Some Things are Growing Fast

I'll basically see the entire mushroom life-cycle in the less than 3 weeks I'm here....in the meantime, I don't think that my cherry tomato seedlings even grew a millimeter...

Mushrooms II, They Came From Mars...

In The Front Yard This Morning

I had to get down on my belly for this shot...

Mushrooms

Spring Time in Greater Cincinnati

Beautiful day today...some shots from this afternoon's little trip to the Cincinnati Flower Show which is appropriately enough...in Loveland.

I think these were probably already in the park...

Red Buds & Blue Sky



Hyacinth


Flowers...

I Think This was July, 2005

But like the previous post, these are scanned slides...and unlike digital files from my digital camera, they don't necessarily come with dates attached...

Roaring Forks - Great Smoky Mountain National Park




Roaring Forks - Great Smoky Mountain National Park

Biotopo del Quetzal

These are from way back...scanned slides. Still just looking through all the photos I've taken over the years...holy cow there is a lot I totally forgot about.

Something made me think of my photos and slideshows on photobucket.com (individual links on the right) and I realized I never linked to my Guatemala album...well I corrected that now...which got me looking through a massive folder of slides I scanned back then that I'd copied to the new computer (because someday I'll have heaps of time to organize ya ya ya...) and now with photoshop on a computer with the memory to handle the massive scans...here are a few I touched on this evening. I think only the bromeliad has a version in the slideshow...

Anyway, a really neat place up in the Coban cloud-forest is the Biotopo del Quetzal. We went there two or three times and actually managed to see a Quetzal on one of those trips.

Ferns and Fog - Biotopo del Quetzal, Guatemala




Bromeliad - - Biotopo del Quetzal, Guatemala




Patterns in the Canopy - Biotopo del Quetzal, Guatemala




Small Waterfall - Biotopo del Quetzal, Guatemala

New Mexico Moon

Another old one...

Wind and Moon - Santa Fe, New Mexico

Continuing With the Past

Still going through old photos. This was taken during the week-long photography workshop to learn photoshop I took at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops back in 2006. Our first outing was to Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument...here is one of the photos.

Time - Tent Rocks, New Mexico

A Couple of Older Shots

I found these today sorting through and organizing older photos. These two are from shortly after I got my digital camera, but before I left Guatemala. The first isn't as sharp as I'd like it to be. The rain shot was a failure in the sense that I kept trying to get the little splashes and circles from the rain to show up, but I didn't get it right in any of the shots I took.


Mom and Kids - Antigua, Guatemala




Rain on Rock - Guatemala

Cow Tipping

I'm certain that with a few beers in me, I could tip these cows over... despite the Wikipedia claim that Cow Tipping is a myth.


Retired Cow Out to Pasture and Palms



Grazing Cow

Diversity in Beans...

yet they are all beans...

No Idea for a Title

Besides cemeteries, tree bark and tree leaves, their colors, texture and patterns are something that tends to draw my eye.

Here's a couple more photos I took a few weeks back when Shelby and I went walking down by the Little Miami River with our cameras. This was a rather massive tree that had fallen across the path a long time ago.

Moss on TreeMilford, Ohio




Tree in Giraffe's ClothingMilford, Ohio

A Hint of Spring

I didn't see much promise of spring when I was home at the end of February. I've since heard that the weather is now a bit nicer than all the snow I saw...

Here's a picture I took when Shelby and I went walking down by the Little Miami River with our cameras

A Hint of SpringMilford, Ohio

The Last Bit of Alaska

Here is a misc. collection of photos from our Alaska trip that I've never posted...enjoy (I hope)



One Man Town...I Don't Know Where, Alaska





Picnic TableSan Juan Island, Washington




LavenderSan Juan Island,Washington





Old Russian CemeterySitka, Alaska




SunsetNear Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska





DawnGlacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska

Snow Angel

It looks like it might be a long time before there is any hint of spring. I've been home for a week, and I'm thinking I won't see the ground this trip...

Swing Waiting For Spring - Milford, Ohio




Snow Angel

Smith Bros. Hardware

On the surface, this looks like just another iconic example of the world passing by the Midwest...

But go to Google and search "smith bros hardware columbus ohio" and it is clear that everything isn't always what it seems...leads to articles like this.

Smith Bros. Hardware - Columbus, Ohio

Sarajevsko Goblje Bare

In my last couple months in Sarajevo, I didn't have access to my computer and I also did a lot of walking around and took a lot of photos (Until my camera died). I'm starting to wander through the photos I took during this time period, sort of mentally preparing myself to start organizing them.

I walked to or through a lot of cemeteries in that time. Here are some of my last photos of the huge cemetery, Sarajevsko Groblje Bare. Which I've blogged about many times before, including here, here and here. I hoped to do a cool merge of two selective focus photos, but the idea I had didn't work out like I thought it would....so you don't get to see it :)

Groblje Bare - Sarajevo





Groblje Bare - Sarajevo




Groblje Bare - Sarajevo

Alifakovac Cemetery - Sarajevo, BiH

While going through some old blog entries and some old photos today, I noticed I made this entry and haven't ever put up any of the photos...well now that I have my computer, a couple minutes, and photoshop, here are a few shots of Alifakovac Cemetery. I took a photo of the USAID descriptive placard which is at the bottom here. There isn't a whole lot on the web about this cemetery, a google search on it brings my previous meager entry up #2...

Alifakovac Cemetery - Sarajevo




Alifakovac Cemetery - SarajevoBijela Tabija (White Bastion) in the background




Alifakovac Cemetery - Sarajevo



Alifakovac Cemetery DescriptionMay have to click on this and expand it to make it readable

Alaska Mist

One of the many highlights of our cruise was Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Stunning. A misty morning that cleared to beautiful blue skies with puffy white clouds by the time we got to the glacier. It was here that I began to worry that I would run out of memory cards for my camera. Easy to see why Glacier Bay is on the World Heritage List...

Here are a few photos of the morning mist on our way in to see the glaciers.

Mist at DawnGlacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska




Clouds and MistGlacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska




Mist at Waters EdgeGlacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska

Abstract

I pretty much got my new computer where I want it to be now. I have CS4 loaded, just need to learn the differences and advantages compared to Photoshop CS2. The 64 bit version seems much faster, as does the new version of Bridge. Now I need to start organizing and catching up...

In the meantime, I took this a few minutes ago.

Take a Guess...

Alaskan Bear

In Haines, roaming around with a few other guys from the cruise with a local photographer, we came across a bear doing a little salmon fishing...


Bear, Seagull and Men, All Salmon FishingHaines, Alaska



The Bear Decides the Men Have a Better SpotHaines, Alaska



Bear AssThe Bear Moons the Men as an Insult After Stealing Their SpotHaines, Alaska




Bear FishingHaines, Alaska