Thursday, February 25, 2010

Snow White Tree

SnowWhiteTree
White trees always stand out in the woods, even with the snow, as if they are taking their color from the ground covering. In the woods at Mt. Morris Camp near Wautoma, WI.
Date: 12/31/2004

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Birds and Building

Ellis.tower.99
The tower of one of the buildings at Ellis Island in New York. The nearly invisible birds in the upper left go with the reflections on the tower from the water around the island.
Date: June, 1999

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Snow At the Edge

SnowPier
Snow and the entrance to a lakeside pier at Mt. Morris Camp near Wautoma, WI.
Date: 12/31/2004

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

An Earlier Olympic Venue

Berlin '70 Olympic Flame from 1936
With the Olympics going on now, I thought I would show the site of the historic Berlin Games of 1936 with the Olympic flame still standing. It has been significantly renovated since I took this picture nearly 40 years ago.
Date: Summer 1970 (scanned from slide)

Thursday, February 11, 2010

A Spring Reminder

Hanging
Hanging flowers cover a walkway at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. Spring will arrive here one day, too.
Date: April 10, 2002

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

A Farm Horizon

Farm
The farmstead makes the horizon easier to discern with the snow and reflected sun.
Date: 1/2/2010

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Stars and Planes

StarTrailPlanes
Star trails around the North Star taken near Lenhartsville, PA, at a friend's lake home. And moving across them are the trails of two airplanes- human inventions across nature.
Date: Summer in the late 1970s (scanned from slide)

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Color in the Cemetery

SnowCemetery
The cemetery at Berea Moravian Church near St. Charles, MN, has color from the cemetery itself. Not as much an irony as one might think when you consider Christian theology.
Date: 1/2/2010