Camaro SS - Smokey Mts

Hi Everyone,
Today, Saturday 29th, while starting our shopping I saw this really great looking Red Camaro, so I just had to stop and take a few shots, eh!! Just as I was taking the last shot the owner came up to put his groceries in the trunk and I commented about how good his car looked and he said that 'It is a work in progress!!' Hey, I'd take it just as it was!!
Then last night we started getting a heavy smell of smoke coming in thru our swamp cooler and my open office window and since we live in a heavy forested area, we are always aware of wildfires. So I went outside and looked all around hoping not to spot any flames, right. I even climbed a ladder to get a little higher than our roof and still couldn't see anything like a fire. But this morning going into town to do our weekly shopping, the mountains were really smokey and then after shopping barely visable at all. So check out the pics and have fun, eh!! Later, 'Viper'

Late but Interesting??

Well Folks, I saved you a ton of time with this posting. I have been taking a lot of pictures and just haven't had time up update my blog, so just figured that I'd let all of those go for now. But maybe I'll wade thru them and pick out just the ones that I think are interesting enough and then maybe add them in the next few days. But for now I've given you a good variety of shots in this group, eh!! When you look at #9365 tell me if you can identify the bird in the shot. I think it's a goose, but I can not really tell. I was also doing still more 'testing' with my camera and my graphics software and tried to label these shots to let you know what I was doing, ok!! Hope you enjoy viewing some of my 'art'!! ;-)) 'Viper'

Lots of Misc, eh!!

Well Folks, I've been a touch lax in getting my pics uploaded lately so here they are. Besides taking my normal shots of our trees, clouds, mountains, last snow, etc, I have a few shots of some 'road racers' that had stopped at Marino's when we were there last Saturday for our normal breakfast. I only got to say 'Hi' as they were getting ready to pull out, as we were coming out the door to also leave. But I really loved the look of the Red bike, so I told him so and you should have seen the biggest smile cross his face!! ;-))

Then for what ever reason we have been getting a lot of visits from Hummingbirds this year. I do seem them at a couple of our flowers and we do have a feeder too, but it just way more visits than normal. We've seen 4 different ones that we can recognize or have seen at one time. But what get's me is that we've also had 'hummers' that actually light and just set for minutes at a time, checking out the scenery!! Today, a couple were setting atop one of our garden stakes or I should say 'rod'. I took a lot of pictures with the setting but they were way to dark against the Pine Needles, eh!!

Then last week we had one hell of a lightening/thunder storm and I took maybe 20+ shots trying to out guess when the lightening would strike by counting the seconds or just getting my camera in focus and then trying to 'click' when I felt the hairs on my neck beginning to tingle!! But I added only one to the group because it doesn't even begin to show the actual strike. My uncle (John Shaw) lives right across the roadway and I could see the bright lightening strikes coming thru the very black clouds way above my head and it looked closed enough that I was worried that I'd see a fire start around my uncle's home!! Right now in daylight we have a hard time even seeing his house thru all the trees, but that night his house lit up like one of those massive 'beacon' at a grand opening, even if it was for only a micro-second, eh!!

Hope you enjoy all the variety of shots!! ~ Later, 'Viper'