Frosty fotos and other autumn beauty

As much as I whine and complain about winter, I do find such beauty in all times of the year.  Well, unless it is winter in May, then I am just humorless about the whole thing.  I have been crazy busy lately and I revisited some of my pictures that were mostly unattended to for a while. But with my flagging energies today, I have been looking at them and finding some cool shots.

 Enjoy your Sunday, your extra hour of sleep day, your "oh wow it's only 11:30 day", as it rocks!  Even if you are sort of sickish.  And find your joy!

Sunday picture post

It was not the nicest weekend for taking pictures- the weather was pretty dreary and the sun did not even manage to make an appearance at all.  But that did not stop me from walking and photo-shooting! I am LOVING the camera on my new phone.  It is a wonderful thing.  Many of the pix on this post are from my iPhone.  A couple of these pix were not from this weekend!  But they are cool none the less!

Panoramic pic

One of the very first pix I took 

Until next time, be a joy giver!!

A bounty of (photo) riches

So, Lola thinks that I have not posted NEARLY enough pictures of her this year, so here is her loveliness surrounded by fall beauty.  She is slightly resentful of the lack of -ahem- companion that I promised her earlier this year, but I swear I have the crow mostly made.  I just didn't get to the cement! Sorry Lola, I will make a few more things over the winter and the concrete will be first thing in the spring......

Queen Lola 

Well, now that she is happy I can go on with my pictures.  See, Lola didn't get any companions that are actually in completed form, because as many of you know, I have been walking my buns off, literally and figuratively.  And as you know, I always have some sort of digital recording device along with me- camera- and I do take a lot of photos!  I have a bunch of pix that I haven't posted at all, and I have even more on my cameras, so the posting isn't even done for the day YET!!

I have a variety of landscape pix and a couple of artsy ones, where I was goofing around with some settings on the camera and focus and depth of field.  Enjoy the bounty!

Color experiment

Close focus

Medium focus

Distance focus

Nosy cat focus

Bark patterns

Favorite tree

Ridge of birch

Tamarack swamp

Just Perfect!

Red berries, white birch

Tangle of branches

Seedheads and cobwebs

Alma Potschke aster

Details

Still-life in orange

Sun bather

Long horn, full curl sheep

At the end of the tree tunnel

Breath taking evening

Frosty post

swirls

Amazing patterns

Criss-cross clouds

Favorite tree, different angle!

Deer path

Tucked away and almost forgotten

Framework

Perspective

There is the first round, the next should follow later. today or tonight.  I'm sick of sitting for now!  :)

Until next time, be a joy giver!