Shawn's Photoblog

8-8-08 Magical Sun

 These were taken before 7 am today on 2 different camera settings...
sun before 7 am 8-8-08
 
sun before 7 am 8-8-08

My mountain today as I came back into my joy!!!

Patch

I was over at Candy's and we were all playing fetch and Patch has so much personality I just had to take this photo. He always makes me smile.   
Patch the boxer dog with a ball in his mouth

Last Day of 2007!!! Dusk...

December 31, 2007 was a sunny beautiful day and so I wanted to photograph the view from my bedroom window.  Such a beautiful day to end such a hard year!!! Somehow that seems a bit magical.  

Snow covered mountain with blue sky

 

Saved the Bee

I was out gardening and when cutting the old dahlias off the plant I noticed this bee sitting so calmly amongst the petals. 

Bee hiding in petals of Dahlia

So I put it in the yard waste bin with the other flowers thinking he would fly away.  I then had awareness that things were piling on top of the flower and maybe he was still in there.  So I went digging and pulled it out and there he was.  :(  I felt so badly so I then tried to coax him onto my gardening glove which he did with a little struggle.  Like a drunk bee.  

I then decided to move him to a friendlier place for him to feel safe so I moved him to this flower and it took a while to get him onto the flower but he seemed to appreciate it and there he sat exposed.  :(  

Bee sitting on flower

I was hoping he would be ok and he moved around it.  He was orginally facing frontwards and moved this way.  I left him alone and didn't want to mess with his journey too much.  I was afraid if he stayed there all night he may get eaten by a spider.  ;(  So I looked a little while later and he was gone so I hope he found a safe place to rest.  :)   

It's a frog Day...

I went out to water my Dahlias and out jumped a brown frog.  They tend to live in the hose reel so I have to be careful when unwinding it.  I caught him and released him under the deck where he would feel safe. 

I then went over to cut the old dahlias off the plant before watering and when I started watering this frog jumped on top of the spiral staking I have.  I ran for my camera but he had moved so I reassured him I was not going to hurt him.  

So this is the best of all of them seeings the plants were partially in the shade. I did spend some time talking to him.  

bright green frog getting ready to leap from branch

Tulips

Taken at the Tulip Festival 4/6/07
yellow tulips under tree
 
orange and yellow tulips

Mystery

This photo was taken in the morning outside of my naturopath's office.  The sun was behind the clouds and this photo turned out completely unexpected.  It looks so mysterious and almost haunting.  I fell in love with it.  I get excited when photos turn out this way.   

tree with bare branches and the sun hiding behind clouds which looks like night but it is morning
 
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