Happy Saturday (or Sunday)! I hope you are enjoying yourself.
Here are some visual treats.
Spider web
The thing about spider webs is you can only see them when the light on them is just right.
Joan Osborne wrote an amazing song called Spider Web. Click on that and it will take you to the lyrics, though the words are of course much better when Joan Osborne is singing them! Here idea is quite thought provoking, about how something about us that can seem unfortunate, may be the key to our talent and uniqueness.
Have a nice weekend, folks!
A little more winter
It’s starting to warm up, and there’s a lot more moisture in the air, thankfully. The humidity went down into the single digits and the days were cold (for here). My hands became so dry my skin cracked. But winter has its own beauty.
Friends
These dogs were so cute! When I pulled out my camera, I received very cute curious looks, but I wasn’t ready, unfortunately. They went right back to sniffing.
Later I saw the spaniel racing down the grassy mound after a ball. He was really fast!
I’m chained to my desk, and all I want to do is float around in the air
I saw this leaf while I was out on a walk and had to take its picture.
I’m back, back in the DSLR…
I did it. I pulled out my DSLR and took it with me on my walk. I haven’t touched it since our trip. I’ve relied so heavily on the Panasonic DMC-ZS40. The Panasonic is a great camera, every picture comes out, it has something like an 80x zoom, and is small. Everything about it is first rate, so I was wondering what the point is of using the DSLR.
Well, I also took the Panasonic on my walk today, and so I can compare pictures. The power zoom is something I use massively on the little Panasonic, to frame the photo, cut out people or power and phone lines and houses. But taking the pictures side-by-side has allowed me to see the difference. The hues on the DSLR are better. Although, to be fair, I may need to make some adjustments to the Panasonic. I’ll work on that, but meantime, I had some fun with both cameras today.
I’ve done this before, comparing the photos from the two cameras side-by-side, but I still think it’s fun. I’d love to know what you think, so let me know which ones you like better.
I was enthralled by the stark winter beauty.
I spotted this little birdhouse in the tree! I never would have known it was there if I hadn’t been nosing around with my cameras.
How ’bout Christmas?
Wow! I have to get something posted on my blog so you all who celebrate Thanksgiving and are therefore sick of the food, and those of you who don’t celebrate it and were sick of it before you even started, have something new to view.
I have officially started shopping.
November was so wonderful because it’s National Novel Writing Month, or NaNo as writers internationally like to call it for short. November is an excuse to push as much as you can to the side and just concentrate on writing. This makes November my favorite month.
But now it’s December, so how ’bout Christmas? This was a decoration in a gorgeous store called David M. Brian, in Danville, California.
According to the radio, 75% of Christmas shoppers on Black Friday are shopping for themselves. I’m afraid I fall into that category, as I bought these place mats.
But I did also buy two gifts.
Good luck with the holidays!
Fall’s farewell
These were from Wednesday. The aspen is one of the three remaining trees I was able to find with leaves still on them. They are in a sheltered spot.
Those blue jays are in for a jolt to their happy existence. They’ll survive the winter, some always do, but I don’t know how. 
Wednesday night it started raining and snowing. The last stand of autumn foliage has fallen by now, I’m sure.
Fall colors
What a gift tonight’s sunset was! 
Nicci Carrera 