For a few of the days during a recent trip to Florida my wife and I woke up before the sun to sit outside and sip coffee while we huddled under blankets and watched the sky do amazing things.
So as you may or may not have noticed I took a trip to Florida recently and I took MANY photos while I was there. I’ve gone through about 5% of them and for the most part I like what I’m seeing. This one in particular came out pretty great (I think). Stay tuned for more photos of blue skies, white sand, green trees and orangey-purpley sunsets + rises. And also an alligator.
The view from one of my favorite roads.
Last week I took a little trip to PA to visit some family. It was a super fun time and I got some really great photos. Mostly of kids & dogs doing cute things. Hey, shoot what you love, right? I snapped a few pics with my iPhone as well, using the Hipstamatic app that is until said app started crapping out on me. I’ve since joined the Instagram club. We’ll see how that goes. Here’s 6 pictures I did get. These pretty much represent the trip in its entirety. It went something like this: Drink coffee, eat, after dinner walk, trip to here, trip to there, more coffee, more walking, take the recycling out. I mean, there was more to it then that but I’ll spare you the details.
One of my favorite places in the whole world is an empty field in upstate New York on the edge of a town called Hudson. There really isn’t much there - some grass, a few trees, a barn off in the distance, an old fence, a new fence, a broken mailbox and a myriad of bugs. I think thats what I like so much about it though. Not the bugs part (they suck) but the part about how that there isn’t much there. There’s no distractions and it’s a good thing not have any distractions once and a while. Lucky for me this place is walking distance from my mother-in-law’s place so I regularly get the oppurtunity to spend some time there.
It’s been several hours now since I saw a halo around the sun for the first time ever and I think it’s safe to say that I’ve become obsessed with this phenomenon now. There’s tons of awesome pictures of them all over the internet and there’s an equal amount of interesting articles about them. Take a look at a couple here, here, and here if you’re interested. I was deathly afraid of pointing my camera directly at the sun for, I think, obvious reasons. The main one being that I was certain such a strong beam of light traveling through several pieces of glass which would then concentrate said beam onto an expensive and delicate sensor would end in an explosion of catastrophic proportions. So I took a slightly different approach and took a photo that included the ground and only a portion of the halo thereby making it appear to be an upside down rainbow. OMG! UPSIDE DOWN RAINBOW! *cries
I think it turned out pretty sweet.
I just got the chance to see a halo around the sun. It’s an optical phenomenon that happens when there’s ice crystals high up in the atmosphere. The picture isn’t the best representation of what it really looked like but it’ll give you some idea. And man, it was gorgeous.
Last week during “The Great Staycation of 2012” I had the opportunity to visit one of New Jersey’s many wonderful farms. Cherry Grove Farms, located in Lawernceville, is situated on 230 acres of certified organic pasture and boy-howdy is it beautiful. I’d say it was actually one of the high points of TGS2012. That and sleeping until 11am. Besides having the usual farmy things laying around (goats, chickens, guys in overalls, etc.) they have a creamery where you can watch them make cheese - some of the most delicious cheeses this side of the Delaware in my opinion. They’re all made from their own cows milk and most of them are raw. If you get a chance to visit, do it and pick up some of the herdsman while you’re there you won’t regret it. They also sell lamb, pig, chicken and a variety of other local products like honey and mustard. And if that’s not enough the people who work there are all super nice and friendly. I could go on but I’ll spare you. It’s an all around great place to visit. Just go already!
In New Jersey, just outside New York City, there’s a bridge that vomits rainbows up into the sky. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you can see it from the train. But only if you’re lucky.
So much sky, so little time to lay on the grass and stare at it.
