Due to slow traffic here, Post a pic we've never seen...

[alkaline9]

I'll go first! One of my cats (named waynegretzky) found this paper bag I dropped on the floor to be a good resting place. I admit I was inspired to post some cat pics after all the cat entries in the b/w contest.





OK, now its your turn... if you're as bored as I am in the photo group today, post a pic we've never seen before :-) It'll give us bored cube rats something to comment on!

[priller]

1. I've been taking lots of shots of downtown Austin lately

And also inspired by the roller coaster pic that was posted here about a month ago, I started a series of shots in a similar vein. Here are a few:

[alkaline9]

2. very nice!

I'm assuming the one building is a church, but what's the other building?

[priller]

4. That's the Frost Bank Tower

It's just a few years old, but it's quickly become the signature building of the Austin skyline. It's a great design, kind of a retro-futuristic vibe, sleek but with lots of wonderful detail.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Rear view mirror

[alkaline9]

5. cooool!!

Maybe one of these months we could have a "rear-view mirror" contest theme... but then again, if one didn't have a car it would be unfair...lol

The snow and clouds looks like a painting... amazing!

[Blue_In_AK]

6. I was happy it came out this clear

since we were traveling about 55 mph down the highway.

[F.Gordon]

7. Still in love

Took these on V-Day night so they are very "fresh".





And... one more lens baby macro from last night. Even "freshierist". :crazy:

[alkaline9]

8. how sweet!

Who is the couple?

...And the baby macro shot reminds me of the carnivorous plant photos (for their color) that LeftCoast posted a while back. Tell me if I'm crazy, but it kinda looks like a 5-fingered, hairy skeleton hand???

[F.Gordon]

10. Thanks. Can't say "who"

Asked me to take a few V-Day snaps and I did.

Same here. Macro reminded me of a 5-fingered, hairy skeleton hand too.

[intheflow]

9. I love that 2nd kitty post!

That could've been a contender in the contest. Someday we'll have to have a cat/domestic pet photo contest.

My shots are a series I took at the Smithsonian Museum of Modern Art which I visited while in DC last September for the anti-war march. The basement has a restaurant with a kind of skylight/waterfall, and I was enthralled with the contrast between the water and the blue flowers.

This first shot is straight, "real time". The water is frozen in time and uninteresting, imo.


The second shot, I slowed down the motion, but a Suit walked in front of the camera as it snapped!


The third time I got the shot... although I must say it looked far more interesting in real life than this photo would lead you to think.


In the end, the second shot is by far my favorite. I don't know why I like it, but for some reason it seems Orwellian to me, and therefore fitting in today's politcal climate.
:shrug:

[Boo_Radley]

11. k. Two from London

Edit: Oops. I meant to post this as a reply to the first message.

[alkaline9]

14. yet again you make me jealous I've never been to Europe!

The 1st image is cool... any story/location behind that one?

I really like the 2nd one though... green grass, wonderful sky, and I love how only a few (seemingly random) windows reflect the light. Not to mention the odd design of that building!

[Boo_Radley]

18. London Tower

The first one is from inside the London Tower (the mideval castle) looking out toward the Tower Bridge in the background (that's the bridge everyone calls the London Bridge, though that's not it's name).

The second is from the other side of the Thames, just north (I think) of the Tower Bridge, facing across the river, slightly away from the bridge.

[alkaline9]

13. the motion blurred suit sure does add character!

...and for some reason the green of the plant looks greener in the 2nd one than the 3rd?!?

I would love to see what that 1st shot would have looked like with a little longer shutter... get the effect of water motion blur... who knows, maybe it would have made the shot worse?

[CC]

84. These are pretty

though have to say, the suit gave that pic an abstract feel that is really neat.

[CC]

12. Took these yesterday.

First time ever in the snow with commentary. Poor little girl stayed on my shoulder for a good hour after we came in.


You put me down on this weird cold stuff? How could you?


Hey its soft enough to dig into and hide.


