zany days

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I feel a little zany today so lets just have a chaotic mix of photos. Yeah? Cool!

I used the fisheye lens on these shots. The neat thing about this lens is I was almost touching the dandelions yet there’s great focus and you are seeing 180 degrees. There were a whole field of dandelions, pretty really.

I used the macro lens for this Marsh Marigold. I’m not very fond of regular marigolds but I love the Marsh Marigolds. They are everywhere in Wisconsin in the spring. Well marshy areas mostly.

I know I already told you about the blankets of Trillium that can be found in the spring. I took this shot in May, I’m kinda missing them.

Remember how I told you that I take shots of birds, any shot I can get, when I see them, then I try for better shots. Well, I wasn’t sure what this one was but I got a few photos.

None of them very good, really. But they were good enough that now I know I saw a Yellow-rumped Warbler. I haven’t seen any since, and believe me I have been looking. I took these photos in April, just kept hoping I would get some better ones to share.

The red-winged blackbirds can be kinda pretty. I don’t normally bother with snapping them but I liked the look of this one.

There were several Great Egrets in the area, but this is the closest I could get. Again, I will keep trying.

I loved how these two Brown-headed Cowbirds have similar poses.

A Baltimore Oriole sips nectar from the flower blossoms.

Although the Cedar Waxwing lives in Wisconsin year-round, this was my first time seeing one. I’ve always wanted to see one, just wish I had more time to spend in this park and admire them.

Jack-in-the-pulpit is always fun to find but easy to overlook. It’s fairly short and usually mixed in with other wildflowers.

Hope you enjoyed the hodge podge which is the chaos of my life!

Enjoying the Journey

We shot a wedding while we were in Missouri. It was a small, outdoor wedding and it rained like crazy right before, but we got lucky and the clouds cleared away just in time. Then in typical Missouri fashion it was hot and muggy. Above you see the father of the bride and the bride’s daughter.

After shooting Sara and Michael’s wedding (you can see more photos here) we enjoyed the drive back to my parents’. It was a good two hour drive but very scenic.

We found these miniature-people-house birdhouses in a Monett park. Trivia - My son Gage was born in Monett with the help of a midwife but when he was little he liked to tell people he was born in “the airplane park”, this is the same park.

If I were a bird I would want to live in this one. Although all of them have great details.

Stay away from these guys, they hurt bunches! I remember, as a child I scooped a wasp out of my swimming pool not knowing they could even sting when they’re dead. Ow!

We saw a lot of daisies but we also saw a bunch of these tiny versions. The blooms are about the size of a dime, maybe smaller.

We didn’t do much hiking because, well see that path towards the right side of the photo? Uh, yeah, I actually found a weed taller than me! These daisy mixes were about hip high.

But we did take some time to smell some flowers.

We kept seeing purple flowers along the ditches and at first we thought they were water irises but once we got close we saw they were Spiderwort. I just love the whimsy ways of that plant.

One place we stopped I kept hearing splashing in the water and finally got the courage to look. Apparently, even the cows thought it was a hot day.