.

Professional, house from a Currier & Ives Print

Nov 27 2010 Poinsettia Tree

Nov 26 2010 Poinsettias

Nov 25 2010 Holiday Lights

This is a hallway in Franklin Park Conservatory.  I love the colors in this..the oranges and the blues.

Nov 24 2010 Chihuly Glass Flowers

Nov 23 2010 Chihuly Glass

Nov 22 2010 Chihuly Glass

Nov 21 2010 Koi Pond

Koi Pond/ Chihuly Glass

Nov 20 2010 Koi Pond

Ok, I'm REALLY far behind!  The cold weather and sinus problems have been keeping me inside.  Here are some indoor pics I took at the Franklin Park Conservatory: Chihuly glass, poinsettias and wonderful, creative gingerbread houses.

Japanese Koi with Chihuly glass

Nov 19 2010 Fall Foliage

Nature's own foliage arrangement.

Nov 18 2010 Sky High Tree

A skeletal tree soaring against a bright blue fall sky.

Nov 17 2010 Fall Vines

One of the things I like about walking through the seasons is being able to observe all of nature's changes.  Everything looks so different now in late fall with a lot of the foliage gone.  The bare bones of the plant structures become visible and new vistas open up.  I like the skeletal look of this tangle of branches and vines.

Nov 16 2010 Tree Trunk Series

Here is another unusual tree trunk.  It's kind of strange ugly, which makes it interesting.

Nov 15 2010 Perspective

As I was photographing this tree, and I didn't even see the bicyclists in the background.  But their presence in the photo makes the tree look absolutely huge!  Isn't it a great image?
 

Nov 14 2010 Tree Bark Series

Come take a walk through the woods with me, and focus on tree bark.  One of the things I love about taking pictures is that the camera can isolate parts of an object and turn it into something else entirely.  Where as the eye tends to take in things as a whole and is distracted by "noise" in the environment of the object, the picture can focus in on a single aspect, and the eye can analyze it in a new way.  And it is so easy to crop photos with the editing software, enhancing this aspect of pictures even more.  Just look at these fantastic textures and colors....

Nov 13 2010

Come take a walk through the woods with me, and focus on tree bark.  One of the things I love about taking pictures is that the camera can isolate parts of an object and turn it into something else entirely.  Where as the eye tends to take in things as a whole and is distracted by "noise" in the environment of the object, the picture can focus in on a single aspect, and the eye can analyze it in a new way.  And it is so easy to crop photos with the editing software, enhancing this aspect of pictures even more.  Just look at these fantastic textures and colors....

Nov 12 2010 Tree Bark Series

Come take a walk through the woods with me, and focus on tree bark.  One of the things I love about taking pictures is that the camera can isolate parts of an object and turn it into something else entirely.  Where as the eye tends to take in things as a whole and is distracted by "noise" in the environment of the object, the picture can focus in on a single aspect, and the eye can analyze it in a new way.  And it is so easy to crop photos with the editing software, enhancing this aspect of pictures even more.  Just look at these fantastic textures and colors....

Nov 11 2010 Tree Bark Series

Come take a walk through the woods with me, and focus on tree bark.  One of the things I love about taking pictures is that the camera can isolate parts of an object and turn it into something else entirely.  Where as the eye tends to take in things as a whole and is distracted by "noise" in the environment of the object, the picture can focus in on a single aspect, and the eye can analyze it in a new way.  And it is so easy to crop photos with the editing software, enhancing this aspect of pictures even more.  Just look at these fantastic textures and colors....

Nov 10 2010 Tree Bark Series

Come take a walk through the woods with me, and focus on tree bark.  One of the things I love about taking pictures is that the camera can isolate parts of an object and turn it into something else entirely.  Where as the eye tends to take in things as a whole and is distracted by "noise" in the environment of the object, the picture can focus in on a single aspect, and the eye can analyze it in a new way.  And it is so easy to crop photos with the editing software, enhancing this aspect of pictures even more.  Just look at these fantastic textures and colors....

Nov 9 2010 Tree Bark Series

Come take a walk through the woods with me, and focus on tree bark.  One of the things I love about taking pictures is that the camera can isolate parts of an object and turn it into something else entirely.  Where as the eye tends to take in things as a whole and is distracted by "noise" in the environment of the object, the picture can focus in on a single aspect, and the eye can analyze it in a new way.  And it is so easy to crop photos with the editing software, enhancing this aspect of pictures even more.  Just look at these fantastic textures and colors....

Nov 8 2011 Tree Bark Series

Come take a walk through the woods with me, and focus on tree bark.  One of the things I love about taking pictures is that the camera can isolate parts of an object and turn it into something else entirely.  Where as the eye tends to take in things as a whole and is distracted by "noise" in the environment of the object, the picture can focus in on a single aspect, and the eye can analyze it in a new way.  And it is so easy to crop photos with the editing software, enhancing this aspect of pictures even more.  Just look at these fantastic textures and colors....

Nov 7 2010 Tree Bark Series

Come take a walk through the woods with me, and focus on tree bark.  One of the things I love about taking pictures is that the camera can isolate parts of an object and turn it into something else entirely.  Where as the eye tends to take in things as a whole and is distracted by "noise" in the environment of the object, the picture can focus in on a single aspect, and the eye can analyze it in a new way.  And it is so easy to crop photos with the editing software, enhancing this aspect of pictures even more.  Just look at these fantastic textures and colors....

Nov 6 2010 Tree Bark Series

I'm way behind on my posts!  I worked over time and it all went down hill from there!  Catch up time...

Come take a walk through the woods with me, and focus on tree bark.  One of the things I love about taking pictures is that the camera can isolate parts of an object and turn it into something else entirely.  Where as the eye tends to take in things as a whole and is distracted by "noise" in the environment of the object, the picture can focus in on a single aspect, and the eye can analyze it in a new way.  And it is so easy to crop photos with the editing software, enhancing this aspect of pictures even more.  Just look at these fantastic textures and colors....

Nov 5 2010 Hermit Crabs

All those little "pebbles" are hermit crabs! They have one large claw. At first I thought they were very large bugs. When I approached them, they would scurry into their holes in the sand, and drop in feet first, holding the claw aloft like a flag!

It reminded me of the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland:
"the crab disappeared quite slowly, starting with the legs, and ending with the claw, which lingered for quite some time after the rest of him had gone." 

Nov 4 2010 Egret

I took this picture this summer, in Hilton Head. This friendly fellow was just hanging out by the dock where the deep sea fishing boats came in.

Nov 3 2010

Deep within,
I'm found again;

Beside the still blue waters.

Nov 2 2010 Listen

Listen, really listen.  To others, and to your heart, and to "the still, small voice within".

Nov 1 2010 A New Dawn

Circumstances don't matter.  It's your reaction to them that counts.

October 31 2010 Spider

Happy Halloween!