Selden Market - Day 38

Kölner Dom - Day 37

2 years ago this week we were in Germany for Christmas markets. Here is Cologne Cathedral the fourth-tallest church building in the world at 516 ft.

Plasma Ball - Day 36

Tipsy - Day 35

Mourning Fog - Day 34

Fatsia Japonica - Day 33

Fatsia japonica and its umbel of small white flowers blooming in my front yard.

Super Moon - Day 32

Tonight’s so called “Supermoon” perigee syzygy the only one in 2017. This full moon is closer to earth in its elliptical orbit so it appears 7% larger and 15% brighter than normal. This is the first of a rare supermoon trilogy with another coming on Jan 1st followed by a third, the super blue moon on Jan 31st.

Vent Room - Day 31

Midtown tunnel old east vent fan room.

Up and Over - Day 30

Shadow Mirror - Day 29

Lady Liberty - Day 28

Duke Chapel - Day 27

Ionic Order - Day 26

Sand Skull - Day 25

Jimi - Day 24

Hoop Trees - Day 23

Starlights - Day 22

Miss Sasha - Day 21

Twist - Day 20

Civic Plaza - Day 19

Thunder Mountain Line - Day 18

Light & Sky - Day 17

High Tide - Day 16

Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) - Day 15

250 years and still going strong. Day 15

Decay - Day 14

Biltmore Lion - Day 13

Kodak Classics - Day 12

Tiny Shrooms - Day 11

The Three - Day 10

Man - Day 9

Supermoon

With a forecast for rain tomorrow night, I headed to East Beach Norfolk to take some Supermoon pictures. I wanted to get an interesting foreground to help add some scale to size of the moon. Canon 7D Mark II, 1/40sec @ f/13, ISO 200, 400mm focal length.

Day 59 - Winter Walk-Off 2016

Today I accepted the Winter Walk-Off 2016 Challenge from fellow blogger Les Parks and his A Tidewater Gardener blog. I decided to head to one of my favorite places in the neighborhood, Turtle Lake located in the Carolanne Farms Neighborhood Park in Virginia Beach. This area is part of the Elizabeth River Nature and Canoe Trail on the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River.

I start my late winter journey with a crocus along the way.

Enter the park where Challedon Drive and Gainsbourgh Road meet.

One of the lake's namesake turtles catching some late afternoon sun.

A pair of mallards swam over to greet me.

The Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River at low tide.

Marsh grass along the shore.

A gum ball caught on its way to the ground and now serving as a cobweb anchor.

Day 48 - Rainbow Slinky

My rainbow plastic Slinky illuminated with an LED Litepanel.

Day 47 - Crystal Golf

Day 46 - Fire Power.

The "Fire Power" nandina is bright red with a quick dusting of morning snow.

Day 45 - Valentines Day

Day 45 - Celebrating ‪Valentines Day‬ with Brown Estate 2010 Rosemary's Block Zinfandel.

Day 44 - I Have a Dream

Dancer Elbert Watson interprets Martin Luther King, Jr's "I have a dream at a Slover Library African-American History Month program.

Day 43 - A rose is a rose is a rose

"A rose is a rose is a rose" even without color.

Day 42 - Picture of a Picture

I had the opportunity to see Edward Burtynsky's exhibition "Water" and hear him talk about creating the work now on display at the The Chrysler Museum of Art. The large prints are a must see and the experience simply ca not be duplicated in a book or on a screen. This image is "Greenhouses, Almira Peninsula, Spain 2010". Seeing this amazing image was a humbling experience for this photographer.

Day 41 -Shakespearean Selfie

Romero & Juliette dropped by Slover Library today for a LOVE selfie.

Day 40 - Virginia is for Lovers

Come experience the ‪LOVE‬ that is Slover, named 1 of 5 libraries in the U.S. worth traveling for. The Virginia Tourism "LOVE" letters come to spend a week at Slover Library.

Day 39 - Year of the Monkey

Chinese New Year‬ welcomes the year of the Monkey at Slover Library where Curious George‬ rules the 2nd floor.