Our World - Blooming

Clematis bud

 Clematis bloom

 Rose

Hydrangea bud

Header Challenge - Bottles

My header was our wine "cellar" - not a large selection, but we don't drink much alcohol. The alcohol beverage industry seems to be sticking with glass bottles.

We do not get a lot of stuff in glass bottles any more. Milk bottles have been replaced by plastic or cardboard "cartons". The only glass bottle above is one Marianne bought.

 

Asian products still use glass.

 

Medicine seldom comes in glass bottles now; this paprika is in glass, but a lot of spices are now in plastic. The two old glass bottles were probably medicines. The name on the old bottle is "Chamberlain's".

 

Our World - More color

Sky Watch - Through the clouds

 Now you see it

 Now you don't

 Maybe

 Visible again

Header Challenge - Group Portrait

Last year one of our nieces asked me to take pictures for her wedding and I agreed. She wanted some posed photos of the wedding party. She also wanted a group portrait of all of the brides family. Since she is the youngest of seven; and aunts, uncles, cousins were in attendance; that made for a large group and was my header. 

At our oldest granddaughter's wedding, I also took some group portraits. Above, the bride and her brothers posing for the official photographer. And below her son, held by her Dad and two of the brothers.

A self portrait of the two of us in 2005

Two group portraits taken at the Frederick fair.

And finally, a group making a self protrait in 2004.

Our World - Outside work

 

Over the past few days, wheat was harvested on the field behind us. The cut wheat was raked into rows for the baler, which then wrapped the bales. 

All bails were soon moved to the edge of the field.

 

And I did my own "harvesting" the grass, though my machine was smaller and my bags smaller. The grass has been deposited at the site where it becomes mulch.

Sky Watch - Birds and clouds

Turkey Vulture

 

Where's the feeder?

 

Lonely bird at sunset

 

Evening clouds (above as the camera saw them)

(below auto color corrected with PhotoShop)