Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
View from North Beach looking south.
A few more pictures taken while walking the dog around the lake.
Canoes at North Beach
New wooden bridge. Part of a project involving the new bridge, some gravel paths and a seating area with picnic table. Nicely done by the Eagle Scouts.
The house where these dogs reside is about a five minute walk from where I live. The dogs are often off-leash in the garden. They run around the garden and when they see me with our dog Jackson they start barking and they run towards us. However, they never go past a certain point in the garden. I guess there’s an invisible fence. Of course Jackson doesn’t understand this and always looks puzzled when they won’t come over to him.
Lobster Trap and Fishtail by Alexander Calder
Taken during a visit to the Museum of Modern Art, New York in August 2012.
Stairwell
Green, White and Yellow statues. Unfortunately I didn’t note down who created this and what it’s called and I can’t find it on the MOMA web site
Daphne by Renée Sintenis
Above and below. I was looking out from the upper level bookstore when I noticed that reddish/orange divider nicely split in two the upper and lower floors. The contrast between the normal (if truncated) upper level and the somewhat blurred heavily tinted lower level appealed to me.
The River by Aristide Maillol
Daffodil.
My wife loves to grow flowers and spends enormous amounts of time and energy planting, pruning, fertilizing etc. My role in gardening is largely limited to lifting anything heavy and digging holes. I don’t much care for the gardening part, but I do like the flowers when they come out. This is particularly true in Spring. After the long Winter (and this year the Winter was particularly harsh) the bright, sunny flowers really cheer me up. Also I also like flowers because when I’m feeling lazy and don’t feel like going far I can usually find some flowers in our garden, and in other gardens along the road. So here are a few flowers, mostly from our garden – and there will be more to come in future posts.
Rose
I’ve no idea what this is, but I love the colors.
Maybe not a host of golden daffodils but certainly a small cluster.
Don’t really know what this is – some kind of bluebell?
Don’t know what this is either
Azalea – actually this one’s from a neighboring garden not ours.
Still more daffodils
White blossoms on a tree in our garden.
On one of my walks around the lake I passed a number of magnolias. Unfortunately they were either past their best, or the blossoms were so high that I couldn’t get close enough to them. Then I saw this one. It was just the right height. It was a blustery day and the blossoms were blowing around quite a bit, but I was able to hold this one steady for long enough to get the shot.