If I didn't have this bright leash on I could hide better.


Brrrrrr that is cold. Get it off me.


If I lay here and look miserable enough will you please stop taking pictures and pick me up.


Screw that, I'm cold and can run up your leg faster than you can take my picture.

[alkaline9]

16. adorable!

The expression on the first one is priceless! I like the 4th one too... anytime you catch an animal in motion like that its quite fascinating!

So, be honest, was she digging to hide, or frantically trying to get away from the cold white stuff??

[CC]

28. I think she was doing both.

She did not like the cold wet stuff. She is deaf so she didn't jump under the snow every time a car went by or a dog barked. The hearing ferrets that went out had a much more traumatic experience since they heard the dogs, cars and all. It has curbed the race to get out of the door for now. I'm sure they will soon be back to racing us for the door.

[Immad2]

65. Hee hee hee hee, that's the funniest looking kitty that I've ever seen

but boy, that's one pretty cute ferret!:evilgrin:

[Immad2]

15. Kitty Thread? Did someone say Kitty Thread? Uh-Oh, here comes Trouble...

Pogo T. Trouble - that is!


Where ever Pogo shows up there is ALWAYS trouble to follow.
Notice the, "Who, me? I didn't do anything," look.

[alkaline9]

17. haha! I'm familiar with THAT look!

...right before my cat runs off knowing she did something wrong lol.

If I had to guess from the photo, I'd say the look was relative to.. "no, I wasn't just drinking your tea/coffee"

Is that tiny white patch the only non-black spot? Very pretty kitty!

[Immad2]

64. Yup - thats the only non- black spot on her. She also plays in paper bags,

boxes and anything new brought into the house. You have one cutie there in waynegretzky - oops - maybe I should say "very handsome" kitty. :blush:

[NV Whino]

21. Did someone say trouble?

Here's Boston. Middle name trouble.

[alkaline9]

37. wow, look at those eyes!

Is that a side effect of light in the shot or are Boston's eyes really that amber? How'd you come up with that name btw??

[NV Whino]

53. I sometimes call him headlights

if that anwers the eyes question.

Full name Boston Blackie. Boston for short. Damit-get-off-you're-cutting-off-my-circulation for long.

[Immad2]

66. What a beauty! The eyes look very close to Pogo's.

[Mr. McD]

19. Somewere north of Hilo, HI Jan 26, 2006

[alkaline9]

20. Gorgeous! Yet another place on my list to travel to...

Hawaii must be full of such amazing natural beauty just ripe for photographing. An old roomy of mine lives in HI and told me anytime I wanna come visit.. too bad airfare (from NJ) is so expensive.

Have you been there many times? Were you just walking through the woods when you came across this pretty place?

[Mr. McD]

24. There are a lot of waterfalls in the area.

We were checking them out. There had been about 9 inches of rain over the last 24 hr. so there was plenty of water. before I been there 5 times now. We have property there and plan to retire there. There is normally over 100 inches of rain a year around Hilo.

[NV Whino]

22. Daffodil

This was taken a couple of days before the temperature dropped 50 degrees and weird white sutff started falling from the sky.

[alkaline9]

38. pretty flower!

I like how it kind of glows through the flower from the background light. I think everyone has been on a macro kick ever since the January contest :-) ....but I never get tired of these kinds of photos!!!

[NV Whino]

23. Some more photos

I went out to shoot bridges for the absence of color contest, but none really stood up to b&w. I like this one in color, though. Zinfandel Lane bridge 1913.

[alkaline9]

39. wow!

How's that bridge holding up? Almost 100 years young? There's so much to see... the mossy hill, the slight waterfall, the intricate brickwork of that wonderful bridge, the droopy gray branches! Delightful! Too bad the wires are where they are or you could even take a wider angle shot and include the sky.. but I think you got the best possible angle here.

Now for (what I think is) the better photo.. while I'm not 100% sure what the subject matter is, I LOVEEE the yellow/green contrasting with the faded wood wired poles and the mountains in the background. Now a guess, is this a place where they grow something necessary to make wine? Did you consider this photo for the b/w contest??

