splash

splash, originally uploaded by gawdessness.

Loud, messy, obnoxious and pretty and interesting too.
These gulls spent a fair amount of time in this puddle.


Canon Rebel xti, shutter 1/125, f5.6, 220mm, iso 100

winsome

winsome, originally uploaded by gawdessness.

The crabapple tree outside my bedroom window is often weighed down with small, sour, difficult to use fruit that make a mess in the yard most of the non winter times of the year.

It also wears intoxicatingly beautiful white blossoms for nearly three weeks in the spring. Making me think that maybe someday, a child or two or four might want to get married under it.

Sunlight filters through the branches and leaves and dapples the inside walls of the room in the most becoming way.

Then there are the many different birds that come and sit in the branches within just a few feet of my bed.

One of this morning's visitors was was this fluffy, young looking sparrow.

Canon eos 30d, shutter 1/50, f5.6, 300mm, iso 125

snow serpent

snow serpent, originally uploaded by gawdessness.

Cradled in the arms of the dying birch tree in my front yard.

Canon EOS 30d, shutter 1/30, f4.0, 18mm, iso 125

disappearing

disappearing, originally uploaded by gawdessness.

The kids have drawn on the glass of our front room windows with dry erase markers.
When it is cloudy out, I forget that but when the sun comes out, I see things like this bird in flight magically appear in the white cotton of our curtains.
This was done by my oldest daughter.
She loves birds, very, very much.
I love the joy in these lines.

gang way

gang way, originally uploaded by gawdessness.

The camera club, of which I am a shiny new member has monthly competitions.
I am screwing my courage to the sticking point and entering some prints (eek! I may never mention it again - or I might, at any rate it is in the next week or two).
The theme is Things With Wings.
This shot may not be one I enter but it speaks to me.
There are times when I feel like that panicky goose looks - running like heck, flapping my arms and fully expecting my butt to get bit.
Not sure why but I also feel compelled to add this:

The park was geese full,
they are not peaceful.

Forgive me.

Canon Rebel xti, shutter 1/320, f5.6, 300mm, iso 100

stump hat

stump hat, originally uploaded by gawdessness.

Making fashion waves in the most exclusive wooded areas in the river valley, this season - stumps in the know are sporting jaunty chapeaus.

(Spotted very close to the turn around point on our run this morning - thanks to my running partner for being so tolerant of my stopping and taking pictures every kilometre Thanks N!)

Canon G5, shutter 1/100, f3.2, 662mm, iso 100)

works

works, originally uploaded by gawdessness.

Carried the camera with me everywhere today, found this rusty hinge on a gate at the park half block from my house.

When I took it, I didn't expect this to be the one I would post, it was my last shot - but I lke it.

Canon Rebel xti, shutter 1/250, f5.0, 41mm, iso 100