I just thought this was such a pretty photo. I made blackberry pancakes the other morning. So, so good! Love the fruits available in abundance during the summer. Makes everything special.
Just retuned from a quick little trip to Couer d'Alene, ID where we also visited Silverwood amusement park for the day. Had a great time, rode the After Shock rollercoaster, from which I barely survived. I am a roller coaster enthusiast. Never met one I didn't love and ride again. But this one...wow. You know when they have to delay your loading to clean 1) blood, then 2) bile, off the ride that it's a doozy. Suffice it to say that was my first, and last, ride on the After Shock. It was a quick trip, but we did get to drive a bit down Lake Coeur d'Alene right at sunset. So beautiful, I want to visit again and just sit by the water for a long time.
This just makes me smile. If I had a trailer, I wouldn't have one of those posters where you fill in the states you've visited. I'd have a little mobile design trailer and fill in the letters I'd drawn. Which makes me laugh too, because I'm pretty sure over the course of my 43 years I have actually drawn all the letters, not just some of them as illustrated here. This is up in both my Society6 shop and at SmugMug. The tee version is below:
Five minutes flat. That's all it took to walk around the "short block." We have an alley, so if we only go to the alley entrance and back around to our house it takes about 5 minutes to walk. I had read an interesting article that reminded me I haven't used my telephoto lens in a long time and I never used it as a macro lens (lets you focus close to the subject.) So I took the walk around the short block with the telephoto lens and in 5 minutes I saw some pretty gorgeous sights. There wasn't even any "good light" and it was really breezy so my hopes weren't high. In those 5 minutes I saw Feesbot, my neighbor's cat, sitting in another neighbor's driveway, another neighbor's blackberry bush (where most of the berries were red instead, but I found a plump dark one and popped it in my mouth...sweet) and yet another neighbor's apricot tree. Around the corner I spied a whole group of cooing pigeons under roof eaves and a stand of deadhead flower seed pods that had an awesome silhouette. Oh, and my own petunias in the hanging basket I had watered earlier. 5 minutes and at least a half dozen beautiful summer shots. Totally worth it!
