2 Things Challenge: Post/Parallel

The 2 Things Challenge last week was Post/Parallel.

We made a sudden trip to Pennsylvania Wednesday evening last week and had to drive a few hours from Baltimore to get to the farm.  For a good deal of the way we drove through falling snow, but the roads weren't treacherous until we got close and had to go over a mountain, and then it was mostly the fog I was worried about.  Anyway, this is what we woke up to Thursday morning, a couple of inches with the parallel fence posts sticking up through.

2 Things Challenge: Water/Art

The 2 Things Challenge this week is Water/Art.

One of the many stations in the McWane Science Center in Birmingham is the Bubble Room.  There you, er . . I mean the kids, can create all sorts of bubbles with a little bit of soap and water.  Some are quite artistic, but transient, sort of like performance art.  One machine even lets you be inside the bubble.  Mason likes to pop them with his nose, and here he waits for a big one with his reflection to settle on his face.

Black and Blue

"As the crow flies" is a phrase I've heard all my life and from my childhood understood it to mean the shortest possible distance between two points, and not necessarily the distance one must really travel to get there.  I never thought much about what it really meant or where it came from until much later in life as I watched the crows around here actually fly.  They do seem to almost always be going somewhere with a great purpose, nose down and flying quickly in a straight line.  Seldom do I see one take a short jaunt (unless he's eating road kill and just moves to get out of the way of my car).  Seems they always go somewhere a half mile or more away.  Sometimes it's like if they wanted to go fifty yards south, they would first fly a mile north, turn around, caw a few times, and fly a mile and fifty yards south, straight as an arrow both ways.

2 Things Challenge: Numbers/Peak

The 2 Things Challenge this week is Numbers/Peak.

I posted this photo a long time ago, but it was very appropriate for the challenge this week.  The little terrestrial bump near my home goes by several names (Columbiana Mountain, Mount Dixie, Cates Mountain), but I think the USGS calls it Columbiana Mountain.  At the peak is a USGS marker, and my GPS gives the coordinate numbers for the exact peak.  

The Trouble . . .

 . .with outdoor winter photography in the South is seldom a beautiful snow scene.  Except for pine trees and Christmas lights, everything is pretty much various shades of gray and brown.

But sometimes those grays and browns arrange themselves in a particularly nice manner.

2 Things Challenge: Town/Illusion

The 2 Things Challenge this week is Town/Illusion.

 

This is the little town of Columbiana during the holidays a few years ago, and there's the illusion of a car streaking through the intersection.  That was interesting, but not the shot I was hoping for at the time.

I Want That One

Tina made orange cupcakes, and they were good.