Thanks for sharing, these are both wonderful!

[NV Whino]

44. Thanks for the comments.

There is an older bridge on Pope Street. It had a date on it of 1897. (Not quite as photogenic, though. Particularly after all the debris hanging off it from the floods.) The bridges are holding up really well, except that the Pope Street bridge, being as old as it is, is very narrow. Ergo, lots of scrape marks as SUVs pass in the night... or day, as the case may be.

The trellis system is for the grape vines. The mustard is the winter/spring cover crop. January through March in the Napa Valley is usually fabulous. Fields and fields of yellow.

Right now, however, it is snowing. This is two days after high 70 and low 80 degree temps. It's beginning to stick so I'b better get the camera out.

[alkaline9]

50. I'll have to visit Napa Valley during the winter next year...

...last February my g/f and I traveled to AZ, CA, and NV but we were too busy driving, gambling, and seeing the Grand Canyon (not as good as advertised in my eyes) to head north in CA. Needless to say, we totally fell in love with California, and want to make plans to go back.. I think we'll wander a little further north next year.

[NV Whino]

54. If you head in my direction, let me know

I live on the mountain on the east side of St. Helena. Winter or early spring is a good time to come. Still lots to do--the wineries don't close, and we have the Mustard Festival, which includes tastings (of mustard and other things), photo contest, art exhibit, and best of all, it's easy to get lodging and into restaurants. Be prepared to spend money, though. It ain't cheap here.

[Boo_Radley]

73. I really like that first one.

The color is great, and it has a low cieling and a high floor, so the perspective makes you feel kind of squished in there. And the fat vines on the crosses have a strange religious overtone.

[intheflow]

116. OK, that mustard growing in the vineyards

is now my desktop image. Awesome shot. Congrats! That's only the second time I've chosen a photo for my desktop that's not my own! :hi:

The other shot was from Blue In AK. Oddly enough, it had similar coloring, though it was of aspens turning last autumn.

[GOPFighter]

25. Street Musician - Paris

[alkaline9]

40. that's one heck of an instrument!

I really like the lion head design! Interesting light in this shot too... none on the wall behind the musician, but lots on his hair and the stone walkway.

Was the music as entertaining as the photo? First time to Paris? I have yet to go, but I'm so anxious to see all of Europe. I'm gonna be a typical tourist.. snapping photos every 5 feet :-)

[Boo_Radley]

72. Out of curiosity

Is that in the Montmartre area, near the Basilique du Sacré Coeur?

[GOPFighter]

76. Yup, you nailed it.

You recognized the musician? <chuckle> Montmartre is a beautiful section of Paris but in the summer it's where all the "artists" and street musicians hang out hoping to snare some tourist euros.

[Boo_Radley]

77. Yep

My older brother jumped into my shot when he was giving the guy a tip the year before last. It was more the sidewalk, fence, instrument and building that I remembered, though.

[GOPFighter]

87. That guy is almost as popular as Paris...

...Hilton!

[regnaD kciN]

26. Here's the second 35mm photo I ever took...

...about a month shy of thirty years ago:



Minolta SR-T200, 50mm, 1/125 sec, unknown f-stop, Agfachrome 64

[Blue_In_AK]

27. Wow...

Thirty years ago I think I had an Instamatic. :rofl:

[regnaD kciN]

33. Note that I said...

...a month shy of thirty years ago. Exactly thirty years ago, I had an Instamatic, too. ;-)

[alkaline9]

41. great capture!

What is that? It looks like a bird figure, but one can never be sure. Whatever it is, the photo does it justice. I love this silhouette style photo, and I think the reflecting light on the right side of the thing the bird(?) is mounted on really adds to the effect.

Out of curiosity, if this was your 2nd 35mm photo what was your 1st? How many HAVE you taken?

