Righty tighty, lefty loosey..........

It is so funny that there is a group on facebook actually called I-still-say-Righty-Tighty-Lefty-Loosey-when-i-unscrew-things  Which is truly funny because now every time I loosen or tighten that's what I think of when I am saying righty-tighty lefty-loosey!  There you have it, another look into my head.

Last post I mentioned some new lenses. You may have guessed that they have arrived, you would be right except that my fish eye has not arrived thanks to the silly UPS driver who seemed to think he had the right house and they denied the package! COME ON, doesn't that seem odd? Dork anyway.
Well I do have my Sigma 24-70mm and my ultra wide extension. Though I haven't had much time to get out and play around a lot with these, I do have a few to share:

And I hope that you wouldn't think that I wouldn't add something:

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Another Original:

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And finally:

No alterations because I LOVED the contrasting colors here!
With any luck I have a photo shoot on Wednesday and HOPEFULLY UPS will get my package to the right house (mine) and I will have a fish eye extension. Fingers crossed everyone!

Third

The third place we found was setting way back off the road and we had to hike from the road because I didn't want to risk getting stuck in knee deep snow.  Needless to say I got a good workout, which is good because since I hurt my back with an unknown cause, I haven't been able to run.

We hiked up to the front door and was greeted with disappointment.  The floor portion of the front of the house was totally caved in.  



That was sad, so we went around back to see if we could get in.

The back door worked!  Here is what we seen:




Here is the front room that was caved in:


Since the floor was mostly in the basement, we were not able to get to the second floor of this place.

What I found most amazing about this home was that normally when people leave or abandon a home, they take everything, sometimes down to the wires, literally. This house still had everything, in disarray but it was there, in the back entryway there was still a tv and a chair under all the rubble and trash. So, it leaves me to wonder did these people pass on or just walk away from their lives and treasures?


Now I said last post that I found my most favorite shot up to date and, drum roll please:




I know, it's three different tones of the same shot, but I am really loving this shot and now that I am done with these places, I will begin work on the abandoned factory that I went into last weekend and hopefully we may be able to get out and go another way this weekend! Stay tuned to find out and watch for the factory photos!!

Fall?

Since I missed the weekend, I thought I would make up for it with some fall colored trees.



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From here, I will go away from trees.

Gators

When you come to Florida you expect to see alligators, right?  We haven't hardly seen any.  We have seen more things you wouldn't expect to see, like the manatees and we seen a dolphin.  Well on our boat ride we seen a couple gators and here they are:






The locals tell us that gators really start coming out when it starts to cool down, but when it is really hot they tend to stay more in the water. I suppose it's really better that way since I have no interest in being bitten by one!

One last shot before I go, just because it's beautiful!

Tuesday

Today we had a very busy day!  Let me tell you, I don't know why people think that a vacation is rest!  My husband wanted to show us things in Florida that he did as a child as well as do the space center and see the ocean.  Well as you may remember we left the house Thursday afternoon, and pushed down to Florida checking into our resort by 2 p.m.  Well needless to say we were tired!  I have to tell you, it doesn't seem like it has slowed down at all!  Today we started at 6 a.m.  Our air boat tour was scheduled to start at 9:00 a.m. and we figured we needed to give ourselves 45 minutes to get to our destination.
We went out on an air boat tour for 1 hour and a half.  We didn't get to see a lot of alligators, but we did get to see a bunch of birds, and I got to see a pink bird, which I believe was a spoonbill of some sort, but I didn't get a shot of him because he took off as we were buzzing by.  Here is a bit of what we seen today:


These were the first birds who didn't fly away as we came by.  I am pretty sure that they actually put forward their best side.


It's a small world, this shot was taken in Florida, I live in Michigan, about 30 minutes away from Litchfield, and we actually worked for the owners of this company.


We seen these just before we got on our airboat.


This was the last thing we expected to see while out in the wet lands and swampy areas.

This was out on a refuge trail, we didn't see a lot of animals or many exotic birds, but it was very cool to see the areas we did see.


And finally, we did see the Manatees on Sunday, but we didn't get great photos because we were quite a ways away from where they were swimming. We did find another area thanks to some locals, and these Manatees were really close, but the water is murky and they don't surface very often and when they do they mostly just take a breath so it's quick and not a lot to see! Here's some noses:


I did get a tail. But most of the shots are of noses.
That's all for now!

More from Florida

My version of "footprints" except I think I will call it, "Webprints"



On the beach there are tons of seagulls, and there are many other birds as well, I don't know the names of them, but here is one:


Then there was these cute little fluffy birds, and they just run and pluck from the seaweed and they will fluff up thier feathers and sort of "cuddle".


And if you get out to the beaach really early, or late in the night you will see these little cuties:

They are FAST!

Real quickly tonight! First of all, sorry no photos last night, was on the road going from Michigan to Florida! Finally after 20 hours in the car we made it. Well this after noon we walked down to the beach with what little energy we had, and there were tons of things for me to photograph! Here is what I have to share tonight:

Isn't this the most adorable bird, and he was just there! Tomorrow, I will try to put more up, and we are going north to St Augustine--so tons more as well!!

Ready?

Aren't they beautiful?