Favorite things today

We are having a wonderful time...these are just a few of the things I seen and liked today.We toured an ice breaker that is docked just down the way from us a little ways. As we were leaving the area I glanced up and what did I see? And eagle! I could hardly believe my eyes, but if you enlarge this you can see its white head. It was just so awesome.We toured the ship and then took off on a rambling drive. I first heard the geese, then finally spotted them. I only had one good shot of them before they disappeared again behind trees. The gulls were walking along the edge of the water at this public beach area that is out away from town. This is the first picture I took of these two and did not realize till I downloaded it that I had caught them both preening themselves.

This was on farther down the road...we came around a slight curve in the road, and there it was. I was so thankful that there was no traffic behind us! We pulled over and I got out to try to compose a few pictures...these were my favorite two from there.

I sort of like the name--Just a Plain Farm.That is all for tonight...I want to touch base with a couple of my childhood friends and then settle down for the night.

Drive-by shootings....

Are these what you expected when you seen the title 'Drive-by shootings' or did you know me well enough to know it was a play on words? We left before daylight this morn, and I was hoping to see a wonderful display. Little did I dream of what a display of color I would see. It was very frustrating though, to be traveling and not able to stop and take my time composing some shots. But see that dark streak in the sky on the right side starting at the trees--that was actually there; we do not know what caused it. Just wanted you to know it wasn't my camera or me....
All of these were taking while traveling the back roads of Indiana and Michigan...I know the sunrise shot was taken in Indiana, and the second shot in Michigan. But as for the barns, I am not sure which were taken where. I don't think they are too bad considering we were going 60 mph almost every time I tried to take a picture. As you can imagine, there are some that are not suitable for publishing, though I think I will use a few for Paintbox Pictures.
These are just a forerunner of what I hope is to come. I have several from this morn that is going to be for Sky Watch Friday the next time I am lucky enough to participate...which will hopefully be next week. And I have even more barn shots. I would have never made it this far had I allowed myself to stop and take pictures. I seen so many awesome barns that I could spend the next month taking pictures of nothing but barns.
And on up here in Michigan in some spots, there is much more color to the trees. They were too beautiful for words. With them and the fields being ready to harvest, and just the fall feel to the day--it made me feel like I was part of the autumn glow or something. I don't think I have ever had so much fun traveling....but for now my bottom is sore from sitting so long. My husband is done asleep...I need to get some sleep myself, but have a photo I want to post to The World in Black and White before I get ready for bed.

Sky Watch Friday

I have no idea if these will post--blogger has gone bonkers on me! On Firefox it comes up with yesterday's date and tells me that the autosave has failed and I get an error message saying my request could not be processed, please try again. I think it is to do with the autosave.

So I went to Internet Explorer and it is even weirder. To hard to explain. So I may be typing this for nothing. And it may be published and say it was published yesterday, even thought it is Thursday as I speak...11:00 a.m. to be exact.

Going to keep this short and sweet. If I can. Does anyone see the rubber ducky in the top photo? The others were taken the same day--in the middle photo I was looking west, then turned and looked east to take the bottom one.

If anyone else wants to join Sky Watch Friday, it opens later today at the Sky Watch Blog.