There is beauty
In the sun's flowering color
But as seasons change
And skies glow with fire
Elegance is soon found
In the fading light
Gentle creatures watch
Shades of time unfold
Half sleeping in the
Lazy, shortened days      

Hi, haven't posted in awhile.
Thought I would share a few of
my new ones with ya.  

Been working on color saturation
in images and with b/w photography.  
I only made a few small changes
on these to get what you see.  
Hope ya enjoy.  More to follow
as my slow dial-up allows.  LOL

Barn
Beauty
Sunflower

Yes, Bubba is the local yocal who rambles the shores of "lando beach" as we like to call it.  Is he real...nobody knows for sure.  We do know this is where his friends hang out and where a band of his brothers play on the weekends. All just down the road....

Don't blame ya if ya don't wish to make it your next vacation spot.  Life in the South, gotta love it!  

By nature I love not
The gentle soul of spring

Preferring instead
The angry snarl of winter

Bitter burning of fires
Heat my dead soul

For nothing bloomed
In this hardened heart anyway

Instead I walked naked
Shivering in sweet agony

Content to shun
The rosy hues of heaven

How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must prevade the whole. ~~Emily Carr

I turn
and turn
let emotions present themselves
to my line of fire

I try each color, each mood
spinning in the mirror
of your eyes
to see how it fits
where it clings
what flaws it advertises
what perfections

I am dizzy
and still unsure
how I'm supposed to feel

~~~~No work done on these just a cd and some flash

This was once a thriving mill town that had so much to offer its residents. Now it is simply vanishing and being lost in time. The ghosts of what were seem to haunt the abandoned homes.

Ghost Town 1 Ghost Town 2
Ghost Town 3 Ghost Town 4
Ghost Town 5 Ghost Town 6
Ghost Town 7 Ghost Town 8
Ghost Town 9 Ghost Town 10

When I saw the new topic I could not resist snapping these two images. These little guys light up the night sky here in the summer. We used to catch them in jars when I as little to watch them flash.

Flash 1
Flash 2

"A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality." ~~Wes Bentley

Thought I would share some of my challenge pics from the last two weeks at ramblingshots.com. Hope you enjoy. Round Need It Need It 2 Door Me Pair Roughage The Point Yellow

Sometimes the window of reflection shows you NOTHING...So, I had to look elsewhere for inspiration this day. I found a beautiful blue sky and not one, but two southern ladies that smelled divine. Not to mention the classic beauty that graced my table this morning.

Its odd how beautiful the reflection of a bad day can be...see If only our vision did not blur the present and leave the past so clear...Life would be so much easier.

I did these for the Rambling Shots site. Thought I would share them with you here too.

In Style Tough Smells Like Reaching New

"Come to the edge," He said.
They said, "We are afraid."
"Come to the edge," He said.
They came.
He pushed them... and they flew.

~~Guillaume Apollinaire