~Winter Watercolors~

Northeast missouri outdoor wednesday

 Monday (yesterday) evening, we received more snow.  The sun was shining, this morning, when I took these photos of an evergreen, beside our back porch.

I used the Canon Rebel Xti, set on Raw and on P or Program Mode, with Manual Focus enabled.

The photos were edited in Photoscape, using Pictorialization, in Water Painting mode to create the effect, shown below. Pictorialization is found under the Filter option.

I altered each of the photos, in this post, using Photoscape.

Even though many of us are tired of winter and the weather it brings, it’s here with us, at least another 5 weeks.  Therefore, I decided to make the best of it, playing in the snow.

I suppose I should have been baking Valentine cupcakes or finishing the living room rearrange, but when I saw the sun, I just had to take a few outdoor photos.

This photo was altered, using the Watercolor Pencil effect, in Photoscape Pictorialization.

  

Colored Pencil effect, Pictorialization in Photoscape.

 I’ll get those cupcakes baked tomorrow and finish the furniture moving, while visiting, during Outdoor Wednesday, at Susan’s.

~Wolf Moon~

Full Wolf Moon, Sunday morning,

January 31, 2010

Edited in Photoscape

Canon Rebel XTI  1/200

f/6.3

Focal Length: 200.0mm  ISO:400

The photos were taken from the powder room window, facing west, just before sunrise.

No editing, other than size.

Canon Rebel XTI  1/125s

f/6.3

Focal Length: 84.0mm ISO: 400

No editing was done to this photo, other than cropping, to center moon.

Canon Rebel XTI 1/200s

f/7.1

Focal Length 200.0mm  ISO: 400

The same photo, as the one above, after saturation and white balance application, in Photoscape.

All the photos were done using the P setting on the dial.

This is my first contribution to Outdoor Wednesday, in quite awhile.  I hope to participate more, as the weather improves.

Stop by Susan’s each week, for Outdoor Wednesday.

I’m also linking this post to Claudia’s (Dipity Road Blog) Friday Finding Beauty.

~Outdoor Christmas~

 The fountain at Branson Landing, presents a light, fire, water and music show, every hour on the hour, throughout the day, until about 10 PM.  Our balcony, at the Hilton Promenade overlooks the fountain.

Move your camera, as you snap the photo, to get this fun effect.  These photos are of the lights around the fountain.

  Santa’s house, under the big blue and silver tree.

 

  

Washington, on the Missouri River

I took this photo from the Hwy 47 bridge, at Washington, Missouri.  The bridge is under repairs.  I took several photos of the river, while we waited to complete our crossing, the morning we drove to Branson.

This is my contribution for Outdoor Wednesday, at Susan’s A Southern Daydreamer.

~Water Water Everywhere~

And not a drop to drink!!

November morning, Grand Glaize Arm, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, as seen from our deck.

We are spending a few days at the lake, this beautiful first week of November.

Imagine our surprise and somewhat dismay, Monday afternoon when, upon our arrival, we rounded the corner and saw the scene, shown in the photos below.

A little waterline mishap!

The water line repair guys worked until a little after 5 PM, Monday evening.  They left, with a promise to return, bright and early, this morning.

J went up the hill, to fetch a pail of…..oh that’s another story!

J went up the hill, this morning, and shot the “earth moving” photos.  The guys are working away.  We hope to have water, soon.

We usually keep bottled water. This time, no water.  J met new neighbors, while walking Molly, yesterday.  They generously gave him a gallon of drinking water.  We will definitely stock up, when we make our trip to town, later today.

 What a sight to see!!

As of 10:00 AM, Tuesday morning, we have water! 

This humble post is my contribution for Susan’s Outdoor Wednesday.

 

~Sunday Drive~

Rural Missouri

To celebrate the return of Ol’ Sol, we decided to drive through the country, Sunday afternoon.

The trees are showing off quite a bit of color.

We passed several riverside fields that had been covered in water, during the recent rain storms.  A few soy bean fields were ruined by the high water.

I found foxtails and milkweed pods to photograph alongside the roads.

 Stop by Susan’s A Southern Daydreamer for more Sunday Drives and other outdoor posts, each Wednesday.  

 

Remember the first photo, in the previous post, that shows hedge and hedge apples?  I asked J about the gate post above.  He told me this is a hedge post, made from the tree that produces hedge apples. By the way, cows like to eat hedge apples.