copy of time

I did copy you & Mattijn. I wasn't going to post at all because I didn't take one picture this week! But I was moved by your collage. Seamless! And I was moved by your doggies. I did take each one of the photos used (five in all) over time.

The little tattered morning cloak near the front below, arrive the day after Khafre passed. Though I won't go into the details about it, that morning cloak felt like Khafre's presence. It hung around our front door for three days. Martin even noticed it! After the third day - oh god I didn't realize how religious that sounded till I wrote it, but this is how is happened - the tattered morning cloak was gone, but a full winged morning cloak appeared. Daily, for two weeks, it graced our front yard. In all my years in Alaska, I'd seen a morning cloak only twice before and only fleetingly.

Time

My interpretation of the topic is so loose this week I think I need to provide a lengthy explanation! I had several ideas which sort of fit together and hopefully create a legit sense of "Time". Awhile ago I saw some photography work done by a man who combines his regular photography work with fantasy photo montage - kind of like mystery cards only with his own photographs. He shoots a variety of different photos for a given project then spends hours layering them in photoshop to come up with a single fantasy image. The catch is both he and his cat always appear in the image (http://www.mattijn.com/index.htm). The first picture below is my take on his idea, though not nearly as well done. Three individual photos layered to create one single image. THAT image represents TIME to me in two ways: the time it took working in photoshop to layer the images (and attempt to blend them) and the images themselves representing time we found to enjoy our first snowstorm of the season. The dogs got to frolic, Patrick got to play on his back hoe and I got to try my new x-country skis (Patrick got to ski too, but I have opted not to create his double for this image :o). Below the montage are two pics of Orzo - I have included them mainly because I loved them (couldn't decide between the two so you get both) but also because this was the first snowstorm of his young doggie life. He absolutely loved it! We spent a lot of TIME outdoors before all the snow melted 2 days later.... :o(

Blue

I will confess that I did not take this picture this week, however when I saw the topic I thought of this image and simply had to submit it. I went into my archives and pulled it out. I took this on a day hike in Cold Spring, New York in 2010. I was standing on top of Bull Hill trying to capture Manhattan as it was peeking out from the hills as you look south along the Hudson. The blue-ish tint was definitely an unintentional happy accident. I took a lot of pics that day, but this one with the rolling hills and silhouetted city was my favorite. Hard to believe I was 50 miles away from the city!

blue

I had hoped to be more creative that this with "blue," but this is what I got. Sunrise does bring out the theme in rather obvious fashion. 

due to snow

So... I didn't make it outside except to drive to & from work and put the garbage out. No outdoor shots to illustrate the weather up here in a direct way. Below is my indirect way of speaking about the conditions outside as this is what I sat beside in order to stave off the chill. In an effort to stretch within the same-o-same-o, I attempted to still the rising smoke through camera settings (and, like, a million attempts!) and stretch as well to force a break from b&w. Happy Yoga-ing!

Let's go!

While you are dealing with shoveling, subzero temps and wonderful frost, I have Spring-like streams. Where is Winter?