The ever changing sunrise (and sitemeter)

I suppose everyone that visited blogs today ran into blogs that would not open...mine was among those that would not open if you were using Internet Explorer. I did think and use Firefox and it opened fine. So, I started investigating and found that I had to remove Sitemeter....

In trying to find another webcounter, I discovered that I could not even open Sitemeter's pages at all from IE...so I closed IE down again and went to Firefox and accessed their site and I discovered they are getting ready for a change on their end of things. I figured that it was to do with that, but went ahead and wrote them a nice letter. Just to make sure they were aware of the problem.

I kept checking throughout the day, and finally was able to access their site while using Internet Explorer. So I open my blog and removed the temporary counter I had used, and I went and got the code for sitemeter and put it back on and all is fine. About the time I got done with doing that, I got an answer to the email I had sent them telling me that they had become aware of an incompatibility issue and that it was fixed. I just really like Sitemeter better than the others that I looked at. . . and that is my story and I'm sticking to it.

As for the following pictures, they are more from Monday morn...I have not tried to put them in any particular order....I just think they are all so beautiful. Roger and I kept telling each other to look! look!--if it was not one of us saying it, it was the other. So I hope you enjoy them just half as much as I do. And really, they do need to be enlarged for full enjoyment.

Glad I took my camera....

We left Monday morn about 5:45 a.m. for our days away. I took my camera...thinking I would take pictures there. I had visions of going to the air museum during the day and going for a drive in the hours after it closed. Didn't work out quite that way.

However, due to our early start, we got to see a wonderful sunrise. Roger stopped a couple times for me to take pictures...the ones I am showing are just some to whet your appetite. I hope. I also took some while moving...and they turned out better than I expected.

I am having issues with my computer...or to be more specific with Internet Explorer. I don't know if it is temporary or what...but I cannot open either of my blogs, or The World in Black and White which I participate in. And I cannot open Strolling Through Georgia. I can however open Paintbox Pictures--another blog I contribute to occasionally. So right now I am using Mozilla Firefox, but it makes me wonder how long it will last with it. I have not checked all the blogs with Internet Explorer...I do know that I can open some with it and these I mentioned I for sure cannot. I think there were two or three others I tried and couldn't open, but I forget which ones they were.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy these pictures...I should have got some of them up for SWF, but knew I didn't have much time to visit others, so just skipped it this week. And I really hope they enlarge...that trouble seemed to have been over with the last couple of posts, but not sure how it will be now with this other trouble.

Beauties....

Have you ever heard the term 'get on your glad rags'--meaning get dressed up. Any time I see gladiolas I cannot help but wonder if the term glad rags came from them. They are just so beautiful.
And who would have ever thought a locust could turn into something so beautiful...well maybe they don't. But I love the color of this cicada. I was quite surprised to see it and quickly snapped a few shots. His green color is awesome.

Click photos to enlarge