Sunday Stills: Signs of Fall

This weeks Sunday Stills Challenge was a Signs of Fall.

I live in Minnesota.  The trees are at their peak color this weekend. 

Aspens..or Populus deltoides..or Popples…or piss Popples because they are worthless for firewood. The wood just sits in a wood stove and water  boils out the end of the wood.  Pretty in the evening light!

Red Oak.. not sure which one.

Looking through the understory of Jack Pine and Norway Pine to the forest beyond filled with Popples and Oaks.

This is my shadow way hello to October..and goodbye to September.  I missed the Shadows of Ourselves Challenge.  I missed the Music Challenge..I will work on that one!   I have closed the Museum for the winter..so hopefully I will be able to spend more time doing what I want to..like take photographs.  Have a good week everyone:)

Sunday Stills: Faces

The Sunday Stills Challenge this week was faces.  I took some photos of my great nieces back in August with the new camera.

This is the beautiful Olivia or Livey, she started school this past week.

This is Brooke she looks so much like her mother!  She is all alone at home whilst her sisters are at school..until January when the new baby arrives.  Then I am afraid this one will have to give up her spot as the baby of the family.

 

This is Miss Aubrey, she is my great niece that lives next door.  I wanted to show off her wonderful smile.  Aubrey was born with a double cleft lip and palate.  She has endured many surgeries.  She is a trooper. She has endured more pain than a small child should.  She is always ready to smile for me and my camera as long as I show her the beautiful photo!

Have a good week everyone:)

Sunday Stills : Rays of Sunshine

The Sunday Stills Challenge this week was Rays of Sunshine.

This was sunset one evening last week.

This is some kind of Helianthus a flower in the Asteracea Family.  The petals radiate from the center in a spoke like fashion and are called ray flowers.  The ones in the center are called disk flowers.

So this flower being yellow and all has rays..rays of sunshine!  Have a good week everyone:)