Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow

Posted on August 7, 2013 by treshabarger

A group of vultures is called a wake (when they are feeding), kettle (while in flight), or when resting in trees: committee, volt, venue.

If I’m real still, maybe they won’t notice me.

A vulture venue

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow

Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece

Posted on July 31, 2013 by treshabarger

Certainly lots of images came to mind when this week’s weekly photo challenge, Masterpiece, showed up in my inbox. Art works from over the centuries could provide thousands of examples. However, as I respect the signs in galleries and museums that prohibit picture taking, I don’t have any photographs of them.

Mother Nature has the advantage in this category, anyway. (And the Houston Museum of Natural Science allows photographs in this exhibit.)

Conch shell at the Houston Museum of Natural Science

Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

Posted on July 24, 2013 by treshabarger

As fresh as fresh can be!

Fresh Pizza Dough at Whole Foods Market (Arbor Trails, Austin)

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through Your Eyes

Posted on June 26, 2013 by treshabarger

Here’s what “stuck in traffic” looks like to me. Somehow my lot in life is to be behind a larger vehicle anytime traffic is slower than normal or stopped. I can’t see ahead to figure out if I should change lanes or not. Usually I don’t, only to find that when the larger vehicle in front of me changes lanes, I’m then right behind the traffic hazard (stalled vehicle, emergency vehicle, etc.).

The view in traffic

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This is my view when I take my morning break and walk around the Texas Capitol grounds. Beautiful trees: a pink crape myrtle against the backdrop of a majestic pecan tree.

Two Trees, Pink and Green

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My view of the night sky. I took this photo on Monday, 24 June 2013, early in the morning as I walked to my office building. I took a moment to appreciate this chance encounter.