Full Moon, Lucy Cat, Hot Road Racer, Strange Cloud Formations, Mountain Home

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I'm still playing around with some of my camera settings and finding/testing new 'tools' that I keep finding in my photo software. So here's hoping you enjoy them all, eh!! ;-)) Since tonight, Wednesday the 26th, is a FULL MOON night, I've been getting some shot of that coming on. Wide angle shots, night shots with/without the flash, zoom shots, etc, and then playing around editing most of them one way or another. Some actually have NO editing!! Then in the 'treefocus' shots I was trying to show off the delicate needles of that one tree to the left, as it really caught my eye when setting up these shots. Then of course there are more shots of our cat Lucy, too!! ;-))

The 'BlueRoadRacer' was parked at our local Hospital on Monday the 24th, when I took Kathy in for a normal follow-up at the Clinic. Instead of sitting in the waiting room with her as normal, reading women's magazines, I grabbed my camera and walked around getting some great cloud shots, eh!! I noticed that the left/front fender had been replaced, so I'm just guessing the driver may have been racing this little 'hottie' a bit to fast around one of our mountain roads?? ;-)) The 'HouseInTrees' is a house that Kathy and I look at all the time, thinking it is in such a pretty setting. Don't you agree??

As they say, Last but not Least ... Lourie, mom of Kalee our grand daughter, gave us a small school picture of Kalee last Sunday when she and sister Sherri were up here for a visit and to bring us some foods prepared by 'Chef' Sherri, but that's another story, eh!! ;-)) Anyway, I took the small picture, scanned it and by enlarging it that much, it not only was more 'grainy' but had hundreds of tiny white specks or dots all over the picture!! So I did a LOT of editing the picture and then made 4 different sizes/copies, 2 with frames, so that I could use them myself as in this blog update and so any of the family could 'save' them to their own computers, eh!! What a looker now that she ditched that yellow-blonde hair color!! ;-))

Later, 'Viper'

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Our Fall Colors are stating to show up here, with a lot of leaves disappearing and some reds & yellows coming on. So most of my shots are of scenery like my normal clouds, trees, bikes and sunset shots. But while I was shooting a close up shot way high in one of our tall pines, a Raven fly into the shot and I got him quite by accident on the first shot. The next 2 shots I was hoping he would turn around and face me, but he decided to fly on away. The flower shots after the 'Quilt' shot, were all taken just outside the quilt shop door facing Hwy #3 or Trinity Lakes Highway. Our local Garden Club plants and cares for these flowers year after year. They always look so nice in summer and now they are fading away with fall coming on around here.

Be sure to check out the 180º pano shot ... DSCF5992-98_StormClouds_180-Degree-pano.JPG ... of how our day look today while we were in town shopping. We got a drop or two while shopping and when we arrived home it was trying to sprinkle a bit. But about an hour or so later, it really cut loose for about 20 minutes. But no big raining that we need so badly around here. Everything is so dry and dying and our well is so low!!

Then I added some 'misc' graphics people send me in emails and such, and thought I enjoy them too. The 'Before_AFTER' & 'HillaryClinton_Bazaar' pictures came together with a little note stated that these make overs didn't help her one bit!! ;-)) The 'Autos_Flames' shows you what a 'REAL' custom flame paint job looks like, eh!! The 'BikersRoad' is what I think would be fun riding, since I'm a biker and the 'Bikes_YellowTrike' is just plain cute!! ;-))

Now for the 2 videos ... do NOT download these unless you just MUST see them OR you have a 'hi-speed' connection!! Because they are fairly large files, ok!! And saving the best for last, if you remember me adding pictures of baby Maia awhile back, well she just had her FIRST Birthday Party and proud granny, Kathy's 'baby' sister Karen, sent us these pictures a couple days ago. One year old!! Hmmm .... just where does the time go??

Later, 'Viper'

Doe & 2 Fawns, Squirrel, Storm Clouds, Nissan Truck, Maxine & Dead Plants

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I been playing around with PDF's a bit and if you like Maxine Cartoons, I have a slide show 'Maxine_20070919' and a PDF 'Maxine_20070919.pdf' listed at the end. ONLY view the PDF file if you are using a 'hi-speed' connection, as it's about 1.5 MB's!! Otherwise, just check out all the pictures as normal either with the 'ALBUM' slide show OR individually. Your choice as always.

The 'NoWater' shots are our poor dead plants on our deck, because of our lack of water this year. I really miss all the color we usually have on the deck, because of all the stuff that Kathy put all around the deck. I've been using what little water we can share, to keep our 2 new trees, my potted tree, Kathy's tomato plant and our pretty climbing vine watered just enough to hopefully keep them alive till we get some rain!! Speaking of rain, we've had some bitchin' storm clouds as you'll see in my pictures, but NO actual rain to date. This morning I could see some almost invisible rain spots on our deck, but even that was gone within the hour. It's been cold and dreary all day long, but no rain in sight.

