Flying V

Flying V by Andy Roth on 500px

Photo #33
I told you they would be back. Maybe they are trying to spell out a message. What starts with LV? Maybe they are using Roman numerals to say 55, but why? Obscure Back to the Future Reference? Lets go with that. Meanwhile, I'll tell you a secret. The sky was not this color. I totally cheated and added a graduated filter in Lightroom. I try to avoid doing stuff like that, but sometimes the picture just needs it. This post dedicated to Hoops

Flying L

Flying L by Andy Roth on 500px

Photo #32
My mother was scared of geese. Or maybe it was chickens. One or both of those attacked her when she was a child, and she never really got over it. Despite this, I spent most of my life geese-agnostic. That is until we moved to this house, which has some walking trails nearby. These trails go by some small lakes. You may have seen these in some of the pictures I've posted. When the geese are around, these trails tend to have a nice layer of geese scat.

This makes me like them less.

Anyway, I do still like geese in the air, as long as they are not directly over me. On this morning's walk, many geese were flying by in various directions. I don't know where they were going since it is the middle of winter, and they should just be staying in The South. Maybe they are Canadian geese and is this is their South, eh? Point is, the geese flew by, I took their picture, and it became Photo 32. A short while later some more geese (or maybe the same ones?) flew by, and I took their picture, too. If you don't believe me, wait until the next post.

Day 128 - Little Wing - 18 Apr 2011

Solar lights are cool. Like fireflies and all glow in the dark stuff, they are magic to me. Maybe that is why we are starting to accumulate a collection of solar lights around the heron feeder. I started out trying to take a picture of the waterfall (which you can see in the picture if you use your imagination) then this bird caught my eye.

Day 113 - Over the Water - 3 Apr 2011

In our backyard we have a small heron feeder that just this year has attracted one of these crazy long legged bird like creatures. This may be that heron, but this is not our backyard (unfortunately). This a few miles away at a place with the on-the-nose name of LilyPons. We were there to buy some supplies for our heron feeder. They also sell heron food, but we still have 10 left so did not get any on this trip.

Day 30 - No Stones To Chase Them Away - 10 Jan 2011

If you believe Sting, then birds on your roof is a symbol of forthcoming death (see liner notes for Lazarus Heart). I hope he was just being ironic, otherwise I would not want to be the guy who lives across the street. Something made every big black ominous bird in the zip code pay a visit to his roof. Just to be safe, I should probably get back those DVD's he borrowed.