This was my Project 365 photo from October 15. Sometimes I was really scrambling for subjects for the daily picture.This little lady was right outside my front door.

Field near my house on a fall morning. My first experiment with processing other than the most basic functions. Still working my way through the backlog!

Ok, I admit that I was at a lovely zoo filled with exotic animals and I was shooting photos of…plants.

Sam was born at the Oregon Zoo last summer. There were huge crowds lining up to see him. I didn’t get there until October when he was already two months old, but still so cute.

One nice thing about going through my photo backlog is that I’m reminded of where I took the various shots. This one is from a Cyclocross bike race last fall. These were really fun. There are obstacles where the riders have to dismount and carry their bikes. With some of the barriers, the more daring riders will keep going and jump over. The one pictured here is called a runup. It was way too steep for anyone to ride up it so all the racers had to wheel or carry their bikes.

I took a zillion photos of poor quality because I was just using my point and shoot. There were a lot of other photographers there with more experience and better equipment. I had serious lens envy. Still, it was fun to experiment with a different type of photography.

Stalk

Artichoke

Mushrooms

I hadn’t realized how long it had been since I posted here. I’ve still been reading everyone’s entries but haven’t been taking many photos to post. Aaaaand I’ve been avoiding going through my huge backlog of photos from Project365.

I really need to edit a few every week and get caught up. I’m tired of having that task hanging over my head. So here’s the first photo from my new commitment to finishing with the Project365 stuff! It’s from October 1.

I recently saw some of James Castle’s work online and was really struck by his collages. The library didn’t have any books about him. I just happened to be watching Ovation while folding laundry and on the first commercial break, they advertised a show about James Castle that’s on tomorrow!

Also, I’ve been delving into folk music in the past week or so and when I turned to Ovation, they were showing a documentary about Harry Smith’s folk music anthology.

It’s such a great channel. Occasionally there will be a week when they seem to show nothing but ballet or live performances of bands that don’t interest me, but most of the time their programming turns out to be exactly what I want to watch. I couldn’t get How to Draw a Bunny, a documentary about Ray Johnson, from the library. He’s another artist whose work I really like. A month or two later, the movie was on Ovation. Ovation TV, where have you been all my life?

I spent a little time annoying these guys this morning in the school field next to my house.

Wordpress has been squeezing my pictures because I usually post them wider than the template I’m using. Must look into that.

These are from last week, one of those walks when I didn’t feel like taking the camera but ended up glad I did. I love moss and I’m still looking for ways to get the best photos of it. It’s like a miniature world and I want to find a way in.

There’s a farmhouse around the corner that I keep going back to. It’s not very well kept. There are others in the neighborhood that have been restored and are more charming. This one looks lived in. The paint is worn, the wide front lawn is dotted with old fruit trees, there’s a pumphouse behind the garage, and the sheds look like they’ve been there forever.

I’d taken several pictures of this shed before, though not from this angle.

But once I trespassed in their yard I realized there was another shed looking pretty spooky through the fog.

There are a few more shots on Flickr.