Cormorant

A few photos from 6/1's storms (on my FB page)

Weather

 

My area did not have any serious weather, except some vivid lightning. The central and western part of the state had some tornadoes, with serious damage and four deaths.

Bluebird

Chipmunk

Moon

If you follow the moon phases you'll know I didn't take this yesterday.

Two Lips

I just finished merging my 2010 "Wayne's Project" with this blog, so don't panic if your reader says I have +/-290 new entries (I don't know if it will or not). Rest assured, this is only my second new one today!

Bu-bu-bu Bird Bird. The bird is the Word...

...if I knew, I would have titled this entry with the name of the bird...Jason (my "bird expert")?

Jezebel

"Black" Squirrel

Finally!

For some reason, Blogger was down for quite awhile. Glad it is back up - been waiting to post a few pictures.

Sparrow

Happy Mothers Day!

To my Mom, and to all moms. Have a wonderful day!

Speedy Red Car

Made this as part of a photo assignment, using slow shutter speed to express motion.

f16; 1/13 sec; 100mm; .3 exposure compensation (only because I forgot to change it back from a previous photo. oops, but didn't hurt anything.)

How I Quit Smoking and Lived (so far)

Today is Cinco de Mayo. It is also the 7th anniversary of the day I quit smoking.I didn't quit because it was Cinco de Mayo though - that's just silly. I quit when I quit and for the next couple years I struggled to remember the anniversary and then it finally dawned on me it was cinco de mayo, so now i can always remember. It took a few more years before I could remember the year I quit. 2004. It's nice to no longer have to go through old emails to figure it out.

So to quit, it was a piece of cake, or maybe not. I didn't know it at the time but I believe my life was on the line. I didn't get the message from the waking dream I had earlier - more on that later.

I got a real nasty chest cold that just would not go away, no matter what! I couldn't even start to talk without going into a horrible coughing fit, so bad I couldn't even get a breath in between coughs. One day I realized if I went a ½-hour to an hour (if I could manage it) without a cigarette, things improved a little. Hmm.