Photography...Share of The Day

One of my own joys is photography, more specifically nature photography.  Thought I would share one of today's pics.

Great Opportunity For Mountaindale Photographers To Show Off Their Talents!

Attention local photographers and gardening enthusiasts. Now is your chance to show off your talents, and if lucky even become PUBLISHED! It is that time of year again, time for the Cornell Cooperative Extension's annual photo contest. Twelve lucky submissions from the entries that are received will have their photograph featured in the Second Annual Calendar that will be sold this fall as a fund raiser! Good luck to everyone who enters, and you can count on this writer entering a shot or two of his own.

Cornell Cooperative Extension Sullivan County Announces: Their Annual Photo Contest

What does Gardening/Horticulture in Sullivan County mean to you?

Send us your best photos.

Ferndale,
NY-Enter a photo of a Sullivan County garden/horticulture. Start snapping away. It can be trees and scrubs, flowers or vegetables or even people working at gardening/horticulture; let us know what kind of gardening you enjoy. Everyone is welcome to send in photos. We prefer they are sent electronically as a jpg file. The 12 best will appear on our second annual calendar to be sold this fall by CCE, as a fund raiser. All entries must arrive by August 31, 2011 to be considered. If you have questions please call Susan Dollard at 845-292-5250. Entries are to be sent to smd243@cornell.edu

The Spring Melt Begins...

Like an old man going bald, winter is losing his grip, the snow line fast receding with spring rains washing away most of the white stuff, the smell and taste of rebirth palpable as it hangs in the air. A walk along our rural roads past burgeoning streams leaping and roaring by, the music of it's song music to our ears as rushing water escapes established beds and boundaries, the force and volume threatening to uproot normally safe majestic trees that in warmer months will provide shade from the midsummer sun.

Been sick with the crudes here for a few days, the antibiotics wrecking havoc on my system, but going outside for some fresh air this morning, could not resist the call of spring, the air warm, the smell tickling and teasing my senses, so I traipsed back inside, gather up my camera, put on a heavier coat and went out to capture this moment in time where winter falls and spring begins, even if not officially. Thought I would share a few of my pictures here. Hope that enjoy them as much as I enjoyed getting out of the for a bit, taking a hour to commune with the wonder just outside my door living here in Mountaindale.