November POD

Well, now that Christmas is in 2 days, I figure it's best I get around to posting my pic of the day from November.

I was fortunate to have four days off for Thanksgiving so I took a little road trip around the North Texas area.

All photos are taken with my AE-1 on Kodak Portra film.

I drove out to see Mackie out in De Leon and I had to stop and take a photo of the golden waves of grain.  

On Thanksgiving day, I ate and then went on a photo walk in the nature preserve in Plano.

The fall colors were much more subtle then in the past few years but amazing just the same.

I went and had lunch with my friend Sam in Dallas and we went on a walk through the M Streets and looked at the houses.

I also took photos of the trees and clouds while on a Texas Safari with Mackie.

I got to have lunch with this beautiful lady!  We had a great time in downtown Plano catching up on life.  

I leave you with this image.  As my best friend said, "Jill, you've been making that face since you were a little girl."

Bemused and slightly amused.  Yup.  That sounds like me.

Yeah Buddy!

If you follow my photography, you must know by now that I loooovvvveeeeee texture!


















If I could eat this image.  I would.

Nom.  Nom.

Barb Wired

I covered the sky with barb wire lines
And left my heart beating on the other side.

Natural Landscapes

I went down to the Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center a few weeks ago to shoot for KUT.  

Here are some of my favorite images:

Happy Monday!

This past Friday I went for a walk around the neighborhood to photograph some of the plants that have been changing. The drought has done some really beautiful things to the foliage this year. That's one plus. =)

Hawk

Pic of the Week: This Too Shall Pass

I'm not going to lie...life changes have got me a bit down right now. Sometimes, it's really hard to cope with change. As much as I love it and I look forward to it, it is exhausting and can be overwhelming.

I feel like writing a poem. I know my poems aren't the best. I rarely take the time to sit down and actually work on one. They come out of my brain sporadically and very rarely do I develop them. Actually, that can transfer to all of my writing endeavors, including these blog posts. I definitely would like to be more disciplined in my writing but today is not the day I will start it.

Instead, I will leave you with this poem, spat out as we speak.

I've got these fragments

That float in my mind;

Parts of wholes that I can't describe.

I see them in the middle, or maybe it's the end;

Words and phrases I've yet to comprehend.

Eyes closed,

I try to see.

But they are gone,

Mere wisps of a scene.

Heart numb.

Mind dumb.

Next time, it will be best to let them be.

Texture

I had a love affair with texture recently.

It was a few weeks ago when the weather started changing.

I was going for an afternoon walk and it caught my eye.

I couldn't help it. I fell in love.

There's something about it's depth...

...and how it makes me think of onomatopoeia (crunch, crunch, crinkle).

I'm still not over it.

Pic of the Week: Fall Trees

If you know me at all, you know that I love trees.

I went up to Dallas this weekend and the leaves were just starting to change. I love it. I cannot wait to get up there next week during Thanksgiving to photograph them. Autumn is by far the best time in North Texas. I may be a bit biased, but really, with colors like this, how can anyone disagree?

Pepper

Jill grew this pepper.

She is a badass.

That is all.

Clouds

Tree Branch Stump

There's some depth in there for sure.