[regnaD kciN]

70. To answer your questions...

What is that? It looks like a bird figure, but one can never be sure. Whatever it is, the photo does it justice. I love this silhouette style photo, and I think the reflecting light on the right side of the thing the bird(?) is mounted on really adds to the effect.

It's the top of the lamppost at my family's house in Dover, Massachusetts. As with many houses in New England, the lamp is topped with a small (American) eagle.

Out of curiosity, if this was your 2nd 35mm photo what was your 1st?

The first, taken a few seconds before this one, was a shot of the sky, with the neighbor's house (the one in the background of the shot I posted above) seen in silhouette. Not bad, but not much of a center of visual interest. I had just gotten home from the camera shop, and was basically in a "take pictures of everything I can think of" mode.

How many HAVE you taken?

Good question. I currently have two large binders filled with slide holders, and another filled with negative sheets (both B&W and color). A few sheets of slides are from the Instamatic I owned previously, but most are 35mm. I'm just starting to scan everything, and expect it to take me months if not years.

In terms of digital shots, I've got 4,172 images catalogued in Photoshop Elements, although a few of those are "alternate edits" of the same photo.

[Bonhomme Richard]

29. A couple of the shots I was waiting for.

Came back today

Barnacles


Flemish Coil


Winter Beach

[alkaline9]

42. I'm sensing a theme in your photos ;-)

The barnacles came out better than I would have ever thought barnacles could... how does that shot look in b/w? The shadows and the jagged edges really make the photo I think.

The rope shot is pretty neat too. Both the rope and the pier have a very aged look to them, and I don't think it's simply the (sepia?) toning. Is that a beach in Connecticut? Looks similar to a Jersey shore pic, so I'm assuming it is.

[Bonhomme Richard]

47. It is the jersey shore.

I have a house down there and went down a few weeks ago.

here is the barnacle shot in BW. I couldn't decide what to post originally so I went with the color. The shot was taken of a piling at low tide.


LOL, the rope was an afterthought. I had just finished splicing an eye in the line and coiled it. Thought it might make an interesting shot.

[alkaline9]

49. I like the barnacles in color better...

...and I KNEW that coastline looked familiar :9 Although I don't ever remember seeing a pier like that around here. I'm lucky enough to live right next to Sandy Hook in Monmouth County, NJ. I bet your place is much further south.

[CC]

30. Beautiful kitty pics.

And they look great in black and white.

Edited to add- All the pics look great in here. Will have to remember to do a post your pic thread again when it gets slow.

[alkaline9]

43. Thanks :-)

I'm quite happy I decided to start this threat it has given me 2 days worth of "non-I-Hate-Bush" posts to get me closer to the 1000 mark :-D After all, you can only read/post so much bad news before you need a break... and these photos that the wonderful people from the photo group share are great therapy!

[Samurai_Writer]

31. Snow!

The first really big snow we've had this year. I shot this hurriedly this morning as I was leaving for work. We've gotten 4 more inches since these photos.

[GOPFighter]

35. That's the thick, fluffy snow I like

Looks beautiful on evergreen trees.

[alkaline9]

45. Have I mentioned that I LOVE the snow?

...well I do! There is something so soothing about an inch or two of snow covering dark branches. I like the 2nd one a lot, but the 3rd is my fav!! It almost looks like the tree was spray painted white before the snow fell... very cool.

So, 4 more inches... and it looked like you already had 4-8 inches.. *gets out calculator* ...how's the slopes?

[Samurai_Writer]

52. The slopes are ... snowy.

I bet everyone in the Denver metro area is going to be up in my neck of the woods this weekend, skiing. Luckily, I will be in Houston visiting family, so I will miss all the crowds.

[Boo_Radley]

32. My brothers in New York

[alkaline9]

46. Something very warm about this photo...

The interior lighting was perfect for this shot... it contrasts the light from outside quite well. But I have to ask, it looks like the person outside is holding an umbrella.. was it raining? You must have brightened this shot up a bit cuz its not usually that bright when its raining is it? I really like the green of the trees outside too.. they add something to this shot.

