Tag: photography

Adding An Item To The Bucket List

Seeing things with a different lens

We’ve been doing a lot of travel this Summer, mostly driving. Wandering down familiar roads and those not so familiar I’ve found my eye landing on old houses, old barns, and other old structures.

Some of these I’ve driven past many times before (like one pictured above). I’ve driven past it easily hundreds of times. Perhaps I’m just paying attention in a different way. Others are new to me.

Regardless, it makes me wonder what stories these structures contain. It’s also making me think that I might need to purchase a non-smartphone camera again and schedule some time to just travel and take some photos of these buildings and their stories.

So, I’m adding that to ye olde bucket list.

Fall Feelings and Cotton Candy Clouds

Changes

I think we’ve moved out of the summer heat for this year. Temperatures have cooled. Humidity and the haze from Canadian fires have been replaced with direr air and crystal blue clear skies. It feels like we’re moving into Fall.

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I’m not sure if it’s the real thing, or what some call Faux Fall. Either way I’ll take it.

Mornings are cool. Not quite crisp yet. Just cool. Midday temperatures are comfortable. And then the nights cool off again. We’ve experienced that in three different Midwest states on our travel recently.

The icing on the cake has been a steady stream of what my daughter used to call Cotton Candy Clouds.  They’ve been floating through the crystal blue skies constantly since Saturday, regardless of where we’ve been.

I’m just going to call it all pleasant. Yup. That’s the word. Pleasant.

Of course we’re bound to have a warmup again at some point before things change for good and we complain about missing Summer.