15 April 2010

So it's Tax Day! Who cares when the sun is shining?


This morning, I put on my gym togs, planning on working up a sweat before coming home to actually accomplish something. It didn't work. I was drinking my coffee (I can't work out without that), and looking out the window and I just couldn't stand the idea of being indoors on such a gorgeous morning.

So I didn't. I trekked off through my neighborhood with my trusty camera, randomly snapping photos of ... I don't know. Everything. Nothing. Cool stuff? You be the judge. I was just having fun, here.

Magnolia.... They're everywhere.

Brown Line tracks. Yes, those ARE houses backing on to the tracks. Expensive ones, too.

Just a random architectural detail that now faces an alley. I think the alley was once a street, but it's hard to tell. There's a lot of this glazed terra cotta work around here, you just have to hunt for it.

I love these trees. They're nothing fancy, just weeping willows, but they're gorgeous, aren't they? When the leaves finish coming out, they'll be silvery.

These are just a reminder that Tax Day also means spring is here and I have proof! This is what we waited for all winter. Now everyone should go out and spend at LEAST an hour outdoors today.

(All photographs copyright 2010, all rights reserved.)

9 comments:

  1. Thanks! The camera now lives by the door. I have a case for it that accommodates wallet, cash and keys, so I just grab it when I go.

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  2. Love Love Love magnolias. How do we forget how wonderful this time of year is? It's very hard to recapture in memory, I find.

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  3. Love the photos! Spring is really here...

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  4. Cantahamster - That's what cameras are for! I adore magnolias and when we moved from Texas, I really missed mine. It was such a relief to find them here.

    Kati - I posted another one over on SHADDAP! I just don't have a headline yet this week.

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  5. Messy, I'm reading a very interesting and weird mystery novel involving photography, incluing the history of photography. I don't know if you read it yet but if not I think you might like it.

    It's CAUGHT IN THE LIGHT by Robert Goddard.

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  6. Messy, I will most definitely go spend at least an hour outside in the sunshine today! Not only am I over my cold finally, I think the mountain passes are calling me for a little drive. :D Nothing like endless hills of green to make you realize Spring is here!

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  7. Corey - That's the spirit! When the sun is shining, ALL of us should get outdoors at every opportunity. After being stuck inside for most of the winter, it's a necessity.

    Remember kids, you don't make vitamin D if you're plastered with sunscreen 24/7. Doctors are recommending that for 15 minutes three times a week, we should all be outside with bare skin. No, that is NOT "guaranteed cancer" as one person told me. It's just enough.

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  8. WOOHOOO NUDITY FOR ALL!!
    Wait, that's not what you meant by "bare skin" was it.
    *blush*

    Meanwhile, I totally agree about getting some vitamin D when you can, even 5 minutes on not freezing days when the sun is shining is good for us...

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