So are you the middle child? or are they younger? older?

[Boo_Radley]

61. Middle.

The older one is 3 years older, and the younger one 6 years younger. THe shot just turned out like that. I didn't adjust it. It was a little point and shoot pocket camera that I had just bought on that trip becasue my older camera's autofocus motor died on the Amtrak up there. I think it got confused by the tungsten lighting in the cafe, metered exposure for that, and it lightened up the outside. I'm just guessing, though.

This is the same picture, but taken from outside the cafe on my way in to meet them.

[ConsAreLiars]

34. One in honor of our two most recent contest winners

This is a (the?) church in Kirkenes, Norway, taken on Kodachrome in 1970, maybe on a Voigtlander like this http://ptthome.club.fr/sld106.htm

A little tweaking can bring out some more detail in the shadowed foreground fence, but I present it here unprocessed as evidence of Kodachrome's legendary stability over time.

[alkaline9]

48. very nice! color is excellent...

I can rarely keep myself from doing post-processing on my photos, but this one doesn't need any! The beautiful sky, the shadows, and the 3 crosses on the marble looking face of the church are my favorite aspects... but there's so much more even!

I never would have guessed this was from 1970! This photo is older than me... creepy.

[Boo_Radley]

36. Smithsonian Air & Space

[NV Whino]

51. Snow in CA today

[alkaline9]

55. wonderful!

Can you re-submit this for the January contest so I can go back and vote for it??

[NV Whino]

56. The way the weather's going across the nation

we should have a snow contest.

[NV Whino]

60. A couple of hours later

Well, I don't know what's going on here. This is coming in huge. Sorry.

[Blue_In_AK]

78. You have more snow than we do....

What's going on here?

[CC]

85. Both of these are very

nice and a beautiful way to mark how much snow is falling. Hope the blooms survived the cold though.

[Mutley]

57. Can't remember if I posted these or not... A good thunderstorm rolling in

last summer.

[NV Whino]

58. I love that third one

Just the corner of the buildings and hint of foliage really makes it.

[Mutley]

63. Thanks.

That is typical for that part of Baltimore -- the endless rowhouses and a few little tiny trees.

[alkaline9]

59. I agree, the 3rd one is incredible!

...the framing of the photo from the building and the branches/leaves only adds to it! You can't tell, but was the storm coming or going at that point?

[Mutley]

62. It was coming.

It was about 110 degrees that day and my car had broken down in the city. The air was so oppressive I felt like I could hardly breathe. While we were waiting for a tow truck I felt a cool breeze, looked up, and there was this thundercloud moving in. It was like heaven. I call it "Holy Thundercloud Batman!" because of that and the halo-effect around the head of the cloud.

Thanks, this is one of my favorites. :hi:

[Boo_Radley]

74. Love the lighting effect on the third one

If you could capture that as a back drop for a building, person or event, it would really add to a picture.

[Mutley]

88. I love that.

It looks like a halo. I joke that God was speaking to me that day. :D

[Blue_In_AK]

79. I love dramatic skies...

These are great.

[Mutley]

89. Thanks.

Yes, the sky is one of my favorite things to take pictures of. I have whole "Storm" and "Sunrise/Sunset" files on my computer. :P

[noamnety]

67. some recent landscapes

[NV Whino]

68. Beautiful

I love them both, but the bench is spectacular. The light shining through what must be a plexiglas bench and the shadows of the frame are wonderful.

[noamnety]

69. It's an iron mesh, actually

part of me likes that photo, part of me is horrified because I feel it's destined to be stolen for the cover of a book about the rapture. :)

[Boo_Radley]

75. Very nice.

That first one seems so sad. They're both great.

[Maestro]

82. Very nice

I like the solemnity of the first one and the light in the second.

[CC]

86. Beautiful, just beautiful.

I can't pick a favorite, I love them both. They each evoke a different emotion.

