Miscellaneous

The snow-covered tree image popped up in my FB Memories this morning, from a post 2 years ago on this date. I've always looked at trees, foliage, nature... in terms of "layers". It's sort of like having hundreds of clear acetate sheets/images on top of one another. I also think of looking through a microscope? The other images are from the first tree photo I was editing for my foggy Sunday walk post the other day. It's a rabbit hole I find hard to resist jumping into...

It started snowing halfway through my walk this morning. Pretty, especially with the streetlights when I got closer to downtown and the river. I didn't take any photos. This shot was taken after a light dusting of snow in Feb 2021.

Yesterday, Sunday morning, 9am and I look out the window: Sunshine! Photo walk! By the time I got to the river, it was misty and foggy. Foggy! Yes! Photo walk!

 

more tree trunks, from a walk in Cebu last year on this date, 11Feb2022

One of my favorite things in life right now is reading bedtime stories to our 5yo twin granddaughters. I love how they correct my pronunciations, and interrupt me with their backstories. Lots of giggling and laughter, and negotiating for more books...

two photos from 9 years ago an this date, 10Freb2014

I think these photos were taken during the same walk. I usually shoot with the camera settings on Auto, and I got a warmer image in the first shot. I tried to get a cooler image by editing it just now.

Nothing quite like leafless trees in Winter, with early morning sunlight and blue skies - 9Feb2021

8Feb2021

I'll start taking photos again when it warms up a little more. This morning was a full moon 37F walk. Thoughts of Cebu. Until then, it's deja vu time with my FB Memories... These were from 8Feb2021.

A big part of photography for me is the editing after I return home. I'm still going through our island hopping photos, and finding ones I passed on the first time. The man in the small boat came out to tell us they have a larger boat to take us in to the island if we wanted to visit. Typhoon Odette completely destroyed their pier, and much of the restaurant.

Reading the newspaper this morning, I thought about one of my favorite quotations: Murray, from the play/movie "A Thousand Clowns": "It's like those little cars in the circus, you know? This tiny red car comes out, hardly big enough for a midget, and it putters around, and suddenly it's doors open and out come a thousand clowns, whooping and hollering and raising hell."

I came across these shots in my FB Memories this morning, from a post 10 years ago. My brother started painting and decorating skulls for Halloween, and ended up with quite a collection. I have one that I use for my knit cap holder.

8 years ago

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February 4, 2015 

 more island hopping in Cebu photos...the video was shot with a goPro

I haven't been taking photos lately, mostly because of the cold, and my desire to walk for the exercise. I looked through my Cebu island hopping photos yesterday, and edited some shots that I passed on earlier. Typhoon Odette completely destroyed the pier where we would normally get on small boats to get us out to the larger Banka boats. We had to walk out to those smaller boats first.