We fly as One

I’m not sure if this happens everywhere – I suppose it does, if this species of bird is indigenous to the area you live in…or maybe birds do this everywhere and I’ve just never captured it until now.

It’s a single thought – One bird (who knows which one) seems to be making a decision for the entire flock to fly in a particular direction and they all go as one.  Great masses of these birds will black out the sky – all flying in the same zig-zag patterns like they’re performing some sort of new Olympic sport.  It’s spell binding to watch.

I wonder if humans act this way and we don’t even know it.  From above, I can only imagine this is what we look like as we traverse from home to work through busy city centres.  Only, we stop for a 7$ coffee along the way.

 

…and then it was winter

As will happen here where I live, we went to bed one night an it was a lovely fall evening.  We woke the next morning at it was below freezing and our winter had arrived.  (Good thing?  All the leaves we didn’t manage to rake up are now covered by snow! It’s the adult equivalent of hiding crap under your bed so you don’t really have to clean your room!)

Copyright – Whym 2017 All Rights Reserved

Copyright – Whym 2017 All Rights Reserved

Copyright – Whym 2017 All Rights Reserved

Copyright – Whym 2017 All Rights Reserved

A day off, a drive and a whole lot of peace

Obviously, one of my favourite things to do with my time off (when I can manage to stay away and upright despite to the medical issues that cause issues with both of those things!) is wander and shoot photos.  These shoots are for no one, go nowhere and generally just sit in my online photo albums for the rest of time, until I maybe need a shot I remember to print for a friend who liked it or needs a cheer up.  I’ve started making my photos into little note cards, where the photo prints on one side of the card stock and then I can fold it and write something nice inside.  Makes for a super quick and personally created thank you or pick me up.

Most times I wander on foot through areas close to me, as I’m lucky to live in a countryside setting that is only a few miles from a large city.   I have pretty much everything close to me that I would want to shoot:  Farms, barns, decrepit old buildings, falling apart with neglect, city-scapes, street art, modern and very old buildings, animals, trees and rivers and prey birds in flight everywhere, hunting for food along rocky-tree lined cliffs boarding some of the Great Lakes around me.  (Four of which I can get to without much travel).

On Friday, my hubs had the day off so I took it off as well and we drove around like we used to do long before we had children and adulthood took over.  I managed some lovely shots on our trip.  I’m going to post them here – little back stories included.  🙂

Stay tuned….

It’s always the simple things that grab my lens and beg to be captured. I think it’s where true beauty lies … in the simplicity of life.

Royal Blue Beauty

This guy put on a show for me!  He was spinning around, opening and closing his beautiful wings….just sat there in the sun and let me shoot him like it was a modeling job. I can’t even describe the depth of that beautiful blue…

SO many photos to catch up on!

I’ve been having a great summer, finding gorgeous opportunities for photos everywhere I look.  I’ve taken to carrying my camera around everywhere…lol.  The grocery store clerks eye me with suspicion but I don’t care, you just never know when something amazing will happen right in front of you.  🙂

In flight

Blue Jay! This was a hard won photo for

me…these guys are fast and don’t like my camera.

Flower power

I love flowers as much as the next person but I tend not to photograph them too often. Sometimes the sheer beauty of them just as they are makes me not want to interrupt what they are sending out to the world.  

I do however like to digitally enhance pics of flowers to make them look entirely unlike themselves. Adding perspective rarely hurts.  🙂 

Notes in harmony with love

I woke up at 11 today.  My son was still out cold, enjoying a good sleep in, and my hubs was out on the deck getting some nice warm sun on his skin.  I drank my tea in the sunshine and all within 30 min, captured a heck of a lot of happy little creatures.

Below:   If you look carefully, you’ll see my subject flying away.

Everyone seems willing to share. 

These two have a nest in the trees – awaiting their little ones.  I love their song more than any other. 

Fly by!

I think he’s my little woodpecker friend.  Maybe not – light was right at him and it was hard to get a clear shot but I LOVED how this turned out.

There’s the woodpecker, sharing nicely. 

Can’t see the birds for all the SPRING! YAYYYY!

And, Finally – the little Robin who gives me hell every time I try to take his photo.  I have countless shots of him screaming at me to bugger off and let him rip up my lawn so he can find is dinner.  This is him sitting smugly on my roof.  He know’s I’m taking the photo but he’s pretending not to care.