REFLECTIONS...

Walking near Times Square there are many, many tall skyscrapers.  It was the witching hour with the sun starting to go down.  Each building had something different reflected in it.  I LOVE NY!

JUST LOOK AT THIS PLACE...NYC

Copper roofs and lots of elegance...then the skyscrapers came!!

ELLIS ISLAND...

JUST PLAIN OLD BEAUTIFUL ARCHITECTURE~~

HITCHHIKER...

Talk about a smart pigeon!  This guy hitched a ride on the ferry from Liberty Island to New Jersey.  He was very content to just sit there within grabbing distance and be photographed.

CACTUS WRENS NEED A PLACE TO LIVE, TOO...

A cactus wren made a nest in our cactus.

CATTLE IN THE DESERT...

We were driving through the desert near our home in Arizona and came upon this steer, just wandering around, no fencing at all.  Arizona is a free range state.  That means that the cattle have free range of the state.  They can go anywhere and you can't do anything to harm them.  Just place a call to the local rancher and he will send out a couple of cowboys to round up the cattle and get them back to the ranch they belong to.  There was once a steer that wandered into our neighborhood and that's exactly what happened.  They cowboys came and took to poor thing away.  I'd have loved to have seen that, but we weren't in town then. 

It's amazing how each state has their own laws and unique situations.

ELLIS ISLAND...

Such beautiful architecture!

SHADOWS...

I don't know what this building is, but I loved the way the evening shadows fell onto it.

THEY DON'T MAKE 'EM LIKE THIS ANYMORE...

I don't know what this building is, but it has incredible workmanship on the outside.  I'd love to see the inside to see if the ornate decor is carried throughout.

KEEPING UP WITH THE FERRY...

These two seagulls were keeping up with the ferry as we crossed.

OLD GLORY ON ELLIS ISLAND

I thought this made an interesting capture.

ELLIS ISLAND...

MAIN BUILDING ON ELLIS ISLAND

ELLIS ISLAND...BOARDING THE FERRY

MANHATTAN FROM THE JERSY SIDE OF THE HUDSON

MAYBE IT'S A ONCE A WEEK THING...

Well, here I am late again.  You just can't imagine how hard it is to post a picture every day.  I'm not even taking them on the day I post.  I have to tip my hat at the smug mug gang.  


I'm going back to New York.  Here is my favorite picture from out trip there last November.  It's just a buoy that we floated past on our way to Lady Liberty.

A GOOD BUOY

Here's a Surprise for you!!

Here's a surprise for you.  I don't usually take pictures of people.  However, this person is very important to me.  He's been my everything for the past 45 years.  I introduce to you my husband, Dick.  He's currently working as my caddie, carrying my camera bag and tripod.  Don't know what I'd do without him.  Love you, Honey.

The Love of my  Life

Yesterday's Daily

I'm just learning Photoshop and don't know how to remove the fish food up in the top of the photo or the leaf on the leaf in the center left.  But I'll work on that.  There's just so much to learn.

Water Lilly from our goldfish pond

Still Playing Catch up...

Back again to get the 2 I still owe you plus today's photo up on the site.  We finally had sunshine today after 4 days of rain.  And I just didn't have the energy to get out there.  Tomorrow I'm taking my camera to work.  I have to get some new material!!




So let me think,  I'll give you a couple more flowers, then a surprise.

Bougainvillea from our house in Arizona

I'M BAAACK......

MISSING FOR 16 DAYS.  Boy, do I have some making up to do.  Two weeks ago, life happened and we were caught up in the whirlwind with no time to ourselves.  So, here I am apologizing again.  But I will post 16 pictures today and that will catch me up.  

I'm going to start off with my children's art work.  I know, I'm scraping the bottom of the photo barrel, but it's hard coming up with 16 pics, and even though my children are 45 and 39 years old, they are the loves of our lives and you probably weren't there for me to show you when they did them.  So I saved them just for you.

This is my favorite picture of Marty's.  I always thought it showed such imagination for a five year old.  Snakes sliding down a ladder, frogs taking a shower on the elephant's back and sliding down the slide, a bird pulling the elephant in a wagon, being lead by a wagon full of peanuts.  What fun.

Jordan, on the other had, is our abstract artist.  Very modern.  I have this on my computer desktop at work.  People are always commenting on it.  They think it's a piece of modern art that I downloaded.  I just love the colors.

OK, that's enough of that.

Here are a few from Arizona.

ARCOSANTI  - A community of volunteer artists who make Solieri's bells.  These bells are made of clay, but he makes beautiful bronze bells with wonderful voices.  It's a wonderful place to visit, especially on a windy day.  Very creative place.  A Scottsdale attraction.

A Solieri chandelier made of bronze.  I believe there was a light fixture in the center also, but definitely made for outdoors.

This is the wall of out house in Arizona.  The quails would always walk on the wall.  The Papa would fly up on the wall and keep watch while the family ate.  He was on hawk patrol.  The Superstition Mountains are in the background.

I actually took this on from our neighbor's back porch.  What a sunset view they get.  Again the Superstitions.  I love those mountains.

One more Chihuly.  This one is called "The Moon".  I love the way they have set in the natural desert.  It is hard to tell, but this was probably 8 foot around.  It was up on a support pole.  All handblown glass.  Probably took months to make.

The Grand Canoyn...what else can I say?  Sunrise...6:15...The sprinkler systems turns on at 6:10.  Unfortunately, we happened to be standing next to it when it turned on.  October...42 degrees...Brrrrrr!

OK, so I was having dinner at Feby's Fishery.  They have the absolute best oysters.  They taste of the ocean.  As I was eating them I realized that the shells would make a great photographic subject.  So I wrapped them up and put them in my purse.  Next thing I know they are sitting on my mirror in my studio set up.  Remember, always shoot your food.

So, while the studio was set up, I ran over to Fresh Market and picked through the produce to find perfect specimens of fruit and veggies.  It's hard to waste good light.  The strawberries came out ok, but the artichokes was a waste.  At $5 each I only bought one and it looked really stupid sitting there by itself.  Next time I'll buy the pack of baby artichokes.  I should have shot the strawberry dessert I bought, but there wasn't enough left to shoot.

Now we'll move on to flowers.  I don't know what these are called, but they have little purple centers and they are so beautiful.  And they make me think spring!!  Five more days.

Hibiscus...I have a ways to go with flowers yet.  I need to do some studio shooting and  get a little more experienced with my lenses.  I'm eager to see how much I will improve by doing this blog.  Once the good weather is here I'll get out and get some more interesting things to post.  For now, we are stuck with what I have done.

Straw Flowers.  I love these plants.  They bloom well into winter and will always leave some color when all others are long gone.  

Spring...Spring...Spring...Johnny Jump-ups.  Easter is just 2 weeks away and we still don't have anything blooming.  Glad I have these shots to help me get through the transition.

OK...That's only 14 shots, but it's after 11:00 and I have to get to bed.  Up at 5:30am.    See you tomorrow with the rest.