Here is yet another shot of the old apple tree behind my garden. I took this early this morning with my Nikon coolpix, using the night landscape setting. The moon was overhead, and lots of stars were still out. As usual around here, the crows were flying about, checking to see what went on during the night. The color this morning was to the southwest of my garden, over toward the ocean.

Early one morning last month we had a storm. That is kind of unusual for Maine, especially in the fall. Most of our storms come in the late afternoon. I had my camera ready to catch some lightning streaks, but caught the rising sun hitting the treetops across the street instead.

It is cloudy this afternoon, but the day started with a splash of color. I was in the middle of my cereal when I looked out the window, saw the sky, and dashed out to take a couple shots. I have had this haiku written a couple of weeks and have been waiting to get a good shot of the tree.

People around here don’t seem to like choke cherry trees very much, but I do. Besides providing food for the birds in the summer and some airy flowers, they look wonderful under the snow, and wearing nothing at all!

I took this shot in the fall when we were on the way to New Hampshire. The building shape put me in mind of the schoolhouse quilt pattern. Today, I decided to use my Corel program to see if I could make anything that looked like a quilt with the barn. First, I put the photo through the watercolor filter to make it softer, than duplicated it enough times to make a quilt. Behind the blocks, I tried several colors before I found the look I wanted.

Then, I used the GIMP program to clothify the photo, and to add a shadow. The whole thing took less than half and hour, and was fun to do. This would be a great way to test out a new pattern with different color combinations.