Happy Monday! We recently visited the Flaming Gorge Recreation Area. It’s a huge reservoir in southern Wyoming and northern Utah. We stayed in a little town called Manila, Utah. It was fun to visit somewhere NEW. Certain areas were crowded, but it’s such a large reservoir that many places, especially up in the mountains (from where I took the above photo), were relatively quiet.
Maybe we’ll go again sometime and play in the water. There wasn’t a very big beach area, so those places were the most crowded. Although I’m not too sure we’ll return, because there are SO many other NEW places to explore!
Have a great day. I hope you learn or do something NEW today!
So, I’ve been disappointed lately that I haven’t been out shooting more. Life is busy. But today I decided to just go in my backyard and try something NEW! I was very inspired by the impressionistic look from a recent post at melinda anderson photography using the camera shake method. I thought her “Wildflower Impressions” photo was so beautiful. So I tried it. It’s rather FUN! What do you think?
Here is a “normal” shot of the daisies. AND, we finally got rid of the ugly plastic edging and put pavers on the sides of our garden path. So that is another NEW thing!
Lesson learned. Even when I’m busy…getting prepared for a son’s wedding, working long hours at the day job, preparing for our upcoming Europe trip, yardwork etc., I need to take the time and have fun with my camera. This only took a few minutes, and now I have an impressionist photo to enjoy. Thank you to Melinda Anderson for the inspiration!
Have a wonderful day! I hope you do or learn something NEW today!
Happy Monday! It’s been a while since I brain-dumped some miscellaneous NEW stuff, so here goes.
Miscellany #1: It was fun to see some wildlife on our hikes in Grand Tetons National Park. There were quite a few of these little guys running around! A grandpa pointed to one and asked his grandson if he thought that one was Alvin, Simon, or Theodore. I really doubt the little boy knew what his grandpa was talking about! Haha!
This guy wasn’t fazed at all by the attention he was getting!
Look very close. That’s a bear across the lake. I need a better zoom lens!!!
Thanks to Google, I believe this is a Western Tanager. Again…Santa, I need a zoom lens for Christmas! Haha!
AND, what do you think of this “wildlife”?!? He (or she) is livin’ the life!
Miscellany #2: What I’ve been reading lately. I’ve already hit my GoodReads 2023 Reading Challenge goal (my goal was 52 books, and I’m already at 62…). So I think for the last part of this year, I’ll make a goal to read a book from every genre that GoodReads list on its browse page. I figure that’s one way to read NEW and different material (I hope to learn LOTS of NEW stuff!). Here’s the genre list.
AND lastly, miscellany #3. I learned something NEW recently. I showed my friend at work my photo from the Tetons and she taught me that these yellow flowers that were everywhere are called Mule Ears. She had been to Colorado that same weekend and noticed a lot of them there too! Here’s more from our trip to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. I’m taking her word for it (so I hope she’s correct). It’ll be an easy name to remember (I hope).
That’s it for today’s NEW miscellaneous stuff. Have a great day and I hope you do or learn something NEW today!
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