Wednesday, September 24, 2008

happy picture day

today i found some great photo opportunities as i was killing some time after i got out of an extremely BORING workshop!  {who gives a training on computer software and doesn't let the people in attendance have access to a computer????}
anyway, i couldn't go back to school yet to get the boys because school wasn't over yet, so i took a mini road trip!  i just headed east on 71st street until i was somewhere i hadn't been before. 

here's what i found:

look!  fall is peeking through in this red tree among all the green!  makes me smile!


love this fence in front of the beautiful wildflowers......


this dog statue next to this red fire hydrant {in the middle of nowhere}  really made me smile!




this next picture makes me feel like an idiot.  yesterday on our way to school, we saw three deer crossing the road in this same spot with fog drifting across the road.  i didn't have the camera ready, so i didn't get a picture.  i was kind of bummed.  so this morning i had my camera ready just in case....i knew it was a long-shot.  but as i topped the hill i saw something standing in the road!  i got all excited because no one was behind me.  i stopped in the middle of the road kind of far back so i could take pictures without scaring the deer.  i took several pics, and the deer was still there so i rolled a little closer.  i took a few more pics, and it still hadn't moved so i inched in even closer.  i was going to get a fabulous picture!!! i was so excited!!!  so as i zoomed in with my camera ready to snap away, i noticed that the deer had an awfully long tail. so i zoomed in even more and discovered that my deer was just a dog!!!  but from a distance, as 
in this picture, it looked like a small deer!!!

at least the preacher said it was a cool picture.  he said it looked like the cover of a book!  that makes me smile, too!

3 comments:

GiGi said...

what a hoot! the preacher is right. it is a cool pic and looks like the cover of a book. love it. i think you could be a photographer on the side perhaps.........

nellie rae said...

your pictures are so cool. i love how you have an eye for all the cool stuff! that's why i hang with you! that and you're kindof one of my favorite people.

amy said...

awwwww.......you're kind of one of my favorite people, too!