Photography: Mountain Reflections (Post #2)

Here are more photos from our time in the mountains. We spent a lovely time in Snowmass, Colorado a year ago and it's good to remember those wonderful days - full day hikes, evening walks, taking the kids to the pool in afternoon, and the kids constant desire to watch Food Network while making dinner.…

Photography: Mountain Reflections (Post #1)

For a year or so now, we have gone on vacation in the mountains. We are not your average tourists - you see, we prefer to go to California in the winter and we go to the mountains in the summer. Winter in California can still sometimes be on the cooler side, but nothing like…

Photography: A New Garden, A New View (Post #2)

So here we are again, at the new gardens.  It was actually a very peaceful place to visit and though there were people around, you always seemed to have most of the garden to yourself.  We sat beneath a shade tree and ate lunch, while listening to the sound of songbirds hiding in the trees. …

Photography: Take a Walk With Me (Post #1)

Spring is seemingly here.  I smell it in the air.  I see it in the buds growing on the trees and the flowers beneath the rustle of last year's leaves upon the ground.  In some places, she may have already reared her head completely, but not on the Colorado prairie.  In the past week, it…

Photography: Mountain Wonders (Post #1)

Quite some time ago, we spent a week up in the mountains in Snowmass, Colorado.  We enjoyed hiking each and every day, often leaving early morning and returning by dinner time.  It was incredibly joyful for all of us and I can only imagine how amazing it would be to be as active all the…

Photography: Her Beauty Entrances Me Still (Part #1)

Quite some time ago, I told you we went up to the mountains in Snowmass, Colorado for a short long trip right before school started.  Sadly, it was the last time I have held my camera... but she is off to the camera store as we speak, so hopefully she will be returned to me…

The Less Traveled View

Last week's Photography Challenge at The Daily Post was: Experimental.  I think that is the gist of most of my photography... although I guess you could say it's really not that experimental compared to some.  I guess it is all in how we see things.  It is not so much that I seek to be…

Seeking the Rounded Edge

This week's photography challenge at The Daily Post is rounded.  In my photography, I don't think I ever seek a certain edge, whether rounded or straight.  Instead, I would like to believe I like to seek a story.  As a writer, I guess you could really not ever separate yourself from this... no matter the…

Photography: She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain (Post #2)

So today I have decided to delve back into some of the photos that I took while hiking in Snowmass, Colorado.  We had such a beautiful time there that we decided to put on hold our decision to hike in Aspen for another time.  There were so many trails and so much untouched beauty, it…

Photography: She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain (Post #1)

All of you know I went up into the mountains quite a few weeks ago and never shared even one photo.  It is a curious thing, but seriously I had taken so many photographs that I was afraid to go through and pick those I liked.  I've been dreading it... well, that and I've been…