Nana's Lens

Emerging

2009-08-28T09:37:00.000-07:00

Red. White & Boom

2009-07-06T07:53:00.001-07:00

Happy Flowers

2009-06-07T14:22:00.000-07:00

Wild Roses

2009-06-03T08:20:00.000-07:00

Honeysuckles

2009-06-03T08:15:00.000-07:00

At our last house, we had dozens of honeysuckle bushes. I miss them. I loved walking out my front door to be overwhelmed with the fragrance. While I was in Kansas over Memorial Day, my friend had these bushes in her backyard and I had to take pictures.

Bleeding Heart

2009-05-06T06:08:00.000-07:00

Morning on the Davenport Riverfront

2009-04-26T10:03:00.000-07:00

A day beside the River

2009-03-21T22:42:00.001-07:00

Waiting

2009-02-28T12:40:00.001-08:00

I sense a theme in my longings

2009-02-24T07:28:00.001-08:00

I can't wait to see this again!

2009-02-19T07:08:00.000-08:00

Sunsets

2009-02-03T20:45:00.001-08:00

I've lived several places and I've visited many places and I don't think I've ever been anywhere that had more consistently stunning sunsets. I haven't yet learned to capture the full magnificence with my lens but here's a sample:

My Puppy, Brody

2009-01-04T08:58:00.001-08:00

He's a six-month-old puppy. Mommy was a Black Labrador, and we think Daddy must have been a Golden Retriever.

Christmas 2008

2008-12-25T19:07:00.001-08:00

Some Serious Bed Head

2008-11-30T10:53:00.000-08:00

Festival of Trees Parade, Davenport, IA

2008-11-23T19:34:00.000-08:00

It was cold.

Only in Iowa.

Variety

2008-11-20T08:29:00.001-08:00

I never cease to be amazed at the variety of God's world. I've never seen a pinecone like this one until my last trip to Oregon!

Two Roads

2008-11-16T18:59:00.000-08:00

ROAD LESS TRAVELED

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth

Then took the other as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
I doubted if I should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference

Robert Frost (1920)

Skyward

2008-11-08T18:50:00.001-08:00

Oregon

2008-11-04T07:14:00.001-08:00

Roadside

2008-10-10T14:17:00.001-07:00

On the wind

2008-10-04T13:07:00.000-07:00

Metamorphasis

2008-09-01T07:55:00.000-07:00

As a follow up to the last post with the cicada skins, my Hero caught this one coming out of it's skin last night. This is something you don't get to actually witness very often.

Summer, Bugs, Frogs and a Boy

2008-08-22T08:11:00.000-07:00

Just a warning up front: the last picture is gross. I mean really, snotty, boy gross.

The lazy days of late summer offer many opportunities for boys to explore and learn about the world around them. Cicadas are funny little creatures that are born and live underground feeding off of tree sap from the roots. When they are ready to morph into winged adults, the nymphs come out of the ground and climb up any nearby tree or plant or even fence and shed their skin. They leave behind a great sci-fi shell.

My grandboy was completely fascinated. It took a lot of explaining to convince him that this was not a live creature, and then even more for him to believe that it was not a dead bug.

I tried and tried to get him to pronounce ci-ca-da, but it kept coming out mikayla.

This just isn't the image that Mikayla brings to my mind.

But he enjoyed it.

Then, a few days later he discovered that our yard has an entire community of frogs inhabiting it.
Maybe his mom should have wiped his nose before she snapped this picture. Ya think? It does say "All Boy" though. Oh, and when he saw this picture he found it necessary to remind me that those are the frogs' butts in the picture.

What?!

2008-08-20T07:04:00.000-07:00