Jack...
...brilliant photo...it captures the underlying lights in the water...which is giving it its golden glow...

Jackie, thanks, but with the good camera and right time of night I can do better.    It is a small fountain, but again the park is so close and I usually pass it twice in my walks.

I like that photo, Jack.  I've been using my iPhone occasionally for photos and really like it for quick snapshots.  Lately I've been using my Panasonic ZS10 that has a touch screen.  It's small and light and easy to use for videos and the focus is exceptional.

Jean like the sound of the ZS10, I have the 200 and real pleased with it, so will not upgrade.  You are right about the iPhone, does a decent job and is always handy.

I took this one several years back with the Panasonic.   Sundown and no cars on the parking lot, so great time for a photo.


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Quite a contrast Jack...

I phone seem to be getting better and better all the time for taking photo's. That one jack was so good. Beautiful colour.

JACK YOU ARE SO LUCKY TO LEAVE NEAR SUCH A LOVELY PARK. THE PICTURES YOU GET FROM THERE ARE SO BEAUTIFUL.

JeanneP   I have an old iPhone 5, understand the newer models do a better job.
Lin,   Yes I am very fortunate.  The Lodge and 3 golf courses fund it and the park is open free to the public.

I agree with y'all, cameras of all kinds are better & better.  Jack does a fantastic job of capturing color, movement and composition with whatever one he pulls out!  Beautiful shots, Jack.... that is such pretty water & colors in both.  My favorite is still the one with the pink center stream of water, love that sunset shining through the water. 

Jack, I also have the Panasonic 200 but I get tired of holding it when taking a video.  It is nice out.  We came home from the market at dusk and it was nice seeing some young families walking and biking and enjoying themselves.

Shirley,  thanks, sometimes I am just lucky.

Jean, simple solution, put Larry to work, and lets see the young people out and about.

I just came back in, took the weed whip down to the river bank to trim back into the weeds after #1 son used the John Deere a few days ago, to trim back into the bank where the city guys don't go (I have them afraid to cut into my "flowers"...)  I put off cleaning because of the heat & humidity & when it cooled it usually rained so the bank was muddy & slick.  Tonight was spur of the moment & I failed to use any bug spray or take my B-1 vitamin.... so my ankles to knees are itching me crazy!  I washed them off in the tub & even put some cream on, not sure what kind of critters down there, not chigger bites & not mosquitoes.  I didn't see any sand fleas but got so many bites or itchies I can't sit here much longer.      This ought to be fun trying to go to sleep tonight.

Shirly...
..oh my, sounds like you will be doing a tad of " bed hopping..." do you have Calamine lotion to hand? ( a combination of zinc and ferric oxides ) an old fashioned remedy that was used on me as a child that soothed rashes, measles, chickenpox....

Even plain vinegar helps on those bites. We have so many of those biting/stinging insects here and vinegar is my savior,  more than what they sell in the pharmacy.
When you don't have any on hand, rub soap on the area.

Thanks for the tips, Jackie & Bubble..... turns out probably some kind of grass or weeds, nary a single "bite".  They finally quit itching & no problem today.  I do still have some zinc & castor oil my daughter brought me from "Boots" in England, but I forgot about it before going to bed.  I never thought about vinegar, Bubble....don't recall anyone ever using that except for a sunburn.  Works for you, huh?  Good to know, I'm always trying the old fashioned remedies.

Heat & humidity at "dangerous" level so am inside until it cools.  I went to church real early & back home by 9:00 am, after breakfast at McDonald's with my "kids".  I tried to talk them into Panera but none of us like Panera coffee.  I can't get moving today, need to sort some clothes that I don't wear.  Sadly, places that used to ask for clothes now want NEW (with tags on) or money. 

Jack. I think tomorrow I will go and look for a Unlocked Iphone 5. I don't need anything newer than that. Best buy have the one that is "Boost" the no contract . Don't really want a contract either. couple of other places to go also.
Now Comcast have a service now for Wireless. Need a Phone but at both places would be able to still use my Home Line number. I pay $32 to home line and all I get is darn unwanted call. Go now from 8am to the other night 10Pm.

With all that is going on in the world, we may sometimes forget how many good people surround us.   Now it helps when you have a dog companion.   Last week I met two young ladies at the park.  This evening I spotted them again, they came over and told me they had a gift for me.   They game me a photo in a nice grey wood frame.  The scan did not do the frame justice but here is the photo they took.  How nice is that!!

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It's a nice picture of you and Mimi, Jack, but too bad it's a rear view of you.

Mary Ann

How neat is it that Mimi faces the camera and smiles!!!  She's got your back, huh?  Looks like you are holding an umbrella over her, what is that?  My sons would be green with envy at all your hair "top-back".      Good shot & nice of them. 

MaryAnn the good thing is I did not have to pose, and did not know they were taking the photo.

Shirley They have small concrete mushroom shaped posts along the path with lights that shine downward.  Pleasant in the evening.

What a nice gift.  She was sure smiling at those girls.

Jack wv...
...how thoughtful of this nice young couple of friends...what a pleasant surprise from two strangers who took a shine to your Mimi...Ha ha, well Mimi spotted the camera aiming at her, even if you didn't...clever girl Mimi...

Who is that 30ish young man with Mimi?     Great photo.  I bet you don't have many from the back!

Jean, Jackie and Bubble thanks.   Mimi always has the smile.  Good view of the old guy.  Front view I look heavier.

Jack, those mushroom lights are much like the ones all around this house when we bought, only these were on wrought iron "stems" & maybe a little shorter.  They were across the foundation in front and across the pool fence & berm in back, at least 25-30 or more.  They came down fast!     I forgot all about them until you said "mushroom".  Thanks. I do think the photo tells a story.... hope you sent it on to your gr-daughter & daughter.... 

Shirley sounds like you had a few too many mushrooms.  You have the artists eye and understand removing them.  Thought I would have a photo along the path showing ours, but did not.   Yesterday I went up for the concert and took a photo of the crowd, and it shows several mushrooms on the stairs and you might be able to spot them running from the right along the path and to the center of the photo.  They are well done, sturdy, and the lights do not shine in your eyes.

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My nightly walk at the park.   Took some carrots to feed the deer.  They ate out of my hand.   Do not have a garden so find it hard to believe some see the beautiful creatures to be pests.

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Jack, that deer looks like she may be "with child"..... a little late in the season for that, isn't it?  My cousin that lives in your neck of the woods does everything possible to keep the deer from eating her plants.  She took the whole "Master Gardener" program & planted like crazy when they first built.  Now she narrows it to what the surrounding critters DON'T want to eat.  Those mushroom lights are a little larger than what was here & look nice in public places.  They were "a bit much" around here. 

Nice picture of the deer.  It is hard to look then in the eye, and know what harm they can do.  afriend here in the park, hit a deer, went throw the windshield, put him in the hospital for a month, but he never was able to walk again.  Other one went through a windshield and killed a young women, that was on a road near here.  When I lived in WaterMill they even came on the deck and ate the flowers out of the pots.  we do have a petting zoo near here and the children love to go pet them.

Lin you are right, they do present problems.  I have a few that visit our neighborhood, and have no plants for them to eat.  Oglebay has a very large amount of deer.  No hunting on the property.  The tourists love them, with their roaming even over the golf courses.  I love to see young children feed them.  One large field, at times, may have 20 to 30.   This is a winter photo, and I always have to stop to watch them.


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