The place where I went for the wildflower photography workshop has a frog pond. Most of my workshop photos are blurry (grrr!), but I managed a few that weren’t.
Around the Frog Pond
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Rain Boots
Here are the rain boots worn by me and my fellow students at a wildflower photography workshop. It was a dark and stormy morning — lightning! thunder! wind! rain! — but by the time we wanted to venture outside for our first photography session, we had blue skies. It was still wet, however, so we donned our rain boots for most of the afternoon.
Wildlife Along The Trail
Back on the trail at McKinney Falls State Park . . .
Empress Leilia butterfly
Northern Cardinal
Rain lily with grasshopper
Prickly Pear blooms with guests
Spittlebug Foam. A spittlebug is the nymph phase of the Froghopper insect. It creates the foam for insulation and protection.
Scarlet Leather Flower, Take 2
After looking at other photos with textured backgrounds, I realized that if the background was mostly transparent, it would work with a foreground with a lot of detail. So I worked on the Scarlet Leather flower again, this time with rain drops as the background.
My first effort working with the flower photo wasn’t successful, that’s for sure.
Out of Sorts: Fiction Friday
The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
Photo copyright Jellico’s Stationhouse
Out of Sorts
Merv had felt out of sorts for days. Not feeling himself, as his grandfather would have said. He tried to laugh it off. “Well,” he mused, “if I’m not myself, who is?”
Sometimes he thought someone was following him but anytime he turned around to look, no one was there. Still, he couldn’t quite shake the feeling he was being watched.
As Merv left the pub to pedal home, his silhouette waited only a moment before mounting its own shadowy bicycle to follow, knowing there was nothing Merv could have done to prevent the outcome of their last ride together.
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As I schedule this story to post Friday morning, there are already 48 stories linked to the main page. To read other Friday Fictioneer stories based on this photo, select the smiley blue frog.
