Blue Iris

    The other day I was on River Road in Trego where there are 2 area where the river meets the road. Over the years I have seen otters, frogs, blue heron, water lilies, butterflies, dragonflies and a variety of flowers at these spots. In early summer blue iris pops up and they are close to the road and ready for my camera. Usually I use a closeup lens to shoot with, but this time I used a 300 mm zoom lens. I can stand back and it captures the iris clearly and blurs the background. For some reason there are a tone of these blue iris around this year and I love it! God sure made a beautiful flower!!! Here are a few of the photos from that photo shoot and a few others from this past week. Enjoy and God Bless.

Spring Flowers

One of the great joys of Spring time is the abundance of beautiful flowers popping up. Admittedly many of them are what most people call weeds and will go to extremes to eliminate them in their backyards. But even these "weeds" were made by God for us to enjoy, at least for a little while. Here are some of the photos I took this least week of some of the early spring flowers. God's beauty and glory.

Not a wasted Trip!

My goal for today was to work at the Barron Church. There is quite a bit of cement caulking to be done to keep the rain out of the building, so I loaded the van with tools and stopped at Menards to pick up some cement patch. Everything was great until I got to church and realized that I forgot my keys at home. I couldn't get into the church or the shed, so the next best thing was to head home and try to take a few photos on the way. There was no sense in taking the usual way home, so I took the side roads. It was not a wasted trip! The side roads had plenty of little ponds, frogs and a lot of turtles, not to mention the wild flowers were popping out. Here are a few of the photos I took today and yesterday when I visited Crex Meadows. I just love Spring!   

Walk in the woods!

It has been months since I have taken a walk in the woods. It has either been snowing, too cold or too slippery to take the walk. Finally the other day was just right - "not too cold or not too hot,but just right" said Goldilocks. But for taking photos everything was just a dull spring brown and not a lot of color. As I looked around I thought this was not a photographer's paradise. Then I remembered rule one: There is always something to take photos of and turn into a thing of beauty. In this case there were textures every where in the leaves, dead tree bark and the trees. After I took these photos they sat on my computer for several days and I almost put them in the recycle bin. Then last night I began to re-look at them and edit them. Here are some of those photos from the walk in the woods. There is some beauty in everything, even the dull woods.God sees beauty in everything - even ME!