The Stark Beauty Tree picture with effects....

Yesterday evening after taking this picture..

I came in and played around with it on Coral Paint Shop and came up with these:

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Josie

~~Stark Beauty~~

On the way  to town early yesterday morning, I took this:

Maybe it's the coldness of the bare tree or the colorful sky behind it that makes it so stark and beautiful at the same time.  

Just one more thing that show's God's talented hand!!

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Camera Model : Canon Rebel T1I
F-Stop : f/5.6
Exposure Time : 1/25 sec.
ISO Speed : ISO-200
Focal Length : 50mm.
White Balance : Shade
Zoom Lens Used : 18-55mm.
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Josie

What I dream about this time of year....

It's the dead of winter right now, 33 degrees, north wind whipping outside and patches of snow from last night's little storm.  And right now all I want to see is the smallest blade of green grass, maybe a tiny bud on the elm tree by the front gate, just something that gives me the slightest hope that we haven't been moved to Alaska in the middle of the night.  But, nothing, no green grass, no tiny bud on the elm tree, nothing at all!  So, my only hope is to go through my pictures and find ones like this:

Ahhhh, beautiful!  Let's see another picture of GREEN

Middle of May I think it was, an evening thunder storm was rollin' across the prairie.  Speaking of thunder storms,

June thunder heads, but ya know what really caught my eye?  This...

 

See the T and the S?  You get it don't ya?  T S stands for Thunder Storm! 

Spring means fires on the prairie--controlled fires that is.

And BIG smoke!

And after the fire, the bluestem starts to grow and in July and August, it can get up to 11 feet tall!

And yes, I'm even ready to see grasshoppers again!

This was George, we never figured out was kind of grasshopper George was, so he remains the Mystery Yellow Grasshopper named George! ;) 

And with the coming of Spring, comes Ol' Tom out strutting around looking for a girlfriend....he was none too successful on this go-round!

And in Spring these little critters start popping up every where...

Come  May or June, the Whippoorwills come back and sing their song up and down the creek...

Once it get's good and hot, Spiderman loves his summer baths 

Can't you just see his joy?  He loves it!!

Oh, and one more picture that is Summer out and out,

Mmmmmmm, a Summer Supper!:)

So there, I'm done reminiscing about those beautiful, warm, sunshiney(sorry, I'm making up words!!) days as my fishing pole stands by my tackle box in the barn, my favorite pair of flip-flops lay in the floor of my closet as I set and dream about warm summer days!  Oh boy, am I getting dramatic!!hahaha

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Josie

Okay so it's been a few days since I've put up a blog---or weeks,  okay it's been a month!  But I have been taking lots and lots of pictures!!
My dad has 100+ 2 year old buffalo that he's taking care of through the winter months by our house, so I've been going with him to take pictures.  After the snow we had Thursday night, me and dad went out to put out hay and feed them.

And then the ones that like to stay by the house.....

There's lots more to come!  And yes, I'll try to put them on here this month!hahaha

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Josie