Country Fall Wagon

My husband artist Dennis Reinke has been commissioned to paint a rural scene of the Scottsbluff area in Nebraska. Recently we traveled there to shoot photographs of the scenery. Dennis got some great shots of the bluffs and the farm land around them to use for his painting.

I took a lot of shots for my own pleasure. 

Those of you who know how much I love old wagons 

will understand my thrill in finding this one 

all decked out in autumn finery.

Sharing with

Weekly Top Shot 

Your Sunday Best

The Artist's Touch

I snapped this photo this morning at the 
Rockies Plein Air Quick Draw in Estes Park, Colorado. 
The painting and the hand belong to 
my favorite artist and husband Dennis Reinke.

(I blogged about the 2011 Rockies Plein air Event here.)


Linking up with
Weekly Top Shot 
Your Sunday Best

Patient Mother

Photographically captured this gentle scene 

outside our home this week. 

I love this place where I live.

Linking up with

Weekly Top Shot

Your Sunday Best

Camera Critters

Shoot Edit Submit

Sunday Snapshot
Simple Things Sunday

Spring on the Homestead

The day I took this photo (last week) 

the daytime temperature was in the high 70's. 

The next morning it snowed. 

Such is the month of May in the Rockies.

Hope your day is full of sunshine.

Blessings,

Nancy

Linking up with

Play Time

Earlier last week I watched our neighbor's horses frolick around the corral in a light sprinkling of snow. By the time I retrieved my camera they had stopped. I was disappointed, but then they began nuzzling and nibbling each other and 

I ended up with this playful shot. 

Blessings,

Nancy

Linking up with

Rural Thursday

Friday's Fences
Camera Critters
Your Sunday Best
Weekly Top Shot

Sunday Best - Vintage Rust

Drive by Shooting (with my camera, of course).

Blessings,

Nancy


Linking up with

Sunday Best - Three Posers

Outside the Meadow Mountain Cafe, Allenspark, Colorado

I found this vignette outside 

our favorite Sunday eatery this morning.

It's the simple, ordinary things in life

 I most enjoy photographing.

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary 
is that little extra."  
~Jimmy Johnson

Blessings,

Nancy


Linking up with Your Sunday Best

Pastel And Pines

Ponderosa pines surround our cabin. 

The pastel morning sky 

seen through their feathery boughs 

reminds me of the Lord's words:

"Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10 NIV)

Blessings,

Nancy

Thank you for visiting. Today I'm linking up with:

 

Visit both sites for more Sunday beauty.

Sunday Share - Just Playin' Around

It's been such a go-go-go week that I'm devoting today to rest. But I still want to join in the blog fun so I played around with a photo I took on the way home from church. With Picasa and Picknik editing I took the original photo below and increased the shadow, then brightened the image and tinted it. Maybe I did some other things -- who knows? I can't remember all 

that when I'm just foolin' around. . 

Kinda fun.

This is the original photo. 

Our neighbor left her sprinkler on all night. The water froze on her bush and created an ice sculpture. We still have freezing temperatures here at night. 

After all, we live above 7,000 feet.

Hope you're having a restful Sunday, too. 

We all need to turn down the volume now and then.

Blessings,

Nancy

Sharing with 

God's Painting

The Colorado morning skies are some of the most spectacular I have ever seen.
This unedited photo -- taken from my front porch -- reveals to me that God's artistic hand is unmatchable.

“The heavens are telling of the glory of God; 

And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.”

Psalm 19:1


Blessings,
Nancy

Thank you for visiting. Today I'm linking up with:

Visit both sites for more Sunday beauty.

Sunday Best - No Chrome and Glass Here

 I think chrome and glass is pretty. . . as long as it's in some other person's home. Not mine. Nope. I have no desire to live with the "contemporary look". Just call me an old-fashioned girl.

My grandfather's late 1800's steamer trunk rests in our lingering room. He brought it from Belgium and I inherited it when he passed from this life to the next. The trunk has traveled with me from Illinois to California, back to Illinois, on to Ohio and finally now in Colorado. It tenderly reminds me of where I came from.

 This morning I played around with photographing an old jar filled with white flowers. I shot it in several vignettes  before  placing it on the floor in front of the trunk. I think the processing of the photo gives it an antique quality. What do you think?

"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."  

Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender

Nancy

Thank you for visiting. Today I'm joining;

Take some time to visit Your Sunday Best for links to great bloggers/photographers.

Outside Looking In

For me one of the greatest joys of photography is setting out to capture one thing,

 only to find there is something totally different 

but much more interesting behind me. 

I was taking outdoor winter landscape photos 

earlier this week when I turned around 

and saw my indoor geraniums through the window. 

I love the gauzy effect the window screen gives this vignette.

 "If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; 

for it is hard to be sought out, and difficult". -- Heraclitus

Nancy

Thank you for visiting. Today I'm joining;

Take some time to visit these sites for links to great bloggers/photographers.

Cabin Fever

"A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle." -- Irish Saying

We just arrived home from what is quickly becoming our after-church-on-Sunday tradition: a drive to Allenspark and brunch at the charming Meadow Mountain Cafe. I've written here in the past about the cafe, and I've got some interior shots I'll post sometime, but today I want to show you the Allenspark cabins I photographed after we ate.  I guess you won't be surprised if I tell you I love cabins, since I live in one. 


(Disclaimer: No cabins were harmed in the shooting of this photo blog. I never, ever step on private property -- shoot from the street only unless I have permission. If you're home is photographed here and you want it removed, please let me know. I respect your privacy.)

Love the snowshoes flanking the cabin door and the snow-covered welcome sign.

Don't let all the snow fool you. It was a beautiful day today. Lots of sunshine, which made the temperature very nice. In many spots the snow was already melting.

Weathered logs, red trim. Delightful.

I literally had to stretch to get this shot. The cabin is almost hidden behind the snow and pines.

Allenspark's elevation is 8,520 feet (about 1,000 feet higher than our homestead). 

A cabin with outbuildings is a rare treat.

Oh those old rustic logs!

This has a Hansel & Gretel feel, don't you think?

Those little specks you see in the photo are snow falling from the trees.

What is under all that white stuff?

Beautiful setting for a cabin.

Look at that blue sky. This is one of the reasons I love Colorado. 300+ sunny days a year.

These are all older, small cabins like ours. Which is what I prefer. But for those of you who like new victorian style homes, this one's for you. It's for sale. $395,000 and it's yours.

Click here for the virtual tour.

Hope you had fun tasting my cabin eye candy today. Have a great week.

Nancy

Thank you for visiting.  Today I'm joining these Memes: