Lent Picture A Day (30): Light

Colors- Subtle and Wild (2)

Whitewater State Park, MN

October 10, 2014

This one has both subtle and wild colors.
What a beauty of a day it was.

Wisdom from a Seneca Elder

Life was like water; it flowed on like a river and then entered a great sea and mingled in a vast pool of life.

Old age was like a tree whose branches had been broken by storms and whose trunk had become weather-beaten and decayed.

Good words were like flowers that bloomed and bore seed that lived on after the flowers had withered.

--Seneca archaeologist Arthur Caswell Parker, in his biography of Chief Red Jacket

I Look At Trees From Both Sides

First from one side...

Early sign of spring with

a willow along the

Minnesota River

And then the other.

With the right lighting

the golden colors take on

all kinds of hues at the

Fort Snelling State Park in

Minneapolis.

Changing Seasons in Six Months

Same Tree- Different Days

November 2, 2013

May 2, 2013

May 5, 2013

May 19, 2013

Outstanding In Its Own Field

Whitewater State Park

Elba, MN

10/10/10

Shadows and Silhouettes

Mississippi River

Memphis, TN

2/17/2003

Winter Wonder

Start with a 39-year old winter picture scan from Center Valley, PA.

Add the wonders of computer technology with Paint Shop Pro and perhaps you have

A kind of different picture of winter.

Snow White Tree

Winter at Mt. Morris Moravian Camp, WI

December 31, 2004

More Colors

“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”

John Burroughs

Fall Brilliance

Cannon Valley Trail, Minnesota
October 11, 2008
(with a little color editing)

Smokey Trees

On the left the original photo

On the right an "oil painting" look

June 2012

Trumpets in the Trees

Sunken Gardens, St. Petersburg, FL

April 22, 2006

Sitting Alone

A wondrous combination of lines and then the artificial color contrast of the bench jumped out at me.

From the Bon Secour preserve near Gulf Shores, AL.

Just A Personal Post

Nothing new

Nothing old

Just another day.

Slow days are as nice as busy days.

When you walk among the trees,

You realize how much can happen

When you take the time

To move slowly.

This huge tree (a Sweetbay  Magnolia) is 

10 feet in circumference,

88 feet tall,

with an average crown spread of 36 feet.

-Link to Pelican Post of Weeks Bay Reserve in Albama.