[Mutley]

90. I like them both, but the second one is amazing.

Heavenly almost. :D

[CC]

71. Trying to go to bed and what do

I find under the blankets....

and then

and after these pics the other 4 ferrets and 1 cat woke up and now I have room and can go to bed. They'll be sleeping under the blankets around my feet soon. Except the cat, he'll be between me and the hub trying to push the hub out of the bed. :rofl:

[Blue_In_AK]

80. CC, your ferrets are adorable...

I never would have guessed they could be such cute little things. By the way, do they use a litter box - just curious. We had a bunny a while back who would use the little box in the corner of his cage to do his business. It sure made cleaning the cage easier.

[CC]

83. They definitely use

the litter box, and were very easy to train to use it.It is almost natural to them. They are very lovable and fun too. They do tend to sleep on and near my feet at night. Great feet warmers in the winter. They were stretched out in a line in the middle of the bed last night, keeping Ter on his side so I had room.:rofl: They and the cats think it is their bed anyway.

[Mutley]

91. How cute!

I love ferrets, but I can't have them. My dog would try to make a meal out of them. :(

[Maestro]

81. Playing around with the depth of view

[Boo_Radley]

99. Good job on that

Correct focus and a wide aperature can do an awful lot for a picture.

[F.Gordon]

92. Another River Reflection

Trying to get this thread over 100 posts.... recent filmsie snap that I took... was playing around with it tonight when I should not have been. Took it to "another world" where I am right now due to exhaustion. And now for something a little different..... travel to a different time and dimension... I've been going pretty trippy lately.
:hippie:

[NV Whino]

94. this is cool

Looks like a stage set for Midsummer Night's Dream.

[Boo_Radley]

93. Peterskirche - Vienna, Austria

[NV Whino]

95. I love the soft lighting

Very peaceful feeling. What lens did you use for this?

[Boo_Radley]

98. d70 kit lense

That was the 18-70 Nikkor that comes with the D70 Outfitter. All in all, a pretty nice lense.

[GOPFighter]

97. The word Magnificent leaped into my head when I saw this!

Wow! Very ornate. I really like it.

[NV Whino]

96. Delete

Sorry, I already posted same photo in another thread.

[lakemonster11]

100. A new picture

[CC]

101. For the 101st post on this

thread I will add part two of the maternity shoot I did. A warm welcome for a brand new baby girl.
(I have written permission to use the photos any way I want including to post them to the web.)

Tiny toes


What is this stuff? Its so soft. Mommy I need a velor blanket.


In daddy's hands.

[Blue_In_AK]

102. She's adorable. Congrats to the happy family.

When you say velour blanket, I have to tell you about my youngest daughter, who's 20 now. When she was a baby she used to spend a lot of time with a king-sized rust-brown velour bedspread we had on our bed, since I often brought her into bed with me to nurse at night. Later when she got a couple years older, she appropriated it as her own and insisted on sleeping with it in her own little bed (she called it her "feelie blanket"). Sometimes in the night she would climb up the stairs to our bedroom, dragging the velour blanket behind her (remember, it's KING-sized) and some mornings we'd wake up to find her crashed out on the landing wrapped up in it because it was just too big to drag up both sets of stairs. She slept with it on her bed all through her childhood and teenage years, even though the backing was all wearing off it, and pieces of the batting were falling out all over the place, and to this day, she has it on her bed in her apartment. I don't think she'll EVER give it up.

Tell your friends to keep a close eye on that blanket - it may not be theirs for long. (Or is it yours?)

[CC]

103. That is a neat story and you

weren't as mean as my mom. My sister dragged around a queen sized light weight bedspread forever.I can still remember what it looked like. She called it her gaga. She even sat and held a corner when it was drying on the clothes line, after crying while it washed. My mom cut it up into smaller and smaller pieces until she only had one 12"x12" piece left. She lost it out the car window when she was around 8. Mom would not go back to get it. If and when that blanket gets too bad to be on a bed etc make sure it gets boxed and saved somehow.

