Photo of the Week~ Week 22

Posted on June 2, 2012June 2, 2012 by Dusty Roads

Here Kitty Kitty

Meanwhile…back at the park

Posted on May 17, 2012May 17, 2012 by Dusty Roads

A few days ago I reported that I’d seen a swan pair with babies at D.W. Field. They were too far away for pictures but a brief stop there yesterday was much more successful. A gentleman there said there were a total of 3 pairs with cygnets but this time only 1 pair was in sight.

aday.org

Posted on May 16, 2012May 16, 2012 by Dusty Roads

I’m not sure how I heard about. Maybe it showed up in my in box but it sounded interesting. The headline read:

Capture daily life on May 15th 2012

On this one single day we ask you to pick up your camera and help us photograph daily life. What is close to you? What matters to you? We will connect your images to images from all around the world, creating a unique online experience where photographs will be shared, compared and explored. Your view on life will be preserved to inspire generations to come.

I was intrigued and of course..hooked. Why not ? I take my camera everywhere just about everyday. So yesterday was May 15 and yes, I had my camera and yes I went out to shoot.

We could submit up to 10 pictures but I chose to offer only 9.

Once I submitted them I got this message:

Thank you and congratulations!

Your photos are now part of history and will be presevered for generations to come.
Until May 22nd we are gathering images from all over the world and process them.
On May 30th we will launch a completely new website featuring all submitted photos.

In the meantime, use your profile page to share your submission with your friends and colleagues or look at selected previews in our news section aday.org/news.

Your profile url: http://www.aday.org/profile/7036

Stay tuned for May 30th!

I checked out the profile link and there were all my uploaded pictures. I hope you’ll check them out too. 🙂 He’s a sample:

April Showers bring May Flowers

Posted on May 9, 2012May 9, 2012 by Dusty Roads

Seems that the April Showers have continued into May with an annoying persistence. Oh I know we need the rain. I know that since we had so little snow that we are starting out in a drought (not good) but it would be so nice to have a little sun peek through. One acquaintance asked “Why can’t it rain at night and be nice during the day?” So as I sit here listening to the rain pitter patter on the deck I am counting my blessings that I got out on Monday..the one sunny day we had, and enjoyed some time in the outdoors.

I picked Nancy up about 11 am. We drove to Hingham where I had some business then grabbed lunch at Panera. By 1pm we were free for a few hours. Like a couple of kids playing hooky we kicked around our options. In the end we headed over to Sharon to explore the Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary. This is another of the Massachusetts Audubon Sanctuaries.

There are 20 miles of trails through fields, forests and wetlands. We chose to try the Vernal Pool trail. It looked pretty easy on the map but I think we got twisted around a few times. It was very quiet. There were occasional bird calls but we never spotted the birds.

We did upset a black snake. In fact I almost stepped on it. Too bad it was too fast to catch on camera. All I got was empty trail!

The only other wildlife we saw was a gray squirrel but he was also quite far from us on the trail. I was disappointed that we didn’t see a rabbit or two but we were walking at a steady pace with occasional rest stops for the old lady (me) .That may have been why we didn’t see much in the way of wildlife. We were just tramping along as well as chatting so quiet we were not. 🙂