Author: Steve

Always good for deer spotting.

Buff-bellied Hummingbird.  Although we’re looking at it from the back, so we can’t see the belly.

We were young.  We were on a date.

At Knott’s Berry Farm there were gift shops.  There was a crazy miner’s cabin where water would (appear to) flow uphill.  A carousel.  We rode it together.  There were souvenir photo stands where you could dress up in period costumes for a memorable shot.  I saw a stand that was cast as a wedding chapel.  I suggested we could get a wedding photo.

Judy declined.  She was not interested in “pretending” to get married.  It wasn’t a subject to be taken lightly.

I was surprised.  And impressed.

Now my first reaction/impression when I see something most beautiful or amazing, is not wonder, as much as “I wonder if it’s real”.  I don’t get to go straight to appreciation, without first wondering if I’ve been tricked.

Austin trip

This is a photo at the rest area on the way there.

This is a photo at the rest area on the way home today.

I’m not suggesting the trees changed from one day to the next, just photographs of different sections of the rest area.  The many moods of oak trees.