The blanket was actually a background in a bag and is mine. But the mommy said she was going out and getting a velor blanket because little Reece was just enthralled with it. I'm not telling her not too or your story until it is too late.
Here are a few more.

The whole family in between shots. Had to catch big brother being sweet, probably won't last long enough.

Girls posing for pics, boys not. Would of been a great pic if dad had looked up.

And remember the grandson pic you sent? All little boys can't just sit and look good for the camera.


And some grown up boys can't either. :rofl:



I could handle doing this for a living, we all had so much fun. BTW your Homer eagles were on the very end of the Daily Show tonight. Moment of Zen.

[Blue_In_AK]

107. These are just fabulous...

They have a very special quality to them that I haven't seen in most professional portraits. You have a real talent there.

I wish I had known about the Daily Show, I would have switched away from the Olympics to watch. I might have said it before, but it's about time Alaska gets some press for something other than ANWR and bridges to nowhere. :rofl:

[Boo_Radley]

104. Nice work

Adorable. I like the shots you did, too.

[Boo_Radley]

105. Road to Versailles

Needs to be rotated. I just didn't get round to going through these.

[babylonsister]

106. My first attempts w/new camera-Manzanillo, MX.

[Boo_Radley]

108. Nice sunset!

Good catch. (Might want to resize a little smaller for posting, though).

[babylonsister]

121. Gracias. I'm working on learning how to do that! I suspect

it's too late now.

[F.Gordon]

111. Awesome color in that first shot

And the sunset shot rocks. Thanks for sharing these.
:hi:

Are these both "in-camera"?

[babylonsister]

120. Thanks! And I guess I don't know what you mean by "in-camera".

They're both "in-computer"! No, but I did get copies made, as well as put them in an album; I also liked that first one; came out pretty clear for a newbie.
As soon as I figure out how to shrink pics, I'll do so. It seems photobucket re-sized the first, but not the second. :shrug:

[NV Whino]

109. After the snow...

we're back to mustard. These are at Charles Krug Wiinery.

[Blue_In_AK]

110. It's good to see the snow did no lasting damage...

We still don't have any. :(

[NV Whino]

115. Vines are dormant this time of year

so neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor dark of night affect them. (Might have to do a little replanting after floods wash away a few.) And cold weather and snow doesn't seem to have affected the mustard. Probably won't have any apricots this year, though. They were just beginning to bloom when snow hit.

[F.Gordon]

112. BEST.PHOTOGROUP.THREAD.EVER.

The mustard fields are beautiful. Stunning. I don't think I've ever seen those. This is a winter thing? The 3rd one is interesting. It almost looks like a reflection shot the way you composed it.
:thumbsup:

There are waaaay too many fantastic photos in this thread to comment on. ALL ahhhhsummmm.

[NV Whino]

114. Mustard is a winter cover crop

for the vines. Then the powers that be decided to put together a Mustard Festival running from February through March to intice the tourists to the valley in the lagging winter months.

But propaganda aside, mustard season in the Napa Valley is truly glorious.

[TahitiNut]

113. I *LOVE* spring in California with the blooming iceplant and mustardweed.

Actually, I love every season in Northern California! (Photos like this make me homesick.)

[intheflow]

117. Flowers and gulls

These were these seagulls who swarmed around us (a la Hitchcock) in Pensacola last weekend.


These are some fallen camillia blossums outside of where I'm staying in Biloxi. Camillia's are my new favorite flower!

[Blue_In_AK]

118. I really love that camelia picture...

[intheflow]

119. Thanks.

Being here is my first encounter with this plant. I saw it and thought it looked like a rose bush with carnation flowers. It's really freaky being in the south where flowers bloom outside in February. But I like it! :)

[CC]

122. Both photos are

simply beautiful. But have to give you a warning, beware being in the south during winter, it could ruin you for life. I miss warm days and flowers in Feb. It has been a couple decades now since I lived in FL and I still feel like Feb should be the beginning of 70 to 80 degree daily weather. and here I am stuck in Feb can be the coldest month territory.