My Everything Corner

With all the storms moving through here in the past few days, we have had some interesting skies.  Although I'm ready for sunshine, these skies are far better than a washed out grey any day of the week, which is what we have again today.  You would think that my longing for blue skies would steer me towards color photos, but I just loved these in black and white. An interesting yin yang split. I love when light, bright, puffy clouds are layered over top of dark, stormy looking ones. There was so much movement and so many textures. Clouds can be so majestic.

I've been keeping my camera on the kitchen table, ready to go, for the last several days, trying to catch one of these rascals on 'film'.  I never get there in time.  I see them from the sink, move to the window, and by the time I'm in position, they flit off.  They move so fast, it's easy to think they are not wholly of this dimension. So, this morning, camera (and coffee) in hand, I pulled a chair up to the window, and waited.  Patience soon paid off, as before I could take 2 photos of one, a second little rascal showed up.  There was a bit of a tiff, but they settled on opposite sides, and had their fill.   I love the sciences, biology in particular.  I'm forever looking up names of plants and birds, interested in their biological classification.  Then doing further research into specifics concerning various feeding/growing habits, origin, etc.  I find it fascinating.  Why then, do you ask, am I not a biologist?  I considere...