Days of our lives drifting through my mind...life is forever...right? Our lives were running out of time with only seconds left...run...run from what? Wait...what? RUN NOW!
Looking back now, the images seem almost surreal. Everything that happened to us, happened in a matter of seconds. We were all players, fulfilling our roles in this real life and death drama...only it was our life and death drama and it was very real.
Hard to see any evidence of springtime by the river.
And so we went out to see if spring was coming. There’s no sign of leaves on the trees, nor any flowering shrubs heavy with buds. Last year, everything was early and blooming by now. This year, it looks much more like November than April.
Kaity looks for something to shoot … a bird, a flower and finds … not much.
Yet there are signs. Small signs and not easy to find, but they are there. The grass is beginning to show green. The twigs on bushes are red with fresh sap. There are buds, still small and far from ready to burst, but Spring will come. Late this year … early last year. It evens out, I guess.
A bird stopped briefly by, but did not stay long enough to capture an image.
It’s odd not having flowers at Easter, but at last we have some crocuses. I thought we weren’t going to have any at all this year, but though delayed, a few have struggled through late snows, ice, and hard frosts and are blooming in our garden.
As if the benches too are waiting for the air to finally warm.
The forsythia would usually be blooming by now, but it isn’t and looks to be at least a week or two in the future.
Right now, with snow still on the ground and more predicted, it’s hard to believe it’s spring. Last year, spring came earlier than usual and these pictures were taken during the first week of April. Compared to this year, we could be living on another planet.
I went looking for the swans, but they were far away and I didn’t have a long lens on the camera. It was late in the day and the shadows were long and strangely blue. I played with the image which I liked but clearly needed help to make it pop.
I used several different filters to bring the swan out and reduce the blueness and intensity of the shadow on his feathers. The result is more than a little impressionistic, but not unattractive.
They are telling us we will have more snow over the weekend. Maybe just a few inches, maybe a bit more. We haven’t entirely shoveled out from the last one, though the warm weather today helped a lot. It’s still February, so there are plenty of snow days remaining.
So, I don’t think of it as snow. I think of it as photo opportunities! That takes the sting out of it.
The weather is changing. The rain is ending and tomorrow will be a bright day, but colder. You can see bits of blue sky showing through the clouds. About half the snow has washed away, but there is so much more remaining.
Still testing the Canon Powershot S100 and very much liking my results. Finally, a good camera small enough to tote anywhere I go without loading me down.
With camera in hand, exploring European lands, cultures, food, and drink...mostly with a plan, but sometimes enjoying the adventure of just getting lost.
