Frapto 365

These are leaves native to our area here in NW NJ, the Skylands region. JD & Brian live about 90 minutes southwest from me but our weather patterns and native trees are quite different. Pictured are leaves from ash, sweetgum, birch, beech. hickory and ash trees. Surrounding the rock are brown pin oak and white oak leaves. Black, pin and white oaks never turn color, just brown and many stay dead on the trees until the new spring growth pushes them off. Which probably is one of the reasons that explains why oak is is considered such a strong tree. Red oaks, on the other hand, turn russet and are in our area, though not as many (and yes, their leaves stay on the trees too.)

I wanted to capture how beautiful, clear and blue the sky was today. I have just a clear sky shot but after looking at it in the camera, thank goodness for digital cameras, I thought to myself that hell anyone can fill a canvas will blue paint. So I decided to take another and include a little cloud, so not so clear, but proof that it is a picture of the sky and not a shop.

This picture was taken with my arm extended out of my sunroof while I was driving over the Tacony Palmyra Bridge, going about 25 or 30 mph…

here is a picture of the puzzle we have been working on,  just about done.

Ping hides under my bed when she thinks it’s time to leave. She doesn’t like for my door to be closed, even if I’m not in the room!