Old Buildings

   I thought I was posting these to this album but did it in my other.  Trying out the new features.  Not sure I like them, the pictures are fuzzy and you lose alot of the shot but it does give some neat effects.  I am going to do a flower entry if our wind ever dies down.  I am showing these both ways.


        


 

Flowers For Andy, and a story line........

  Ok Andy, I suppose flowers weren't what you had in mind, but the scenery is pretty tame right now.  So here are some flowers and at the end a pictures.  Put you wonderful imagination in action and tell me where the ladder is going.

       I absolutely love the flower pictured above.  Perfect in every way with the colors.  The deer don't eat it either which places it way up there in my book.

     Isn't the color wonderful in this flower.  If everyone would stop the violence and smell this flower........................

Tatered beauties below

Guess the flower!

                Ok Andy, here is the picture.  I like your quirky sense of humor.  Give me a story line for the picture below.  A caption.  Where does the ladder go?  Make it good.

 

Buds and Birds

  It seemed a long time coming in Iowa this year.  Spring, however, is here.

More Deer

  I  know, lots of them but the deer just seem to pose.

Monday Morning Scavenger hunt

Photo Scavenger Hunt #107 will be due on Sunday, April 1, at 11:00 PM EST.

Our subject this week will be:  anything SPRING!!

   So out in the yard I went, looking for spring.  I saw my peonies coming up.

        The leaves on my pear tree starting to bud out.

Actual leaves on the lilac bush

And my favorite squirrel begging for a treat.

The woodpecker was peaking at me

And we all agreed.......It's spring.

Feeding the birds

      Junco's  

              

         The mating dance

Way to many pictures.

  Call me lazy, its true.  I took a ton of pictures at the falls yesterday.  The water was roaring.  So different then when we were there 3 weeks ago.  I know I should just pick a few to show but am strapped for time so will just warn you.  Lots of pictures, lots of them similar.

   Sioux Falls granite is apparent on many of downtown buildings.  They are the same colors as the rocks in the falls.  What is weird about the falls is they foam this time of the year.  The water looks like you have dumped soap in it and foam is flying all over.  You can see it in some of the pictures.  The water also smells, sulfur dioxide I think. 

    I was very disturbed to see a ton of trash in the water and on the banks.  That really really ticks me off.  Pigs that can't pick up their garbage and dump it all over so the rest of us have to look at it.  Hundreds of pop bottles, water bottles, Styrofoam cups, makes me sick.  I see parents walking their children and toss their bottle on the ground.  Sometimes right by a garbage can. What kind of example are they setting? 

                    

    I am very verbal about it when I see it.  I mean, we have a much bigger problem with the trash people are dumping all over then global warming.  I would much rather see them enforcing those laws then the new smoking laws.  Where are our priorities.  I guess since the government can't find a way to tax us for it they haven't paid it much attention.  Anyway, off my soap box.  Enjoy the pictures and look again at the frozen ones, quite a difference.