Here is an interesting experiment with auto-exposure. These photos were shot from the same place, but by aiming the camera either up or down, I got completely different images. Above, I aimed at the sky to show how the clouds ended in the north, but the focus is on the dried weeds in the foreground. It really captures the foggy wet dreary winter day.

For this one I aimed down at the top of an old fencepost covered with lichens, and picked up the rich colors of the shrubbery in the hedgerow, but the sky is overexposed and washed out. I love both of these!

SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012
Sorry - no photo today, as I spent most of the day catching up with almost two weeks work of blog posts and photos. But I am all caught up now, so should be back to a regular schedule for a while!

If you are on Facebook, you can see more photos of the trip here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3439495795376.2152945.1509973820&type=3. Hopefully the link will work?

FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012

 The sun lightened the clouds enough to brighten the pussy willows on the willow in my garden.

THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012

 We went to visit the puppies at Barb's house - 9 Shiloh Shepard pups, 7 weeks old. So stinking cute!!!

 After the initial madness, they all crashed.

 They can sleep in the strangest positions!

The mom, Sunni.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012

 These are really from Thursday, but I didn't get any photos on Wed, so here we go! Suze, Brenda and I went out to breakfast and had lovely mochas, as well as very yummy food!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012

 Back to gray and wet and cold. Over at Suze's house, she is packing up everything to ship back home. We're all sad to see the house be sold, but at least it has finally sold. The new owner is absolutely thrilled to be there, so that really helped Suze feel good about it.

One lone apple left on her apple tree.