Here is my latest photo roundup, but the picture I’d hope to start with will not appear.
I thought I was in the 1960s film Blowup. I spent ages (well, at least 30 minutes) zooming in on a photo I took of what I’m pretty sure was a bluebird. When I finally found the bird in the background of woodland twigs and leaves, he was so blurry I couldn’t use the picture to confirm the identification. So no photo of a bluebird for this post.
I have two other photos from walking in the town forest, one of Fairyland Pond and one of trail markers, including the Emerson-Thoreau Amble.
Next is my youngest granddaughter chasing a squirrel up a tree on Easter (love the shot my husband got). My oldest granddaughter is captured mid-Easter-egg hunt. The robin stayed stock-still for his portrait that afternoon.
The window fish was painted by my younger grandson at his Montessori nursery school. As usual, I couldn’t resist shooting shadows.
Now, about the shadows on brick. For nearly three months, until the moment when the sun shone through the alley (like the sun that shone on the keyhole to Smaug’s back door in The Hobbit), I thought the window in the renovated building was smack up against a wall and there was nothing to see there. What a lovely surprise!
I’m wrapping up today’s collection with a license plate from the Pawnee Nation. Since the Pawnee Nation is in Oklahoma and the car was in Providence, I’m intrigued and hope to learn more. Here’s the tribe’s website.
My kitten has the same look on her face when the squirrel runs up a tree! But the kitten actually goes part way up after it! These are nice, mellow photos.
The good thing about our ubiquitous smartphones is being able to get pictures all the time. And I love that you can crop and zoom in afterward — even tho bluebirds may turn into unreadable blobs.