Um. Don’t ask, but I think this photo will give you an clue.
Elephant Seals, 5.5.21

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the way I see the world
Someone I know and love gets to go to Yosemite this weekend. Someone else does not, so she is making herself feel worse by looking over photos from trips in the past. But so it goes. The life of a musician includes a lot of weekends where other people go off on trips and the musician stays home to work. It’s just the way the job works!
Tunnel View Ice (II), 12.31.15
Winter Trees (II), Yosemite, 12.31.15
… at least the flowers are! Me? Well …

Snow, Trees, Rock, 12.31.15
The fog yesterday made for some fun shooting. It’s rather subtle …
A Foggy Morning on the Pond, 2.15.16
Have some lavender for this blustery and soon to be rainy morning. This is a favorite kind of day for me, but it does mean my walk will be camera-free.
I’ve started going through my 2014 photos yet again, clearing out what I know to be junk and deleting duplicates (when shooting macro hand-held I tend to click that shutter more than a few times to try and get just the right focus). Sometimes I happen upon something that makes me smile or brings back memories.
This one brings back fragrance!
Lavender, 2.25.14

Revisiting my photos from January and February. (I was actually searching for something that might fit the “Indigo” part of the rainbow, as I’m doing a rainbow series. Looks like indigo might have to be skipped over, as I want just the right thing and nothing is screaming, “Pick me! Pick me!”) Typical me: as I am searching I am distracted by something else.
Ah well … why not share a few of these birds, with which (whom?!) I will say good morning!?

Cranes & Geese in Fog (I), 2.13.15
Oh how I love these birds. When I look through all the shots — and believe me there are a ton! — I get the sound of the birds in my head as well. They are not timid and quiet little things, to be sure.
On this particular day we saw birds NOT of a feather flocking together. Or something like that. Cranes. Geese. Egrets. All on the field together. What a sight!
I don’t think I managed to get many shots with more than one egret, but trust me, they were there. Here you can see one in the front. He looks as if he’s posing and saying, “Well yes, it IS all about me!” Or maybe I just have a crazy imagination. (And ironically, as I look at this post, I see my watermark blocking much of said egret. I guess it’s all about me instead. Hah!)