Friday, July 3, 2009






Yesterday morning I went to the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens. I arrived there about 8:30 am. It was already 85 degrees. By the time I left at 11:00 the temp was in the mid 90's. Glad I went early in the day. It was too hot for an old lady to be out in all of that heat. Whew. Here's the result of my trip to the Gardens.


Here's Heidi!!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
















My daughter is away and I'm taking care of her cats. Kudzo loves to pose for the camera, but Heidi, like to hide so I have been able to take a picture of her yet. The pictures of the sunflowers were taken in my yard yesterday. The seeds blew in from some place else and landed in front of my garage. I didn't cut them down because I think they are pretty, they are growing wild all over Granbury, but these are my very own. I took them using a tripod to see if I could capture the tiny seeds in the middle of the flower. At first I had little sucess then it occured to me to use the flash. I was then able to caputre the tiny seeds. I thought they turned out pretty good. Tomorrow I may go to the visitors center and try experimenting with shutter speed while taking pictures of the water fountain. If I post them you will know that I think I did well. If you don't see them, you can guess, they didn't turn out very well.