Showing posts with label Birdhouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birdhouse. Show all posts

Monday, June 11, 2012

Enchanting Photo

Just thought I'd share this with you.  I was on my way up the back steps earlier right before dusk when I turned around for some reason, and looked over the fence to my mother and father-in-law's former home.  There stood this birdhouse in the perfect setting beckoning me to take a photo.  I took a shot from the deck, but that didn't seem like it was quite close enough.  I don't know;  something just wasn't right.  I walked next door to get a closer shot.  By now, dusk was in its final stage;  I put the camera on a special low-light setting, and this is what I got.  My father-in-law built this lovely birdhouse.  When I snapped the photo, I thought about painting the scene with watercolors in the future.  To my surprise, the photo turned out like a watercolor.  I'm not sure how I did it.  It may have been the low-light setting, or my hands may have been a little shaky.  Personally, I think something special was going on out there tonight.  Has anyone had a similar experience in the world of photography?

Enchanting Birdhouse

Monday, March 5, 2012

Perennial Garden

BELOVED BIRDHOUSE AND PERENNIAL GARDEN
This is one of my perennial gardens from the past.  The daylilies are Mount Herman Giant (gold) and Point of View (red).  This little garden also contained Black-Eyed Susans, Blue Black Salvia, Cannas, a pink Knock Out rose and Lily of the Nile.  It was a joy while I had it until some juvenile delinquent squirrels decided to make a salad out of most of it (roots included).  Thank God they didn't have an appetite for daylilies!