

Here are my blue photos for today’s theme at live every moment.
crayons
laundry
basketball
egg
And a macro of a beautiful camellia for blogging from bolivia’s macro friday.
I try to notice every day what the clouds look like around sunset time. I keep hoping I’ll get another opportunity like the one I had back in January when I took this photo at the lake in our neighborhood.
Yesterday evening I looked out the window and saw some interesting clouds so I hurried to the lake and this is what found.
iso 500, f/4.0, ss 1/2500
sooc (except for cropping)
clean edit (just adjusted the levels a bit and cloned out the two towers)
with the pw sunshine action applied at 60%
I think I like the one with the sunshine added, but Gary liked the original best.
Don’t you remember that commercial from when we were kids with the wise old owl and the tootsie roll pop? I bought Mason this t-shirt yesterday and he agreed to a quick before school photo shoot. So my “L” word is “licks”. Now I really wish I had a tootsie roll pop!
We’ve had a colder than normal winter in south Louisiana with way too many nights with temps below freezing. But in the last week, the weather has been pretty close to perfect. We have lovely springs and falls here and the winters aren’t too bad either. It’s the summers that are brutal, but for now we’re enjoying this fabulous weather! We had cousins in town for the weekend and the kids had a great time playing in the backyard at grammy and papa’s house.
We spent a gorgeous afternoon last weekend out in Montpelier where my father in law, Kirby, has some land. While we were there we planted two pear trees and a persimmon to add to the few fruit trees we already have. We all love it out there. This time we brought Maisy and she loved it too!
G cut some mistletoe out of one of the old pear trees.
Alec and Mason helped plant the new trees.
Of course, Alec had to take a break to ride his dirt bike.
I hope we get some yummy pears to eat this fall!
Our tiny little orchard has a grand total of seven trees. Is that enough to call it an orchard?