Waves in a mud puddle...

     Gusty winds blew all day yesterday.  Rainstorms were roaming around here, too. It was the kind of day to watch a scary movie, which I did.  I also read a book for awhile, one which included a ship crossing the ocean.  After the rain stopped, I got the bright idea to try and take a photo of waves in a mud puddle.  Yeah, really goofy, I know, but out here on the farm no one can see me do such things, so who cares.  I tried to add a somewhat ocean-like color to the photo.

Rainclouds have fled for the time being.  

Now I get to see more of my favorite color combo, blue and green.

Here's another photo taken yesterday.  

Glimpses of spring green were catching my eye, 

plus the clouds were great.

I really like this photo which was taken today as storm clouds were moving in from one direction and the sky was still somewhat clear in the other direction.  Those circumstances provided for good lighting for this scene, at least that's my theory.    

If you click on the photo to enlarge it you will see that there's also a hint of green in those yonder trees.

Happy Easter!

Here's a photo taken recently...

The daffodils started blooming recently.  They never look nice for very long due to wind, rain, snow, cats, dogs, and cold nights.  

I took this photo this morning using the my camera's fish-eye effect and then removed dirt spots using Photoshop.

A simple photo from today...

old and new lilac branches.

There were some photoworthy clouds 

roaming around this morning...

Here's a photo from early this evening.  

Blackbird in silhouette, which is a blackbird's look most of the time, anyway.

Meow, and don't you dare criticize my appearance...

For the first day of spring, here's a photo taken last evening...

And, here it is with the swirl effect applied...

There's not much sign of spring around here.  There was a robin chirping this morning for the first time though I haven't seen him or her yet.

  

In honor of what is hopefully the end of a long winter, here is one of the last snowy scenes I photographed this season.

The weather is warming up a little providing a better chance to spend more time outdoors with the camera.  Melting snow is not very photogenic so I aimed the lens upwards...

This morning, thanks to the arrival of daylight savings time, I was up earlier and witnessed a gorgeous sunrise sky.

  

First it looked like this...

  

And, a couple of minutes later it looked like this...

And, a couple of minutes or so after that, the colors were mostly gone.  So often, opportunities last for such a short time.

Am dusting off the blogging hobby again today.  Haven't taken many photos lately because its just too darn cold out, but here's one I snapped recently...

Decided to try this effect on it...

And, this one...

A fun way to pass some time on a winter day.

Here's another photo from last summer.

We took a trip to the shores of Lake Superior last summer.  

Of course, I took many photos.  

This is one of them.

I like the variety of textures in this scene---water, flowers, and rock.

Here's a drive-by photo I took last summer.  

Its good therapy for winteritis.  

Here's another version of the photo in the previous post.  I was trying out some viewfinder add-ons and kind of liked this one.

Here is another of the drive-by photos I took the other day.  

It was fun to add the Polaroid-look frame.

We had a Polaroid camera for awhile when I was a kid.  It was quite a novelty.  Too bad the film was so expensive.