cooling off

 away from it   all

I was driving home and knew that the sky must have looked beautiful... it was that crazy orangeish hue that surrounds everything and makes you feel like you are in a dream world. I kept trying to look at the clouds, but decided that paying attention to the road was probably a better idea. When I pulled into my court I finally got a view of the clouds and was in awe. I sped to my house, flew up the driveway, and ran inside for my camera. When the clouds look like this, you only have moments to catch it. I didn't pay much attention to taking great shots, I just wanted to capture the moment. I still wish I caught them earlier, since the colors change so much, and I would have loved to have pictures of all the phases of the colors.

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I went with my daughter on a field trip to the Pumpkin Patch Farm. Kinda like a petting zoo with pick your own pumpkins. Here's a few shots I took while on a tour of the place.

Poor sad puppy Saddle up Taking Flight You Lookin at Me Very Colorful Duck Caged Barn View Black Swan Chapel at Dusk Pond Reflection

I live in Pennsylvania.
These are some pictures I took around my area of the world.

I love blue skies with big, fluffy white clouds.  I get lost in my thoughts while sitting outside staring at them.Clouds
We have lots of dogwood trees in our area of the world.Dogwood Leaves
I was married in this building.fh706 This is a closer view of the building.FH721
More from my area of the world:
fwheel Smokestacks
Less busy areas in my town:Water Potatoes ,  Pumpkin Pile , Pumpkin1015 ,  Patch at Dusk
And, my babies....
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These are the Italian Alps, the Dolomites. They speak more German than Italian here, as the area used to be part of Austria.
the Schlern at dusk - again - once more - and then at dawn!
mountain meadow barn - fight the urge to yodel - a fence for what? - one more barn.
The rocks on the barn roofs are to melt the snow quicker.

Yet more from my vacation, and perfect for this sunset kind of theme. I rather like how some of these turned out.

• Which is better? Rowing from Afar or the cropped version. I like the cropped one better. My only complaint is the amount of noise in the picture. That of irritates me. I had the ISO setting at 400, which might be the problem. I should have dropped it down to 200, and went for a slower shutter speed, hell I did have the tripod (I think).
• Rowing in the sunlight.
• This one was luck. I was trying to set this up right, but wound up fussing with the camera at the key moment, so the sky is not the right color.
• Rowing in the dusk