This first pic was taken on the morning of October 17, 2010 of a local urban intersection down the street from where I live as part of my collage for the theme "My Day."
4 weeks later the same intersection shows the urban renewal taking place here. Once a grocery store but soon a movie and bowling megaplex complete with overpriced cocktails! 
The leaves change color and fall to the ground. Cool weather is now here and will soon change to cold weather. Too cold. How many days until season spring?
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In celebration of getting my G9 back from the shop I couldn't just take ONE pic for "My Day" but decided to take an entire day of pics. Here are 42 of My Day Friday October 15, 2010.This also marks the end of my 690 day weekend.
Just got word AND a tracking number! The G9 returns... soon... maybe in time for this weeks theme?
No, it's not Easter! A tradition when I was growing up was to put hard boiled eggs in pickled beets so they would turn purple. A lot of the time the beets were grown in our garden and then canned by my mom. It was always a favorite back then so I tried it again in my old age (but with store bought beets.) Delicious!
Elizabeth has been here for 170 years this month.
Although the tress are still green 
Tobico Marsh, located just north of Bay City, Michigan, and part of the Bay City Recreation Area, was designated as a registered National Natural Landmark in 1976 because of its large size, relatively undisturbed condition and variety of aquatic plant life. With nearly 2,000 acres of wetland woods, wet meadows, cattail marshlands and oak savannah prairies, Tobico Marsh is one of the largest remaining freshwater, coastal wetlands on the Great Lakes.
Home for rent. Open floor plan of approximately 1 square foot. Complete with cedar walls and a great view.
This bat home went up on my chimney this spring and still no renters. According to BatConservation.org:
- Where you mount your bat house plays a major role in the internal temperature. Houses can be mounted on such structures as poles, sides of buildings and tall trees without obstructions. Houses placed on poles and structures tend to become occupied quicker than houses placed on trees. (check)
- Should face south to southeast to take advantage of the morning sun and need to receive at least 6 to 8 hours of direct sunlight. (check)
-It is also advantageous to paint the house black to absorb plenty of heat. (yea, I don't think so)
- Should be mounted at least 15 feet above the ground, the higher the house the greater the chance of attracting bats. (check)
- Most houses used by bats are occupied in the first 1 to 6 months during the first summer the bat house was erected. (3 months to go)
- If bats do not roost by the end of the second summer, move the house to another location. (yea, I don't think so)
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Light from my lamp.
Something repetitious? Tomato plants! Especially the ones that produce the smaller kind like these here bite-sized St. Nicks. Part of the genus lycopersicon they are. Plant in full sun. Matures early.
A circle is a simple shape of geometry consisting of those points in a plane which are equidistant from a given point called the center. Being trained as a draftsman I had an instrument to make such a shape. So I did. 
I then noticed that the lunch I was frying was round in the middle. Two pics for the price of one this week!
Not a cloud in the sky, only the third quarter moon. A minimal sky makes for a perfect 4th of July. Happy Birthday U.S.A.
A pair of flags (U.S.A. and Michigan) on a cloudy day. This is the Wenonah Park "Friendship Ring" fountain in downtown Bay City (Michigan, U.S.A.) looking out over the Saginaw river. The water feature seems to have been suffering from a broken pump at the time of this photo but according to the The Bay City Times it was at the repair shop.
MY childhood games had to be pulled out of a basement cabinet for their photo opportunity. Makes me wonder where Operation went. Perhaps the trash?
Memorial Day on Main Street U.S.A.
All of a sudden the hood here was overrun by these Red Admiral butterflies. As another area blogger put it "they were pretty skittish" and that made me think "HEY, these butterflies were Jumpy." So here is my pic for JUMP! because soon after the click of my shutter this bug jumped and flew away.
Soft is the new spring growth on a Picea Glauca 'Conica' (the Dwarf Alberta Spruce) but the softness soon fades into prickly. This one was a Christmas gift back in 2005 and came complete with decorations and lights. Below is a full view.
The theme is green. So many things are green this time of year and I went with the obvious: the green of spring plants. It also follows the midweek post of early crops. So here are more early spring harvests from my garden (all green): spinach, mint, chives, thyme and oregano.
A first harvest of Cinco de Mayo radishes! I think usually I'm just planting seeds this time of year. Nothing like getting a head start. Sure, radishes aren't the usual Cinco de Mayo food choice but the cilantro and peppers aren't ready yet. It's TOO early in the season!
Nothing says spring like a dandelion. Sure, most probably think of crocuses and tulips and thunderstorms but dandelions are everywhere. Well almost everywhere! Of course there are none in MY yard so I had to go find a garden full of them. I won't mention names.
The Grecian Windflowers are one of the first plants up and about in the spring here near Detroit. Just in time to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day (and the 2nd annual celebration by This is Eric's Blog! click here for the first)
This week I didn't wait until Sunday afternoon to find a subject for the weekly theme! Good thing since here in Metro Detroit it looks like we're going back into winter for the weekend. At first I thought "bench" was a pretty lame subject but after looking at all the submissions in a row I changed my mind on that. Pretty cool to see all those different benches from all over the globe. 
I assume when they say Depth of Field (the range of distances within a scene that will record as sharp) as the theme of the week they mean a small DOF since a large DOF is just an in focus photo. For sDOF I present spring viloas from my backyard.
