Author: kmilyun

What I Share or Don’t

Years ago I would take a picture and run to my computer excited to share it with my readers and on flickr. I take many photos that never make it to the blog and I always forget to upload my photos to flickr now. When I do post it is not usually my favorite or what I might consider the best shot of the batch, sometimes I even put up some losers and photos that really do not excite me but are OK. I started a little album where I print out and hoard my favorites photos without sharing them and I am not really sure why I started doing it? Umm?

I spend a lot of time just sitting and waiting. I always have a goal in my mind. Sometimes it is to catch a little bird (LB -for you Donna) that is hopping around in the weeds. Seriously, some of those LB are a pain in arse to capture. Other times I have no goal in mind I just walk about photographing what catches my attention. I am always ever so hopeful to get the National Geographic Cover shot as my friend Chuck calls it – the one of a life time – hope I recognize if/when one of those photos happens 🙂 .

I think I have started doing something very similar with the blogging. I do not share much anymore and I can not say that I get excited about posting much anymore. Quite honestly the stuff I really want to discus would probably come off wrong, be misunderstood or my opinion more than likely would be considered unkind to some. So I tuck my thoughts away and stifle the urge. Not sure where I was heading with this one so I will end it here.

A few from yesterdays trip to the refuge (and yeah I know I can take photos without having to go somewhere – snark).

This next bunch of photos from last night are not photographically great but I cropped them so you can see the carnage. Do not look at them if the feeding habits in nature gross you out or if you really have a great love for bull frogs.

Smoke and Dust

Cleaning Up

I have been slowely trying to clean up my reader. I always used an extention that was added to firefox and avoided the google one because when I use it I somehow end up accidentally deleting someone from some magic list. I like making folders for different subjects. One for MS, photography, general, etc. . …

For some reason with all the changes going on some blogs are now listed twice. Once in my folders and once where google decided they go under blogs you are following.  Logic says move the folks from blogs your following into a folder and the blog would only show once. But nope.  Now there are two of them. Umm, if I delete the wrong one then I am no longer following them at all. Oh this is so confusing when it really should not be.  Add to this that deleting someone that I also follow in G+ and sometimes but not always if I remove them from the reader it removes them from the G+ augh!!!

So, if you get deleted let me know and I will add you back – I claim opps.

My friend Mikey drove us around the Sutter Buttes last week and I played around with the camera a little bit.  Mostly we just looked at all the scenery and enjoyed the drive. All but the road shoot were taken from the car window as we drove around.

The Landscape

I wish I could capture all the seasonal changes and how the landscape changes and do it justice.

Mates

Sandhill Cranes mate for life.

Shot at sunset from afar.