On The Last Day of Fall, A Red Shoulder Gave To Me

a chance to get some very unique images of textures. It was on my return trip out that I got to see him fly low and over the the tops of the tall prairie grasses. He was hunting, I am  sure, but do not  know what it was the he was hunting. A mouse, a rabbit, maybe? But, while the images are a bit darker of his face, the feather features and the backgrounds were good for posters.

I was on the DFW HD cam this morning  watching the sunrise. The thought hit me that the sunrise was more like a sunrise on some distant planet---it was really weird in a way, although pretty as could be. Then, this afternoon while I came up on the Red Shoulder sitting on a branch over the road just as pretty as  you please, I shot from the car, then parked and shot from the car again and then got out, walked under the tree, around the tree, crossed the road and shot back at this amazing bird. It was like, okay, I see you and I see your camera and its the holidays and go ahead an take some pictures. I have been seeing him more and more lately. He has also allowed more camera time without flying off. But, as I came back down the run, he took off on that flight over the tall grasses mentioned above. So, I walked down to the edge of the lake and was looking at the reflection in the water. It caused me to look up at the sky and the clouds were doing that strange kind of light as I had seen this morning on the DFW webcam.It's really weird to see how they have been so different and yet, that has duplicated it again within the same day. Strange. I observe a lot of things and have  for way to many years. These are somehow different and more strange. It's just hard to explain. I wish that I had gotten a screen shot of the sky this morning at DFW. Then, I could have compared the two in likeness.

Imagine the middle row of clouds being sunrise yellow and you have the DFW image this morning at sunrise.

Red Shoulder not phased that I was under the tree clicking away.

Cute! I was at a stop sign and saw this. It was just to good to pass up. Creative design and placement without doubt. It's another Red Shoulder, I do believe.

Delightful Day

North Texas was handed the most amazing fall day that I can remember for at least 10 years past today. It started out at 46 and headed up to the 60s,capping out at 67-degrees F. with winds light 6-14 mph from the east and northeast. It was mostly sunny late morning to late afternoon. Yesterday was sweater day and today was sweater day. While there was a light jacket in the car, it wasn't needed.
In fact, it was so perfect, focusing on my camera setting was not only a pleasant task, it was even fun. Somehow, my preset setting got out of whack and the past week or so has been making the adjustments needed to bring the focus back to where it needs to be. It's still off a bit, but not as bad as it was and hopefully,  it won't have to go in for repairs.

In the meanwhile, even with the focal points off a bit, some pretty neat pictures are still usable.They just can not be used for some applications where fine tuning is not only needed, but expected. So, we will see how things turn out. Making some progress is far better than sitting along side the road waiting for the road service type if you will make the association in that context..
Enjoy some old barns south a few miles. In one of the shots, you can see the Bank of America building top in the background. If you can still see downtown, it's still urban, folks!! Although, this is about as far south as one can get before it really becomes farmland and rural.

One of the buildings had the old asphalt shingle siding under the planks. Those shingles were popular in the 40s. 

This might have been an old equipment barn for tractors and plows, although I don't know that.

Look at the power poles. To the left you can see the top of Bank of Americas top 20 floors or so.The other 50 are below the horizon!