There are so many shots of our local deer and squirrel, mostly because this is the first time I've ever had them actually pose for me. They seemed to just ignore me and go about what ever they were doing, eh!! I throw away about 1/3 of my shots, because they were not focused, blurring or I didn't have the camera aimed at them good. Why you asked?? I was shooting thru my office window and leaning over my desk, trying to aim, focus and hold steady as possible in that position. So the ones that you're seeing are the better ones, ok!! ;-)) The squirrel just kept running all around my driveway area, up/down the little knoll, out of sight and then back again. So I just kept shooting. Hope you enjoy all the pictures, even the 'hot' little Nissan Truck too!!

Later, 'Viper'

Autumn Leaves, Ricky, Sunsets & Storm Clouds, '58 Chevy Apache Truck, Australian Gift

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We've been getting a lot of nasty storm clouds the past few days, but still NO rain!! Like come on, fill up my empty well, eh!! But I did get me some good shots. I was at our local State Farm dealer a few days ago and asked about that beautiful chainsaw carve Eagle that I was showing off in my last Blog Update. It WAS made by our local guy and I told them that I'd taken some shots and put the shots up on my Blog too!! So people all around the country would get to see it too, eh!! So while I was there I took a better angle, framing and sun light shot. Enjoy!!

The Flag in a couple of the shots is on our deck and the winds were really a whipping it around while I was shooting, so I just left it in these shots. The Chevy Apache truck for sale belongs to one of the guys that works at Tops Market were we get our groceries, so since I like 'hot' custom vehicles I just had to take a few shots, right!! ;-)) The 'WildEdit' shot was a badly out of focus shot that I just played around with till I got something that kind of looked like an artist's painting to me. Interesting, eh!! I took a few shots of Ricky, because it was interesting to see him walk all around the edge of the car windows and not fall off, eh!! ;-)) All but this one were out of focus because he just kept moving all the time. The shot of Kathy's Kitchen Tall is something that one of her friends sent her from Canada, after she got back home from an Australian vacation, because it would have cost way to much to send it directly while on vacation!! We thought it funny that the pictures were 'designed' in Australia by an Australian Artist, BUT ... was made in CHINA!! ;-)) I see that I spelled 'Autumn' wrong, but it's way to much trouble to go back and change it, and I wanted to show you that some leaves around here in our mountains are starting to turn colors already.

We're at about 2,800 ft elevation and we've been getting high temps in the mid-60's the past few days and in the mornings neither Kathy or I want to get out of our nice warm bed!! ;-))) This morning was our normal shopping day, so we got up at 8 am and when I got out of the shower I wished that I'd turned on the bathroom heater before showering. After I got dressed and went to put out our Flag I looked at the temp and it was ONLY 51º at about 8:30 am!! We left for town about 9:15 am, went to Marinos to eat breakfast, it was way to noisy and crowded, so we went across the street to BK and as soon as we got out of the car, OFF came our jackets, eh!! Strange weather!!

Later, 'Viper'

Doe & Fawn, Custom Bikes, Misc Graphics, Tattoo-Winged Girl

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I've got another batch of miscellaneous stuff again. I left in 6, including the wings tatoo graphics that we're in my emails. The shots of the Doe and Fawn that dropped by for a visit, were taken out of my office window. I'm positive that in the past 31 years of living here, that momma brings by her new babies year after year and then those babies pick up the tradition and bring their new babies by and it just continues thru the next generation, right!! At least that's what Kathy and I like to believe anyway!! ;-)) The 'BKBikes' shots were taken at our local Burger King, while I was there getting some foods for us to take home. I'm a biker to those that don't know it, and my love of 'springer' front ends is known far & wide, and yet I've never own a bike with a springer front end in my 47 years of riding bikes, eh!! ;-0 The 'Intruder' that was parked by the Harley was a nice clean bike too, with a candy 'firemist' type paint job, but no match for that bitchin' paint job on the HD, eh!! ;-)) Then on shopping day as we were leaving the Tops parking lot facing our local consignment store, here was a guy cleaning/shining a custom 'Big Dog' Custom Bike and of course I had to stop and get a off a few shots, right!! While shooting and talking, I found out that Bob had helped install the carpet in our house and the rental house, eh!! The bike has won in 3 bike shows and if beautiful!! I really like that front wheel too. I can see it on my own Honda Spirit, eh!! But Bob wouldn't let me have if like for FREE!!!! ;-0

The 'Eagle' shots were taken at our local State Farm Agent, who btw insures most all of our property, minus my bike, because Progressive Ins Co price was about 50% cheaper at the time I purchased the bike for the same or better coverage. Just a hint to any bikers seeing this, eh!! I just happen to love Eagles anything, but this really caught my eye. I've got to find out if it was done by a local chainsaw artist that has his works all around town. I hope you enjoy this type of art as much as I do. Enjoy, eh!! ;-)) The 'TexileTraditions' shots were taken at a local Quilt Shop. We had stopped by to pick up some tread, material and fat quarters. They change the wall hangings about every month, so I got some more pretty quilt patten shots, right!! All of the 'image' shots I pulled out of slide show or power point presentation that one of my ebuddies sent me and instead of just forwarding them to all of my other ebuddies, I just added them to my Blog for everyone/anyone to see too. The 'Album' slide show that is included as normal includes ALL of the pictures this time, if you just want to view it alone, ok!! ;-))

Later, 'Viper'