Autumn in St. Mary's 2

Backlighting

Charlotte Hall Veterans Home Gazebo

Lake in Mechanicsville

                    

Photos from driving around beautiful St. Mary's County, MD

 

It’s All About the Light

Glow

Southern Maryland Balloon Festival

I promised more photos of the Balloon Festival from Spider Hall Farm in Prince Frederick.  I just can't resist all those colors!

     You can just make out the balloon on the ground that you could walk into!

     Inside a balloon.

      My reflective clip on sunglasses looked interesting!

    Tethered rides

Petting zoo calf

      Free climbing wall

     Musician friends: Don Stapleson

     Jennifer Cooper

     The glow

     The Fireworks

     A flower?

Glowing Snowy Sunset

While dealing with several minor illnesses in the last two weeks, it's been challenging to take any photos at all.  The house windows are coated with bits of snow debris, creating blurry photos, but I occasionally stuck the camera out the door in the late afternoon to catch some interesting light.

It is obvious that these two photos were taken on 2 different days, before and after the snow began to melt.

Red Cardinals

One of my most popular prints and Holiday cards uses a photo of a cardinal in snow taken in January of 2010.  So, each time we have a snow fall during the day, I take my camera out, hoping to get another great shot of a red cardinal.  I finally got a shot with a nice glow after the snow storm this week, even though this time you can't see the ice crystals on his face. 

Cardinal After Snow

I liked this one too, but it doesn't have the extra glow.

Here is the cardinal in Snow that is popular as a Holiday card and as a print taken in 2010.  The first and last photos are available for sale on Zazzle.com.