Bursting

I love going on a photography jaunt with another person, if it's the right person.

Nan is definitely one of those right people. She should be getting home to Colorado about now, after nearly a week at our house. It was awesome, and so productive, but I am SO wiped out. Two more hours of work and then I am done for the week. I am so excited about going home and crawling into bed. It's pathetic. The exhaustion was totally worthwhile to have such a fun time with a good friend! :)

Last weekend a friend and her family hosted us up in their Vermont house. We had an awesome time. The foliage was at its peak, and the weather was perfect. Two days in Vermont, and then one day at the coast.

This photo is from the second day in Vermont. I saw my first beavers there, but they were mere specks in the water far below. I didn't get anything even close to worthwhile on my camera. However, as we were coming up from the dam, we stopped for some milkweed pods. I was kind of hoping to get some with a gorgeous fall foliage background, but no luck. Instead, Nan found this milkweed pod just on the verge of bursting open. The seeds were aligned like little scales, as if the pods were vessels for small curled fish.

I was in the process of turning them to black and white photos.... I selected out the seeds because I wanted to filter them differently to the background when doing the conversion. But I liked the seeds so much in color, that in the end I decided to keep them that way.
More shots tonight. Maybe some actual fall foliage this time!

A new photo and some Treasuries!!!

I have so many photos to edit, it just seems impossible.

So many just from Colorado, let alone my three day weekend in Vermont for the peak of the fall foliage, and down on the Connecticut coast on the salt flats.

How to eat this elephant? One bite at a time.... starting anywhere.

This one's from somewhere in the middle:

And finally I have a bit more time for the internet! These last few weeks have been very happily busy. I missed out on noting a few Treasuries. Here are some I am currently in, in my two etsy stores:

And my absolute favorite Treasury of the lot today:

...TEMPERATURE RISING... by eclectibles - an etsy shop that is going to open this fall. If the banner and avatar are an indication, I think it should be a very interesting store!

As with most of my new photos, the one in this entry will make it to my LittleOddACEO shop first. When I put in my next print order, I will get a couple of other larger sizes of this print. Stay tuned, the ACEO sized print should be up in a few minutes! :)

Guest entry: Kipling

Hi, I'm Kipling, guest authoring an entry because LoM is such a road-tripping, leaf-peeping, toad-posing lush, that she's not out of bed yet.

Alright alright, I'll pause a moment while the requisite squealing-at-my-adorablenesses gets over and done with:

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Alright. Done now? You sure?

We had an awesome day yesterday! I took LoM out early in the morning at my Vermont holiday house, and made her throw sticks for me for an hour. She's ok at throwing them, but she's never standing up properly when I get back with them, she's always on the ground with that stupid little black non-fun non-stick Thing that she keeps shaking in my face. Oh well, at least she then gets back up and plays properly for a little while.

Then the humans took me for a nice long walk, despite my human Mom's gimpy leg. They weren't expecting to take me for a long walk, but I said "are you kidding me? This is NOT a walk!" so they grumbled their way along another couple of miles to a place where they could overlook a dam. I wasn't paying much attention, but they were saying lots of words like "stunning" and "glorious" and LoM was just awestruck and mouthing naughty words that a young pup like I just can't repeat without getting spanked!

That's about all for now. I figure Nan and LoM are getting up soon and heading for the coast. I just made coffee. Guess I had better pour them a cup of Java and lick them awake. They're heading for the coastal salt-marshes today!

Anyone else for coffee?