Front door jingle bells. Listening to: Oh, my, a new favorite to explore!
Bliss: Homemade dark beer bread made into crispy toast. Some morning time spent taking photos and editing.
This month, I'm taking part in December Views. The creator of this project, after having completed National Blog Posting Month, felt the need for a month of silence, so she vowed for the month of December to blog through images, and thus the birth of December Views in 2007.
She invites others to join her, though you don't have to take a vow of silence.
I will still write posts (of course!), but I think taking a bit of time each day to capture visually something in my world will be a wonderful exercise in exploring quiet. During Advent, what could be more perfect?
And yes, I post a photo every day, but they are not necessarily from that day. They are usually no more than a week old, but getting outside, looking around with my camera every morning...what a delight!
So, for today, some photos from outside.
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday's Winter Wonderland transformed overnight by a warm front:
The last bit of snow:a square foot in the front yard.
Glistening drops of melted snow flakesin a mini juniper tree.
(Click on this image to get the full effect!)
The last rose,still holding on.
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8 comments:
I am all about making peace with technology this week I guess (I have always been mired in this mad love/hate relationship with my computer and my iPod) because I LOVE GIANT JUNIPER!
Should I go find a juniper bush and get so close I could kiss it and really KNOW what those water droplets are trying to do on the branches? Should I?
Yes!
Will I? Umm, well I am in the office and have a meeting in a few minutes and for all that this campus is an arboretum, I don't know where to actually find one. So instead, I click your image and drink real deep this natural beauty.
Absolutely Beautiful Photography! (all caps cuz i felt like it)
It makes me wish for snow here. ;)
I absolutely LOVE the picture of the rose. LOVE IT!!!
I had two rose buds that I cut and brought into the house hoping that they would bloom but they died. I suppose that it was nature's way of telling me that I should have let them stay outside and enjoy the snow!
I love "the last rose." Beautiful.... :)
I love the water droplets! :)
I can SMELL the juniper when it comes up enlarged and in my face. That's a great shot.
Perhaps you would be interested in making the "invisible become visible once again!
Try this.
Enlarge your juniper pic.
Now, press CTRL and while holding CTRL down, hit your + (25 times). You will magnify your shot 25 times more.
Your scroll screen is now different. Think of an etch-a-sketch screen where you turn the knobs left-right OR up-down.
Employ your arrow keys and begin DOWN, examining everything along the way.
When you reach bottom of the pic, move the right-side of your screen, over to the left-side of your screen (the bar key is at the base and you move the width of that key).
Now scroll UP and look at the wonders you missed.
At the top, move more to the right again, and scroll DOWN anew.
You will notice that the drops of water are in there by the jillions, they are all perfectly round, and it looks like the old Lawrence Welk Show opening up with Champagne Bubble machine in gear.
These are cool bubbles, and I do believe that in one of the bubbles magnified, the photographer has been captured in reflection.
(or is it melted snow?).
Continue the process of scrolling until you have had your fill of juniper needles and bubbles.
Now, hold your control key down, and press your - key (it is left of the + key) to reduce everything. Count 25 times and you are back to "Bliss enlarged" shot.
Repeat all of this with the rose shot. When you do, you will find that natures drops of water are perfect globes in the juniper, but look like breast implants on the rose. I have not seen this phenomenon before.
Go to YouTube and hit America Horse With No Name and let that song play in the background as you peruse the miniature world of water droplets magnified.
The contrast of big drops and desert music is a chuckle for those who can hear (I can't hear, but recall the song from days of yore).
(This is easy if you have multiple tabs above,... and YouTube on one tab, and toggle back to view the water drops on the other tab).
The invisible will become visible.
Separately, any time you are on any page, and the font is no good, employ CTRL and the + as often as you want to press to make the entire page large.
The - key reverses to normal.
I do this often with pictures at www.freefoto.com and the "close up" view is startling.
Recently, they published a photo of a jet high in the sky with long contrails behind.
A closeup shows 4 separate trails, and a deeper closeup takes you right up to the plane itself. It is a unique view.
(Each time you enlarge, you must arrow key to re-center).
As your eye sight declines, the CTRL + or - is a great way to read any page on the internet easily.
Now, I must sniff some juniper anew. :-D
Happy hunting!
I'm also a fan of the rose. Something so touching about it.
belissima!
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