It has been difficult to make time for hiking recently, but I managed to get out Thursday night. There are a lot of wildflowers in bloom as well as the prickly pear cactus. There was even a small amount of water in the creek at the Balcones Canyonlands wildlife refuge. The cactus were in bloom… Read More Wildflower Bloom at the Refuge
Saturday it rained almost all day, so I thought there might be a lot more water in the river where I hike occasionally. So Sunday afternoon, it was sunny and I went down for a hike. The trail was a little muddy but it wasn’t too bad. Just as I started my hiking I came… Read More Sunset Hike at the River
I have heard it said that every photo should tell a story. I also follow a blog called Nuggets of Gold where the author often post a picture from Pinterest and writes a story about it. So, inspired by these things I am going to try to write a short story about a photo that… Read More The Dark River Path
I decided to try making myself take a photo every day for a week. I didn’t really go anywhere special, but I just wanted to keep busy shooting pictures and trying to make the best of my surroundings. I shot these photos on my morning and evening walks around the neighborhood and parks. So there… Read More A Photo per Day for a Week
This is a bird post. I don’t usually post about birds as I am not a bird photographer and I don’t have the equipment to be much of a bird photographer, but I chanced to catch a red-tailed hawk flying low over the park in the late afternoon sun and I got what I think… Read More One For The Birds
Not much hiking and photography for me this week. The weather has been unusually harsh here, in fact in the 20 winters I have spent in the Austin area I have not seen weather like this here before. But, I still like to go for walks so I bundled up and went for a walk… Read More A Walk in the Park
People hate the year 2020. It has been much reviled and its end celebrated. Perhaps this is justified as many tragedies occurred through out the year. But, it wasn’t a bad year for my photography hobby. In fact, I took some of the pictures that I am most happy with last year. At the dawn… Read More 2020 Wasn’t All Bad
I made reservations to go hike with the kids at Colorado Bend State Park several days ago, but as luck would have it Wednesday turned out to be a cold rainy day. The kids did not have any interest in going out and hiking in the rain, but I really wanted to get out of… Read More Photography in the Rain
Merry Christmas from Leander Texas. It is not much of a town but it’s where I live. The building behind the Christmas tree is where I pay my water bill. HDR merge taken at twilight.
I went out hiking at Balcones Canyonlands for lack of anything better to do. There was a low puffy cloud cover that I thought might photograph well with all of the texture, especially in the late afternoon and I needed a good hike anyway. So up the trail I went. There aren’t many flowers out… Read More Cloudy Hike
