As requested, here is a color shot of the lily's... and a few others for good measure

Flowers from my parents 25th anniversary party

Does anyone know what these purple flowers are???

I'm going to see if I can do this the RIGHT way... Here goes...  Sometimes time and nature produce the best results...  Wells Beach,ME, low tide stroll  0r  c/u of plant  or  Top end  or  trunk designs or  Chains of time  and garage doors and Taiwan roots        Taiwan apartment Bldg. 

Every day things 64' Vette tail lights & rims & rotors  

I think I got it...Yahhhhhh

with this new job, i have access to a car, so i make day trips on my day off.  this week, i made a trip to yosemite.  here's a few from the day.  enjoy.

 tina_carved 

 yosemite_meadow  

cool_water 

 textured 

 yosemite_valley 

 Old brick wall on Fort Clark Springs, in Brackettville, Texas. 

 Brick wall 

 brick wall closer 

 brick wall closer yet 

 brick wall real close 

 Baseball Hall of Fame balls  4th of July flames

Poker chips  Thru the pines

Just a few Macro shots today.

Pretty Lady In Pink

 Daisy Nestled In Green

 Brilliant Yellow Lily C

 Does It Hurt To Grow Old

My contribution for the challenge.  Went to the Arch this morning with my Dad and Step Mom, I thought these might go for the challenge. 

 Arch 

 Cobblestones

 Cobblestones 1

 Man Hole Cover

Have an Awesome Weekend everyone!  Thanks for looking!  :o)

When I do get time to I try to stop at different places to catch some photo opportunity's. This place I stopped at is called Oppenheim Park. There is a small creek that runs across the entrance that I found a lot of life in last week. 

At the end is also a photo I took on the way home from a grad party for my friends daughter (boy they grow fast) It was taken from a road side cornfield.

Enjoy! ;)

 water_plant 

 water_plant_3

 shell_of_life

frog

 dragonfly

 eastern_king_bird

 eastern_king_bird_3

 sunset_7_13_08

I went about 10 days ago to get the biopsy done on my lung and while it was a grueling all day long affair the actual procedure was pretty painless.  The hard part was the 4-5 hours after spent on your back.  this made my back hurt so bad any pain from the biopsy was insignificant.  Quite a few funny things happened before, during, and after the procedure.  First, prior to the thing a nurse explains generally what's going to happen. I was in my gown on a hospital gurney and she said they'd wheel me into the room alongside the scanner table and for me to just roll over on my belly cause they were going to do a posterior insertion.  Immediately, my butt muscles clenched up tighter than a size 6 hatband.  Barb also clenched my hand tighter.  I don't know if it was from concern or to keep in the laughter...expecting me to say something...I waited.  When she finished her talk, about 10 minutes later, she asked if I had any questions and, of course, I said "Well, I'm kinda worried about the posterior insertion."  She laughed and said "That means your back, they put it in much higher!".  My butt muscles relaxed.

I was going to continue this but I'll save it for another day.  Because, strangely enough, my Pulmonary Oncologist just called.  I had already found out it was cancer but my daughter asked me what kind and I didn't remember.  The nurse told me originally but CANCER was all I really heard.  So I called and left a message and the doc called me back today.  She said it was bronchoalveolar carcinoma.  She said it's slow growing and contained and hasn't spread to any nearby lymph nodes and they think whacking it out is the best course of action.  She said probably little or no chemo.  She said the prognosis is good.  I'll wait and not get my hopes up till it's over but it's definitely good news.  Well, maybe not good but better.

I don't like these pics except the one of Jaryd and it's a snapshot at a cookout last weekend.  I thought I'd post them and see how many of you had the balls to critique a guy that's just been diagnosed with lung cancer.

 Bee  Sharpest focus is on leaves not the bee.

 Toadstool  Small section of shot didn't want to walk back to the car to get the closeup lens.

 Deer Path  This was a good idea but was too busy and would have been better before the grass grew.

Don't criticize the snapshot of Jaryd.  If you badmouth him then we got problems.   Mr. Cool

This was a great challenge, I wish I had time to go out and take a few new photos for it.  The castle roof is outside of Lake Garda, Italy; an absolutely wonderful place. Castle_Roof   

The second is of a fountain in the Smithsonian Museum of Art.  100_3967 

Finally, here is a photo of the Arch in St. Louis.  100_3652 

Looks like several of us had our eye in the sky last night!!

PS Fuji PS:ISO100 F3.5 1/400sec  300mm hand held 

Konica Minolta DSLR: ISO100 F6.3 1/400sec  500mm hand held 

Hey Escape artist...I also was inspired by the beauty of the moon so I stopped by the side of the road Wenesday night on the way to dairy queen, and I got chewed up by these little no see em's we have here in florida. I have seen such unbelievable shots of the moon here on photographica and since I have never tried with my new camera, I decided it was time. Of corse the bugs biting me shotened my patience level, but this is what I got.

 full moon 

ps................Hhhhhhooooowwwwwllllll..............did you hear that?

So...this is my first/lame attempt at moon/night photography.

 Alone.

 Moon Shine.

 Glowing. 

*I know they're centered...I did that on purpose...