Day 338

We headed to dinner as the sun was setting. I was hoping to get some photos of the sunset, but we arrived as the sunset was ending.

Day 262

Kit and I spent today in Northern, Va, driving back to Richmond, VA and in Richmond, VA.

We had gone to a Korean spa late last night. This was the sky when we got back to the apartment building. Note that you can see a star.

After some much needed rest, we went to the Asian grocery for treats. This was a tree outside the store.

I rode in the back on the way to the apartment, so I took some photos of the weeds along the shoulder of 7 Corners.

This is a panoramic of the sky by a cute shop called Thingamajigs.

After returning home and on the way to dinner with John and Alex, I found this beetle laying on the parking lot. There are lots of beetles here during the Summer, but you rarely see them. This one is deceased. 

Day 160

Today, I went out at dusk to see how much light my camera would pick up without the full moon showing.

These are trees above our path. I love the painterly quality of these photos.

These are trees at the end of the culdesac. If you look closely in the full size photo (click on this photo to see the bigger one), you can see a star.

Better photo with said star.

The Rhododendron is lit by the path light. I like the contrast and shadows of this.

Day 128

We went to the West End to go to Hobby Lobby, which is new to our area. After shopping, we went to eat lunch and ice cream.

This median strip had yellow daffodil and pansies at the end.

There were birch trees along the sidewalks.

As we were driving back to the Southside, I took a photo of the river from the bridge we crossed. 

The sun was glowing nicely through these trees.

The sun was setting behind us.

Earlier in the day, my sweet husband bought me a new camera, a Canon Power Shot. I saved using it for the evening, as I knew there was going to be a large full moon, known as a "Super Moon". My old camera isn't capable of taking clear photos of the moon, easily. This camera is.

This is from my balcony. It took a few tries, but I got the camera to focus nicely where the branches right in front of the moon showed up. These branches were far away from the house. I'm impressed with the power and clarity of this camera.

The camera has a "hand held twilight" setting. It rapidly takes 6 photos in low light and then make one clearer shot. This prevents the blurring that taking night photos without a tripod, can create.

This is from the parking lot. I love how powerful the camera is. It picked up stars too!

Day 112

Today, I woke up to the North Star still shining in the sky. I photographed it while the sun rose and it faded into the light blue sky.

Later in the day, I took a few photos of leaves sprouting from the ground. I'm hoping these have flowers soon.

Day 110

Today, I woke to a crescent moon and The North Star still showing. I decided I wanted to watch them until they faded into the morning sky. This started at about 5:30am and lasted until about 7am.

I managed to get John to go on errands with me. I was the passenger, so took photos out of the window, while he drove.

This is a tree with power lines. I like how part of the photo is blurred and part is not.

There are train tracks that run beside our house. This is the section we cross over a lot, to get to other places.

I took some random photos, by just focusing and clicking. I wasn't looking at the view screen. I like how this one has the sun and a color bubble, with the tall trees.

This is another random one. I don't know what caused that bright area on the bottom left. The top right is the sun.