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| Footprint trails of my babies who have already left for school. The snow is deep and needs shoveling. These prints make me smile.Their shoe sizes make me scowl. |
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| I like this picture of the black squirrel running down the tree. This is a view of my backyard. These squirrels (tree rats) are amazing gymnasts. I can imagine one hell of an Olympic gymnastics contest between squirrels and chimpanzees. |
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| This is the view down my driveway. I’m afraid to know what those drops are about. I think it’s antifreeze from my daughter’s car. Rather than shovel, I think I’m okay with smushing the snow down with my truck tires. Hmm, just had to add smushing to my dictionary. I think it should have already been there. |
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| Here’s a nice view of my street. It’s a nice quiet side street. As far as I can tell, there is only one vacant house on the block; every other house is occupied primarily by older couples with no children, or younger couples with toddlers. There are two other black families on my street, but I’ve only met one person. He is twenty-something and drives the neighborhood ice cream truck in the summertime. |
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| I don’t know anything about photography, but I do enjoy taking pictures, though mostly still life. I do remember some photo techniques from my grade school art teacher, Sr. Geraldine. It was something about thirds. Anyway, I just want to play at it for a while before I crack open a book about it. The siding on my house has faded horribly in the sun, resulting in a gross shade of brown, hence the sepia. There is much I hate about this house architecturally speaking. My deepest hatred is for the oddly sized shutters and the scalloping hanging from the useless triangle. You can’t really tell here, but the icicles on either side of the house are massive. They look very Ice Age-y. This is not a good thing. Nevertheless, I really like this photo. |
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| So back to the walking. I like the pattern of tire tracks here. People going this way and that; evidence of the busyness of life. |
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| Even though it says ‘St’, I use ‘Drive’. Why? Because I think Valleyview Drive has a nicer ring to it. |
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| They don’t call my town ‘Tree City’ for nothing. |
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| Tree City Residents use many of transportation. It would have been nice to have someone walking in this shot. As I was walking a biker rode across the street. I put up my camera, but he crossed before I could get the shot. Fortunately, a second biker happened along right on time! |
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| Today probably wasn’t the best day to wear liquid eye liner. But I’m glad that was the only thing running down my face. I like the blurriness of the scarf in contrast to the un-blurriness of my head. I love the colors in that scarf! What's the photography term for un-blurriness? No, I don't mean focus! |
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| Morning traffic. There isn’t much to this photo, except for the plume of smoke in the background. I also wanted to get a shot of the snow falling to the ground. I love snow fall. I hate snow landing. |
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| Ha ha! See how I cleverly edited the name of the institution? If I had time, I’d get rid of the stop signs. |
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| One thing I rarely ever do when I’m on campus is sit outside. I don’t know why. There are a lot of attractive spaces to have lunch, read a book or have a friendly chat. With someone else, not by yourself. Or is that implied? I like the esiness of this photo. |
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| I’m not a bird watcher. In fact, I sort of hate them. I hate them because they scare me. But I do like to look at them. I’m a bird looker. |
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| Almost there. The tall building is the library; twelve stories. I’m uphill and I think that’s why it looks short. I love the dis-proportionality here. And we've reached the end of our scenic morning stroll to the office. Now it is time to make the donuts! Thanks for walking with me! |
