Been blogging for over a year...

I just noticed I have been blogging for over a year now...May 30, 2007 was my first post! I have posted over 500 pictures! It has really got me going in the photography again. I just the other night got out my slides and now I am really looking into a scanner that will do a decent job of scanning slides. I thought I only had a very, very few photos that I would like to have in digital format, but I only went through 200 or less slides and found I have a lot I would love to have.

I have made 5 or 6 quilts since starting the blog...some from scratch but some just the machine quilting part. And I have made a few quilt tops that awaits the magic of machine quilting. And hopefully I will get started again with that before the summer is over.

And I have come across blogs which went into my list to check daily, some of the bloggers I really consider friends, and just a couple or three months ago I told my family and friends that I have the blog. I was sort of afraid they would read it and sort of afraid they wouldn't ;)

Anyhow, just thought I would post a couple more barns...some of you have noticed how I love them. When I was going through my slides I seen barns that I have no idea where I was when I took them...some I could vaguely remember the area around them but not how I got there! When I am out, I keep thinking I should make notes of where I have been that day. But I never seem to get around to that detail.

More on the road....

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I took the above mushroom photo at the beginning of my Thursday drive. I have looked at it, but not enlarged it very much till tonight. When I did, I noticed the drops of dew on the bottom of the mushroom. And those petals on top are from locust blossoms.
This barn was on the way home...it and the barn down below are okay. They don't capture the movement of the grass as I tried to. But I thought I would show them anyway. I think you can almost catch the movement. It is just something I wish I could capture...till you could almost feel the wind by looking at the photo.
And not far from that first barn, I came across another field of gold...and I must say it is the goldest field I have seen thus far! This is a pretty good capture of what I saw...it was just such intense color. And so much of it that I had to share it, even though I have done posted some, and seen them on other blogs.

Another of my favorite songs....

I have tried to find this version of this song for years...when I worked at the orchard I made myself tapes--tapes of all types of music. And over the years I worked there, I wouldn't even want to guess how many times I listened to this song. And the copy I had, I taped off a radio show years ago. Just listen to the words...they sure paint a pretty picture!