Showing the Flag

When the snow fell, I decided that I should get to town hall if ever I were to make a dent in my project for the year. With snow on the roof and hardly anywhere else on the building, I was definitely looking upward through the camera. In post edit, I converted all of the photos to a non-contrasty monochrome to suit the snowy day, but I left the flag colourized.

I like 1, 3 and 5 best and it that order.

My resolve is to return with my telephoto lens after another snowfall to try to pick out details on the roof. We shall see what we shall see.

Snow on the Roofs

Last Monday was great for snow photos in the park, but there is a log cabin very near the park on the opposite side of the road.

I took this picture last February.

I knew that I had a good one already, so I didn't photograph the house again on this day. But there is also a log shed next to the house. I walked around until I could get fairly clear shots from the road.

This next and final photo is of an old mansion, downtown near town hall. It's not proximate or similar to the previous log buildings, but it has a long history too.

More from the Park

Make hay while the sun shines

Make pics while the snow lies

That famous quote will point the way for this blog for another day or three. Today, I take you back to the park, and my theme for this post is Frames. In each photo, I tried to frame an object with surrounding objects. In this case, I am framing trees with other trees, or attempting to. I think the first and third photos work the best, with the third being my favourite, perhaps because I find strong vertical lines appealing for some reason. 

As she often does, Sue snapped a photo of me taking a photo. It may I may possibly have been taking the above photo, for I was pointing toward the general area.

I will have more snow posts to come, but we will be out of the park for those, even if we don't manage to hit it metaphorically outta da park.

About the Woodlands I Will Go

Almost immediately after writing yesterday's post, I was proven wrong about two things. I don't know why it took so long. :)

Unexpectedly, the snow guy showed up toute de suite to clear the driveway. They don't guarantee to clear us out if the snowfall is less than 2"/5cm. But sometimes, they come by anyway, so I wasn't totally shocked.

The other thing was about Sha being back to work and Jonathan being back to school. Both things were true, but I was soon getting messages to see if I might be able to pick up JJ, for he had tossed his cookies, as some might say. This stomach issue seems to be his weak spot, and this was not the first time or even the second time that I been asked to help the boy like this. He once heaved away between the school door and the car. I'm glad he didn't wait a minute longer.

Poor Jonathan, but it was good for me, for when I passed the park, I saw that it would be a good day to make photos, for the snow was on the trees. I've seen it better than this, but this was pretty darn good.

I hurried home and told Sue about the photo opportunity that lay waiting for us. Synchronisticly (not a word, apparently) and serendipitously, her theme for the week is White, so the opportunity suited both of us. Here are three of mine; there will be more in the days to come, but these will suffice for the nonce. The photos reflect the dull but yet soft and pretty day that it was.

 

It's Thataway ===>>

Two Monday photos that you've seen before in different form. The first was rotated on its side; the second was converted to b&w and stands out better this way.

We had a light snowfall overnight but too light for the driveway contractor to come. It's got to be about 2 inches for them to bother. We'll go push it around later this morning. It's light, so it won't be difficult.

Sha and JJ were hit pretty hard by the latest virus. After about a week, with much time off from work for Sha and school for JJ, I think they are just about back to normal. Somehow, Danica escaped, and we did too by avoiding contact and cancelling our planned family dinner last week.

Shauna at Two-ish

I posted many pictures of Shauna around her first Christmas and birthday in 1973, so I know they were taken at the end of 1973. In that batch of negatives, there were others when she was somewhat older, looking more like a little girl rather than a baby. From the look of her and the location of the photos and from when I recall about experimenting with developing b&w, I deduce that this was 1974, a little before her second birthday. However, I could be wrong; they could have been taken in 1975, after her second birthday.

A reminder that these are from recent scans of old b&w negatives. As before, they required editing in modern software to get them looking as good as they do because the original scans were quite rough..

I did go the extra mile in the above photo by replacing the background from that very busy wallpaper. I don't know why we thought at the time that wallpaper would make a good background, but we didn't know much then. Like Scrooge, now we know that we didn't know much then, and we're not too confident about now either.

I will have a few more to post someday, but not many because I didn't shoot b&w often or for very long, and I soon reverted back to colour slide film.

A memory just popped up in my head from those days. Sometimes, we would be invited out after church on Sunday evenings. We could plop Shauna under the table or wherever, and she would play, quietly and amuse herself until late. I remember one woman saying that she had never seen anything like this behaviour: good as gold with no fussing or whinin,g well past her usual bedtime.

Can in Cali

 I really wasn't planning on posting again today, but . . .