A subtle misty morning, as the sun is moving further South the light changes, and there was frost all the way down on the steps:) No more bathrobe photography, just a hoodie and slippers! Soon the slippers will be retired for snow boots! Ha! The lake water is still fairly warm, with no rain, the levels are down about 8″ from where they normally cover the rocks…we’ll see if that changes in the next few days with rain on the way.
I always do a few different angles when I photograph the canoe and sunrise, I take less photos now, stop, look. I hate going through dozens of the same shots, waste of time and energy! Less is more!
As the mists clear sometimes you can see the frost on the tops of the trees across the lake. That nip is in the air, but so warm so far this Fall. No waterfalls or running streams, that quiet is a bit unnerving, the harbinger of change.
Sometimes Rocket comes and sits on my chest before dawn…twenty three pounds of solid orange cat is hard on your bladder but oh the starting light outside the window! I thanked him and promised him some treatos, as soon as I came back! The traitor that I was, running off before crunchie snacks were served! Ha! Sometimes the light changes so quickly you only have a few moments to capture it!
I guess this is my favourite view…I have to lie down on the small dock that juts out with the ladder, hang over the edge, try to get the horizon straight without dipping the camera into the water…hold my breath…and presto! I wiggle the dock as I lie there like a contortionist, so have to wait for the ripples to subside sometimes!
Sometimes the colours get better, sometimes they fade away, you never know! I use a vertical panorama to catch the whole lake end, this was 6 shots. I stitch them together in Image Composite Editor, a free Microsoft program. I’ve had better luck with that than photoshop stitch. Both Groot and Rocket were rewarded when I came back inside. Groot waits on the other side of the sliding glass door, meowing loudly at times, I can hear him outside…just to be sure he gets his snacks;) Gamora and Mike were still asleep:)
We’ve had a bevy of beautiful full moons this last bit. I avoid the cheesy names like Harvest and Beaver…it’s a full moon folks;) Ha! Please don’t get me going about super moons…0_0…Neil deGrasse Tyson said it best 16″ pizza, versus a 17″ pizza folks…:)
So while I get some beautiful light at sunrise, we have a our share of beautiful sunsets and moonrises as well!
These photos were a challenge as apparently one of the cats had sneezed on my Tamron 150-600 lens that lives on my camera, and yes, I’m a bad photographer, I hardly ever use the lens cap so I can grab the camera quickly and go, otherwise I am like “Hey, why is it so dark! Why I can’t see anything!”…lens cap on…duh!!! So yes, there were a myriad of cat snot marks all over these…thank goodness for photoshop;) My camera lives on the dinner table next to my computer:)
…and sometimes, the sun hits the clouds in the east as it is going down and gives us a beautiful surprise!
Well isn’t that special…said in the best Church lady voice;)..or could it be Satan? Hahahahaha!
Right now, well, I have a choice of birds, fungi clinging to trees, sunrises, the canoe and the occasional visitor to the yard:) I did raindrops on milkweed seeds this morning when we had a short break in the drizzle, it’s time to get creative;) Waiting for our first good frost now!
There is always something! This evening late an otter popped up in front of the dock, too dark to photograph, maybe he’ll be back! The mergansers have started to gather and fish in a pack, I’ll keep my eye out for them, and a swan pair with one cygnet was on the far side of the lake, could it be our baby? Maybe. I’ll keep my eyes open! In the meantime I’ll keep training the blue jays and look for some Winter props to keep their seed gathering interesting…do you think they hate me? Ha!
I think maybe I’ll make like Rocket and simply wedge myself between the kitchen wall, and the heater when things get snowy and cold! Saludos amigos! Anyone have any really weird garden gnomes out there for rent? You can have them back in the Spring! Asking for the blue jays and Winter training;)
