love Thursday

Just because I thought it was cool.

spring away

Somehow I missed Spring this year.  One day I woke up and the dogwoods had bloomed and the wisteria was climbing everywhere.  I didn't take many photos of the things I saw (and really wanted pictures of) because when I passed them by I didn't have my camera and I just thought "I'll bring it tomorrow"....well, then I woke up and everything was green.  That's it.  Just green, green grass and LOTS of green trees, but no pretty flowers to be seen!  BOO! I missed it.  I swear it seems like Spring never even happened.  Even the weather jumped from freezing cold to swelteringly hot!  Oh well...maybe I'll catch it next year.  These are just some of my most recent favorite shots I took around my lake the other day.  The "pretty" yellow flower is only a weed....it's the only thing with color that i could find!

pretty bird

Last weekend I went to visit Adam in Tampa.  On my last night in town we went for a walk around his new neighborhood just to take a look around.  Towards the end of our walk it was getting dark out and as we were rounding a corner we heard a loud and somewhat scary "ca-caw!" The further we walked the louder it got and we were looking at each other like "what the heck IS that??!"  We soon found out....

I'm so glad that I grabbed my camera on the way out of the door!  I couldn't believe that this beautiful, HUGE bird was just hanging out.  I kept expecting it to fly away, but it didn't...it just sat there ca-cawing (very loudly) and checking us out...

I wanted to get closer so that I could get a better shot, but I was too afraid that the bird would come after me!! He didn't like my flash very much, so after shooting this one last shot we went on our way....very cool!

happy earth day!

Today is Earth Day, so I decided to take a few minutes from my day to appreciate this beautiful place that God has created for us!  It is so easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of our everyday lives and completely take for granted what we have been given.  I got out my camera on my lunch break and went outside on this gorgeous spring day to take a look around and soak up the beauty!  Here's what I found......

Happy Earth Day everybody!!!!!