The Great American Eclipse
April 8, 2024Before this great American solar eclipse approached, I had no expectations. Thankfully, I didn’t trust my memory to capture this special event with the help of a camera. I didn’t want to risk damaging my eyes by looking at the eclipse, but I knew I could get the feel for it being outside. I guessed that the eclipse would be at its peak at 3:16 PM where I was, but instead it actually peaked at 3:12 PM. The photograph below was shot at 3:13, which was a minute after the eclipse peaked. It will enlarge when clicked on. There is…
Buddies in Bloom
So this is what the outcome is when tiling images instead of using photo editing software to group the images as one large one. Doing a hobby such as creating photographs such as these is a lifetime practice that most…
Who Is Naughty or Nice
This holiday season goes safer with a list of who is naughty or nice! After all, we are at war and information is what we need. What better information than to know what social media to avoid and what ones…
A Day at the Park
God knew my need to find a place to have time completely alone. I couldn’t have imagined finding one on my journey to the Ashokan Reservoir just to see how many people would be walking there. I also couldn’t have…
Just Browsing Around
As the population increases in the area, it becomes increasingly challenging to find places to go where there are not a lot of people. Praise God for providing opportunities to just browse around and take pictures of whatever grabs the…
A Beautiful Bible
It’s only fitting a beautiful God deserves to have His Word bound in a beautiful Bible! This Journaling Bible was inexpensive, because the materials used to make it were cheap. That’s why the cover wore off in less than two…
Silly Service Dog
When a dog provides invisible services, sometimes visible ones come with the package! Take humor for instance. Unless a dog is allowed to develop its character, while it’s learning how to better serve its owner, it can’t be enjoyed to…
Invisible Services by Dogs
Service dogs may assist both PTSD and CPTSD conditions. They also help autistics and those who God blessed with the mind of an Asperger type. Generally speaking, the characteristics required for a service dog for such people are as described…
Twilight General Store
At 37 North Lake Road, Haines Falls in New York is the Twilight General Store. It’s road goes toward the North/South Lake Campground. We stopped there after our day inside the state’s land. The images showing the outside of the…
Cool August
It’s a strangely cool August this year, but no complaints here! The environment seems fine with how the summer is going too, except for some trees not liking how much rain comes sometimes! To travel the world and photograph it…
North South Lake Campground
It’s amazing what a day can bring, especially for someone who hasn’t been anywhere in many years! This would explain why the photographs may appear quite restricted in regard to variety. People are more challenging to photograph than nature, so…
See Some Summer
This summer things are happening! All of God’s creation reflects His glory! The spicebush swallowtail Papilio troilus caterpillar; a.k.a., the common black swallowtail butterfly, also known as the green-clouded butterfly, is seen both in its caterpillar form and in its…
Ashokan Reservior
All these photographs of the Ashokan Reservior are by my adorable artistic friend Ann. She can walk the walk, so permit her images to talk her talk! When the pictures began arriving to my phone from Ann’s, it wasn’t known…
May May Be Best
It’s shocking to me how much has changed in my life to cause me to not notice time disappeared for the usual activity I’ve been involved in. Returning to the reservoir, after having not been there for decades, was a…
Not So Funny February
Not every month of the year is full of good cheer. Some of them can be quite drab, especially February. When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. I do it in the form of photographs. If you think these shots…
Catskill Country
This is a gallery of photographs taken by my son using his cell phone. They begin around Woodstock and continue on to the Fleishmans area, with a mix of the New Paltz region upon flooding. Where do we go from…
Fall Falling Fast
Fall falls fast! Why can’t it last? Now it’s past. But, as they say, “Take a picture. It lasts longer.” So, I did and here they are… Before messing with October’s photographs, I thought it’d be great for the colors…
Walk in October
Take a walk in October. It smells good and doesn’t look too bad either, right? Normally, I don’t have my service man walking with me. On this day however, I’m blessed to have a carrier. My dog is too little…
To God Be the Glory
So many photos yet offline in spite of many blogs already containing many! Hobbies have a way of swallowing up every last bit of time left, but isn’t that what they’re for when the Holy Spirit wants to use it…
Before and After Siding
Rare is the house that has a lot of history before it receives siding for the first time. This is one of them. It waited 70 years for siding to be completed and the heating system installation 80% near finished.…
Spring Shots
I’m amazed over how well software technicians have developed the “bait and switch” skill! When blogging first started, it was a whole lot more enjoyable than what it has become! Control over how the finished publication will look has diminished…
Ice Storm
Freezing cold weather! Good day to thaw out the freezer. You didn’t think the power would stay on, did you?
Gloomy 2021 Winter
When did it begin getting so gloomy? I think it began before May of 2016. It really got dismal when 2020 started! That’s when the biggest scam got dumped upon the world! Even the weather tries to scream out warnings…
Coronavirus To a Recluse
I forgot to use my new favorite phrase, when I was asked about doing a short video saying “hello” to my church’s congregation during this season of social distancing brought to us by the coronavirus. The phrase is, “Good luck…
Welcome
Faith welcomes you to join her as she is leafing the net! If you’re wondering why she’s not writing this first post in first person mode, the answer is in the introduction. Just like a seed that’s planted without knowing…