Loving Me Some Ice ...

This is my icy Silver Maple Tree from the nippin' weather two weeks ago. Tonight it will be 5 degrees so I'm making my first Ice Pillars to support my Ice Candles. Here on The Prairie, Winter Art is high on the agenda. Last year I barely scratched the surface of creative possibilities ... particularly after discovering that my House Mate has a PHD in Snow Sculpture.

Thank Goodness ...

If we give thanks to Goodness we should have it pretty well covered.

The Color White ...

While Fall turns to Winter here on The Prairie, I wait for the color White. One might think there isn't much to look at around here, as miles and miles of healthy green fields go to sleep for the Winter, but that's not the case ... and if it's pretty, I will find it. But the color White, I'm talking Snow here, is just so fresh, and so calming.

I returned from my vacation with 1,623 photos after two cuts, and this morning I went looking for the color White. I found plenty and picked my favorite ... this is my Family on the Beach at Marco Island near Naples, Florida. We attended Ron's sister Susan's wedding to Charlie and some of us headed to the Ocean ... it was sunny, it was hot, it was humid, it was everything the Ocean and Beach are supposed to be. And it was White ... I'm a fan.

A Day at President Jefferson's ...

It was raining lightly the day Ron and I spent at Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate. The colors were saturated, just as I like them, and we took a very pretty walk through his beautiful vegetable gardens, along the vast willow lined meadow to the family cemetery, and then disappeared into his forest for the one mile stroll down from Monticello. Vacations are wonderful ... but home is too.

It's All Up From Here ...

I love this photograph. I'm putting it in a show I'm in this weekend called Deck The Walls. I took it this summer at Lake Marsh in Hamlin County while in the area to photograph Garfield Church. I have anxiety about selling it ... even though I could print tons of them and paper the walls of my house, barn, and grainery. What's that about ???

Sky Watching At Longwood Gardens ...

I was involved in the pond at my feet as well as the view above me ... and appreciating being married to a Man who lets me take as many photos as my heart desires. See what's happening in our world up above at http://www.skyley.blogspot.com

Skywatch Friday ...

I am still on the road and the skies are beautiful everywhere I have been. I took this photo at Gettysburg on Wednesday ... it's the monument to the great state of Louisiana. Isn't she gorgeous ? Sculptor, Donald Delue, calls her The “Spirit of the Confederacy” but she is also said to be Saint Barbara, the patron-saint of artillerymen because of the flaming cannonball she is holding in her right hand. See skies around the world, and history as well at http://www.skyley.blogspot.com