Where we live, this time of year just about every flat surface outside is covered by a thin layer of yellow “dust” which is actually pine pollen…and for me it means sneezing and watering eyes from time to time. It also means having to wash off the car more frequently (unless it rains to do that for me). The image below is the source of that yellow layer of yuck…but without it we’d not have all the nice green pine trees that make living here so special.
I walk two miles every day except Sunday…weather permitting…and I go the same route through our neighborhood. However, I often do not pay enough attention to what I walk near. The other day I carried my camera along and it was that which made me look around me more than normal…and I saw these morning glories in bloom, poking up through the asphalt roadway, in the midst of several fallen pine cones. I liked the scene…and here it is for you to enjoy as well.
One of our neighbors decided to paint their mailbox last week…and I thought it looked very nice in the midst of the flowers in bloom underneath. Why “purple” I wondered…why not I answered.
One of the best things about living where we do in SW Virginia is being real close to Clarence’s…a good ole fashioned country restaurant that serves not only great meals to literally hundreds of people a day living locally, but an equal number of people traveling north to south or vice versa through this beautiful part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Yesterday I went for breakfast with my wife and daughter to celebrate Mother’s Day. I had my usual breakfast with five…say it again…five cups of great coffee. My camera went along as well, but “she” decided to pass on the coffee…electronics being as sensitive as they are to liquids.
OK, this will be the last post pertaining to the Ultimate Frisbie tournament I watched last weekend in Martinsville, Virginia (see my last two posts for more). I mentioned how much energy was expended by players…and when I saw the sorts of food and drinks all along the sidelines, it was evident how they were feeding their energy need. Here’s some examples.
In my last post I shared several images of some of the action on the field at the Mid-Atlantic Championship Ultimate Frisbie Tournament I attended last weekend in Martinsville, Virginia. There were also a lot of interesting scenes I saw on the sidelines as well. The enthusiasm and excitement of those participating was very evident…and the singing and shouting was equally good too. Here are some samples to give you a feel for what I experienced.
Last weekend I spent most of Saturday at the Mid-Atlantic Championship Tournament for Ultimate Frisbie held in Martinsville, Virginia…a sport I had heard about but never watched. I can sum it up by saying that the energy expended by the 16 men’s and 16 women’s teams participating was unlike anything I had watched before. It resembles soccer but with much greater bursts of speed. I was able to capture some nice images (at least there are to me) which show some of the emotion and action I witnessed that day. Were I MUCH younger, I would have enjoyed playing this sport!
Try to find an image where “leading lines” bring your eye into the scene…such as in this example. Other than that, it’s nothing special.
