My first attempt at Camera Critters

Camera Critters is something I have seen pop up every weekend at some of my friend's blogs, but usually I have done made a post of something else. Well I am running late today so thought i would take the opportunity to join. I got this first of the geese while at Fort Mackinac...it is blurry but I still like it. Part of the walls of the fort are on a hill higher than the rest of the fort, and this is taken while walking up there. I think I like it cause I am sort of on a level with them. And I sort of like the motion the blur of the wings makes.
This grasshopper was taken up on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin...we were stopped at this little place created to pull of the road and view the lake...I spotted him and he let me get several pictures.
And this turkey was also on that peninsula I think...I am lucky it is this good cause again I was in the car.
And now this one is going across the upper Peninsula of Michigan I think...and it is blurry as were sooooo many of my pictures. I took close to a thousand pictures, and at least 75% were from the car. And so many of them are just a bit blurred...it is very hard not to not blur shots taken to the side....looking head-on through the front windshield is much better if the road isn't too rough.

Posting two weeks Sky Watch in one!

As a few of you know, we just got back last week from a little vacation...if I had had my wits about me I would have posted these first five photos then. They are from the sunrise on our outward journey. Not too bad for taking through a windshield going about 60 mph.




Again from our trip, but these last photos show the sunset on our return journey. Again while moving right along down the highway.



I hope these post...I notice I am getting an Error message saying that the autosave failed, so who knows if this will post at all. I tried to put a badge for skywatch on here but that failed also.
If you want to join all us skywatchers, go to the Sky Watch Friday Blog and throw your name in the mix.

I am just going to go ahead and see if this will post....I normally don't post till right before the link page opens at 2:30...our time. Now I am wondering just how much trouble I am going to have to get this posted.

From Fort Mackinac

This is the officers' house at Fort Mackinac...it was one house but divided down the middle. Each side had a living room with a bay window, a dining room and kitchen on the first floor, along with a small room I assume for the maid.




The upstairs was divided into two bedrooms. I don't know why but I didn't take any pictures of the upstairs rooms.

Enlarge the pictures and look at the living room furniture--just look at how ornate it was. I can't imagine having that today, much less in those times. I would not even want to think about dusting it!

These were taken through a plexiglass wall I guess you would call it. It let us see but not touch. I could have looked longer but we were holding others up. It wasn't super busy, but just seemed to be a few coming along all the time.