453: Ditch jewels

452: You looking at me?

451: Almost October Mums

450: Into light

Yes, I know nothing is in focus. I had a version where the bark of the foreground tree was in focus, but then I discovered this is not a picture of bark.

449: Same ornamentals, one step over

448: The Ornamentalist

I went back in the house to get my camera as I was leaving for work yesterday, remembering that every evening on my way home the sunset is striking my friend Brian’s orange-turning tree (it’s a different orange everyday), but by the time I get home, fetch my camera, and get back to Brian’s the light is gone. So with camera at hand on the way to work, everything I passed became an opportunity. I love the way the ornamental grasses in the midground become stacks of gold coins when backlit at f1.4.

447: Confused hydrangea update

The single bloom on the hydrangea bush in front of our house—the bloom that showed up four months after all of the others—is coming along nicely.

446: Rural Route Two

445: What the weeds are up to

444: Iowa: more than corn

…we do soybeans, too.