Showing posts with label mississippi river bridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mississippi river bridge. Show all posts

Thursday, October 10, 2013

For the Love of October

It's certainly been a while hasn't it?
I am currently blaming the lack of blog-o-sphere action on the fact that I actually thought I was forever locked out of my account due to google owning every email service on the planet.  Let's just say things got rather complicated and I now have to log in with an address that includes % signs and words that don't make sense...(oh technology)
In case you've been in a box for the last few weeks, I am here to inform you that it is gloriously, and most officially AUTUMN.
Let's take a look, shall we?


It smelled like fall today.  That crispy, comforting smell of fallen leaves beginning their transition back into dirt.  I'm tellin' you - I love it! (although my unenthused face in this picture would beg to differ...)

What's another thing I love might you ask?  Why it's this absurdly bat-winged-flowy shirt that I plucked from a heaping clothes dumpster pile at the end of last year!
(Just look at how it immediately improves my otherwise hopeless attempts at modern dance!)
And looking stoic.  I'm telling you, if you ever need to look stoic, nothing will do it like loopy-shoulder-cut-outs.
Also, there were many lovely trees with many gnarly roots that were just begging for me to creepily smash my face of them.  I mean, it's almost Halloween right?
But enough of me...let's get back to this autumn I'm talking about!


These next two pictures were taken from opposite sides of the same bridge.  One side is the more metropolis-view, the other a much more natural one.  It's quite amazing really.

So happy continued autumn and October! 
Take all the paths that intrigue you, and don't forget to crunch around in some leaves!

Saturday, December 15, 2012

I'm Dreaming of...

But will we get one back in good ol' ioway?
After a bit of encouragement, the weather decided to give us a real run for our money last weekend.  10+ glorious inches (as I have previously boasted) of white, fluffy, sparkle-encrusted snow.
It's lasted, but has been severely diminished by a stream of constant rain today..
HOWEVER,
Right after the mini-blizzard, we went out with cameras as any self-respecting citizen would do in attempt to capture the beauty of what lay before us.  (Also attempting not to freeze our shutter-button fingers off).  The lighting was absolutely perfect, and I took way too many pictures of the bridge.  Now I'm stuck with about seven pictures, and no clue which ones I should keep, or deem the 'top of the crop'
So dear internet viewers, I would like to extend this invitation to help me choose which bridge pic to put the gold star upon.  
I also might add to the credit of natural sunlight + snow that these photos are 100% unedited in any way possible.  Way to go sunlight, you rock!


Like I said...too many pictures.
Got any suggestions?  Any home remedies for lack of snow?  Any witchcraft for lack of snow?  Any songs for lack of snow?  Any snow?