Blogs of everyday activates and adventures.
Water Falls in the Winter, I hope everyone had a good weekend. It has been some strange weather everywhere. It warmed up a bit here so I headed to the water falls to see what they looked like and took a few photos.
This photo below was taken last summer just to show you what is coming soon. 💕
Colorful Lights of Winter, this first shot was at just the right angle to see the colorful lens flare. Which almost looks like light from a prism, this is a new technique when I looked it up, using prisms to create colorful light refractions. I might have to get some prisms and try something new. 🤔
And a short video of blowing snow here where I am after a light snow fall, posted at the bottom of the page.
Below is a Photo of the flower, Queen Anne’s Lace, this is what it looks like in the winter.
This is what it looks like in the summer below
Have a Great Weekend
A Winters Sunset, I don’t see to many colorful sunsets this time of year. It depends on how overcast the sky’s are by nightfall. But when I look out the window and see a touch of orange in the sky, I bundle up and head out to take a photo just so I don’t miss it. Sights like this are few and far between this time of year.
A Winters Sunset
Creating Bokeh Lights in Photos, I love taking photos to create the circles of light that they refer to as Bokeh. It is where you put the light behind your subject and zoom in. It right up there next to sparkles for me.
Creating Bokeh Lights in Photos
Just a Little Ice Formations at the Lake this month. When the sky’s are blue the ice is blue. The reflection of light. Everything is in winter hibernation, even me when it is this cold out.
Shades of Winter Blues, there are so many shades of blue in the winter. Blue happens to be my favorite color and then green. Must be why I like the forest, lakes and oceans. Amazing how each season has an abundance of color for our eyes to see.
Blue is the rarest color in nature and most often not the result of pigment. Most things in the natural world that appear blue come from the refracting of light through structures designed to reflect this color.
And he made the vail
[of] blue, and purple, and
crimson, and fine linen, and
wrought cherubim’s thereon
Shades of Winter Blues
She is Looking Right at Me, I opened the door to go outside and happen to have my camera. She did not run away right off like she usually does. She just stood there looking at me, so I took a couple of photos as she was licking her lips of the fresh bird seed.
I think she is telling me to bring some more food.
And when I told her No, she stuck her tongue out at me.
She is Looking Right at Me
Eyes Glow in Different Colors, I have mentioned that it is really cold here, so I have a lot of time on my hands. This allows you to see how my thought pattern works in the mornings. I was taking photos of my dogs this morning with the flash on and that is when I noticed thy have different color glowing eyes. So I had to look up why.
Eyes that glow in the pitch-black night make for many a scary tale. But the glowing eyes is what makes them see better at night. That light-reflecting surface, is called tapetum lucidum.
When light enters the eye, it’s supposed to hit a photoreceptor that transmits the information to the brain. But sometimes the light doesn’t hit the photoreceptor, so the tapetum lucidum acts as a mirror to bounce it back for a second chance.
And not all eyes animals’ glow the same color. There are varying amounts of pigment within the retina, and that can affect the color, along with age.
Now it did say cats eyes glow also, I took a lot of photos of my cat with the flash on and I could not get the glow to come out. Juts the look of disdain and stop flashing my eyes, look from her.
Most animals that have a tapetum lucidum in their eyes are mammals, nocturnal animals.
Some species of birds – such as owls – have eyes that appear to glow.
But birds do not have a tapetum lucidum layer in their eyes. But their eyes are beautiful just the same.
Eyes Glow in Different Colors
Under the Shadow of Wings, I hear whispers in the wind. These tiny little birds are flying all around me, not afraid nor shy. They land on my camera at times as I am standing there near by.
I hear whispers in the wind from the fast beats of their wings. Who, who are these birds with their mighty wings?
But of course the tinniest of birds, the Chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee
If you stay there long enough, you might see the Shadow of the Wings. May your spirit take refuge in what follows; In the Whispers in the Wind.
What Do You Do in -18 Degree F, Well a lot of people are experiencing cold weather this week. For me as well, when I woke up this morning to minus 18 degrees F and windy. But the sun is out, so I have to go outside. Why you might ask? (video below)
A friend of mine from the blog post; WALKIN’, WRITIN’, WIT & WHIMSY, Told me about freezing Soap Bubbles in cold weather. So I had to give it a try.
Every bubble is different just like every snow flake is different. It was so much fun, my camera would start to malfunction after awhile, as well as my fingers. But, like a kid, I would go warm up and go back and do more.
There are a lot of different recipes for making the bubble mixture, if you don’t have the bubble stuff most children have on hand for summer fun. I used 3 cups of water, 1 cup of dish soap and 1 tbl corn syrup. The sugar is what helps form the crystals and helps the bubble to last longer.
It was windy out so mine kept popping as you can see in the video.
What Do You Do in -18 Degree F
Ice Forming on Lake Superior, I love going to Lake Superior, everyday you will see something different. This first photo is Lake Superior in the Summer, you can see there is a nice little beach for walking along the shore line.
This photo below is the same beach, taken in December 2020. I was standing almost in the same spot. Notice the rocks on the right, the beach is a lot more narrow now and ice is beginning to form. It was very slippery.
This photo was taken last month, same spot and the rocks on the right. But now it is all ice all the way out to the left of the photo. There were footprints going out over the ice and I was tempted to walk out there. But I decided not to. That is some powerful water running underneath that ice.
It is tuff to get a good photo when the sky is gray and all the snow. This one shows a little bit more of how far the ice goes out from the shore line. The rocks are still on the right side of the photo.
This one is just looking straight out across Lake Superior with ice formations way out there. Quite the site seeing all this water and ice slowly closing in on you.
Sand frozen in the Ice, walking on the beach is a little slippery this time of year.
Have a Great Weekend
Ice Forming on Lake Superior
Doe a Deer a Female Deer, Ray a Drop of Golden Sun. Perfect line for todays photos because the sun actually came out for the first time in days. I stepped out the door with my camera in hand and off they ran. So I was able to get a couple of photos.
They have a way of looking right at me.
The two photos below are the same as the one above. Another blogger suggested cutting out the dark area above the deer. This first one I cropped it out but I feel it has to much for ground in it.
This second one I added some background to even out the photo and have the deer in the center of the photo. Which do you like better?
Doe a Deer a Female Deer
What Does Your Imagination See, shadows are quite fun sometimes. Sometimes during the winter I don’t always have a lot to photograph except for what my imagination sees. What do you see below?
I see a tree Gnome, actually there could be two faces, one at the top and the big shadow.
Actually, it is a big tree that fell over in a storm last fall and right where you see the shadow, that is where the tree broke off. Left side of the shadow is higher than the ride side. So it is an optical illusion really. 😏🤔
What Does Your Imagination See
