shutterbug saturday
Shutterbug Saturday: Sky Gazing 2.0
Beauty when you look up. All photos are my personal collection © ~Vic
06-22-2018
06-27-2019
10-17-2019
The phone couldn’t capture the deep pinks.
11-12-2019
Shutterbug Saturday: Old Halloween Stuff
It’s finally October, home month of jack-o-lanterns, ghosties, ghoulies, witches (the cartoon type), bats, spiders, skeletons, and the like, for the upcoming Halloween. I love wandering around to get shots of local decorations, much like Christmas. This post, however, covers some of my old stuff…stuff collected over the years (remember email forwards?)…stuff I didn’t take, myself, plus…a really cute video from 2005. I have no idea who took these. ~Vic
Image file reflects 12-05-2000
Image file reflects 09-30-2001
Image file reflects 10-31-2001
Image file reflects 10-19-2002
Image file reflects 08-26-2007
Image file reflects 10-12-2008
Shutterbug Saturday: Training
My paternal grandfather was a firefighter, my brother-in-law is and my dad nearly was. I grew up going with my grandmother to my hometown’s fire department HQ, bringing lunch for my grandfather. When he retired, he worked dispatch.
As a Drivers License Examiner, I got to give road tests in firetrucks.
I was lucky to catch this. I was walking home from the local market. ~Vic
Training The Next Generation
Shutterbug Saturday: Wildlife
The deer in this town are so used to not being hunted, they will come out in broad daylight, eat, play and stare at you. Some are almost tame and you can get rather close to them. They’re cute but, they will mess up a garden if it is not properly secured. I learned the hard way not to plant tulips and I discovered that they like green/white Hosta but, not the green/yellow. They will not touch Narcissus. ~Vic
04-30-2019
05-22-2019
05-22-2019
The fuzziness makes it look like a painting.
05-22-2019
Shutterbug Saturday: Critter Collections 7.0
All Things Critter
All photos are my personal collection. ~Vic
Part I/Part II/Part III/Part IV/Part V/Part VI
Taken with my old Samsung Alias II.
Nature Preserve
Round Rock, TX
10-25-2008
05-06-2019
05-13-2019
Love the Ladybugs.
05-13-2019
He looks like a Skivvy Waver.
05-17-2019
05-19-2019
05-31-2019
Riverwalk
05-31-2019
Shutterbug Saturday: Ice Storm 2015
Continuing from yesterday’s post, this was an ice storm that occurred when I was in Examiner School. This area is in the Eastern part of the state, a half an hour due East of Fayettenam (Fayetteville/Fort Bragg) and 75 miles NNW of Wilmington. Basically, it’s in the middle of nowhere. It was all I could do to not bust my ass walking to class.
These and yesterday’s pix were taken with my old Samsung Alias II. ~Vic
02-17-2015
02-18-2015
Railroad Street Steakhouse
02-19-2015
Still feeling cooler? You’re welcome!
Shutterbug Saturday: Feathers 4.0
In my last post on March 2, I was talking about sitting under my Hackberry tree and getting pelted with debris from a little woodpecker above me. I tried to get some shots of him but, they weren’t clear enough. My S7 just doesn’t do well with distance. That’s OK. I have other stuff.
02-19-2019
04-16-2019
Shutterbug Saturday: Critter Collections 6.0
All Things Critter
All photos are my personal collection. ~Vic
Part I/Part II/Part III/Part IV/Part V
Coreopsis blooming in November.
11-04-2017
I think it is a grasshopper.
09-06-2018
At least, I think it is a daisy.
10-13-2018
He had places to go.
03-21-2019
This thing showed up during the rain storms.
It looks like a tape worm.
04-13-2019
I see these lizards all over the place.
They are quick.
05-06-2019
Cute green thing in the kitchen window.
05-10-2019
Tiny little moth.
05-11-2019
Shutterbug Saturday: Rogue Artistes 4.0
This will be the last in the graffiti series for a while until some new ones show up or I find artwork somewhere else. ~Vic
Part I
Part II
Part III
Riverwalk path.
05-26-2019
06-09-2017
06-01-2019
06-09-2017
06-01-2019
How apropos…
06-01-2019
This is the shed next to the house from the first post.
05-19-2019
It’s gone. New canvas for new art.
05-17-2019
Shutterbug Saturday: Rogue Artistes 3.0
The creative elves are back at it with more graffiti. If concrete or wood is bare, they have a canvas. All photos are my personal collection. ~Vic
Even man-hole openings need decoration.
04-15-2019
Maybe its the smell?
04-22-2019
This one must smell better.
05-07-2019
Covered walkway to Gold Park.
05-17-2019
Shutterbug Saturday: Critter Collections 3.0
All photos and video are my personal collection. I'm surprised some of these turned out as well as they did. The first six were taken with a Samsung Alias II…an old flip phone. ~Vic
Part I/Part II
06-01-2013
Spider was nowhere to be found.
10-23-2013
They love to hang upside down in bathrooms.
08-22-2015
10-31-2016
YUCK.
06-20-2017
I had forgotten that I had some videos of critters, too. I was trying to sing like a child, just being silly.
Clark was not impressed.
Shutterbug Saturday: Feathers 3.0
I love watching and listening to the birds. They are fun and fascinating. A few evenings ago, I was sitting in one of my Adirondack chairs I have in my yard. They are underneath a very large Hackberry tree. This tree is huge and old. As I was enjoying the sunset and journaling, I heard tapping…above my head. Then, I noticed dust-like material gathering in my lap, my pages and on my phone (and, no doubt, on my head). I looked directly above me, which was not an easy task in a high-back chair. Yes. It was a small woodpecker. This little thing had the entire tree to beat its beak into but, decided to do its routine…directly above me. I struggled to get shots but, I got a few. That will be for another post in the future.
Invasion of the Buzzards
03-07-2017
Sadly, all of those trees had to come down last year.
03-03-2013
But, a Cooper’s Hawk or a Sharp-Shinned, I’m not sure.
12-12-2008
Shutterbug Saturday: September Beauty
Flowers, critters and ‘shrooms for today.
My favorite place to sit.
Just hanging out.
Got the bee’s hiney. LOL!
Another shot of the Bumble I chased all over the yard.
Happy ‘shrooms on the hill.
~Victoria ❤
Shutterbug Saturday: Flowers For Everyone
Flowers for everyone!
That is one happy grasshopper.
I see you! Arizona Sun.
A cheery Rose of Sharon bush bloom.
Isolated pair of Black-Eyed Susans just hanging out.
This was a BIG, happy Hibiscus.
I followed that Bumblebee all over the place. It was hopping from Liriope to Liriope. I finally caught it in flight. You can just see its wings.
I wander all over my neighborhood snapping pictures with my Samsung stupidphone. The Bumble and the Liriope are in my yard.
~Victoria ❤
Shutterbug Saturday: Kitties
We have several neighborhood cats. Some are really, really nice and just want to be petted. Others…well, let’s just say I have a healthy respect for them.
Not a care in the world, this one. Local sweet Persian mix.
“I’m watching you…” Unknown Calico.
Sweet, sweet baby, missing a foot. Sweet Tuxedo ‘Gemini’.
“How dare you pet that other kitty!” A very unhappy Maine Coon mix…’Yow Ming’.
And, my Oliver…The Hemingway. He watches the world happen through the windows.
~Victoria ❤
