My Lunchtime Escape

Lunch.  Lunch time.  Outside.  Escape.  Sun, hot and cold normally will not stop me.  Rain...it's been rare this year thankfully...for my lunch escapes...not so much for earth's bounties.

The office is in a bad part of town.  Not somewhere you want to be in the evenings.  Right behind the office, the scenery changes.  It goes from 'not so nice' to 'nice and full of character...safe...peaceful....revitalizing'.

It saves me...day in and day out until some longer term escape can be found.
Soon.
Soon.

Walk with me.  Enjoy the view.  It's fall...peaking.  The leaves are colorful...yet already beginning to fall.  Creating piles.  Creating child like trails to shuffle your feet in.  Pumpkins. Haystacks. Ghosts, witches and spiders and scarecrows dapple the yards.  Creating...smiles....laughter...childhood memories.

Escape.
      Escape.

           Escape.

Forest Floors

There is just something so mystical to me about the forest floor. Particularly this time of the year when Mother Nature lays a new carpet filled with a multitude of colors from her 'painters palette'. This one just takes my breathe away...but then I am very easily pleased and impressed. What can I say.

Another example of a perspective change.
Adding a bit of texture to it myself...creating an art piece in itself.

(Shot w/ Nikon D90, 1/25sec, f5.6, Tamron 28 - 300)

Yellow Yellow

I live at the top of this hill...behind that white fence. Why is it exactly, do you think, I struggle with the thought of selling? This. This confirms for me...just one more time...that fall continues to be my most favorite time of the year.





(Taken with my wide angle which I don't play with enough. Took several shots of this and hope to play with HDR on them. Soon)

Pumpkin Patch

I was able to spend some quality time with my niece and her daughter and other members of my family this past weekend...in Ohio...for fall. I didn't get to see all the fall color as I had hoped...and no covered bridges...but there was plenty else to wet my photography pallete with. My niece sent me a picture of this last year...so it was, of course, on the top of my list to discover this year. I think every town should have one of these. It's just pretty cool.

Riverside CX Race

They had this CX Race in my 'backyard' this weekend. I had to watch it. Brought back memories of when my boys raced. It was really awesome when they crossed by the river reflecting the colors of fall. I'm pretty sure I saw each and everyone of them slow down in awe as they peddled by.





(I used the sports mode to get some of these shots...if not to actually take the picture but atleast to meter them to see what to play around with in the manual mode.)

Drive with Me

Take a ride with me...through Fall in Wisconsin. It just doesn't get much better than this.





PS...sunroofs are great for sticking your head out the top to capture the shot!!! What can I say.