some really cool military photos...

There was 65 of these posted to my friends Facebook page...I chose my favorites. I thought they were pretty cool and wanted to share.   

a little bit of peace in an otherwise crazy world...

Things globaly are so nuts right now, that you some times just want to disappear. One thing I like about living in this area, are all the natural resources.. don't get me wrong, Florida has its share too.
I guess it is because every thing here is new to us, eveyday there is a new adventure to be had.

We found this park, lots of hiking trails and one heck of a large lake. The boys absolutly love it because of all the bridges it has.
It is nice to take some time, get away from the chaos..and take a deep breath. So, with camera in hand one afternoon we headed out. Photography is my passion so here are some pics :

One day we will rent a canoe

 

One of the many bridges

 

I like to stand on the lake bank, and stare at this island

Fall is in the air...

Some sort of valve. Another thing I thought looked cool.

I think these old steps are pretty cool

One of many trails to the lake


 

Arrow Shot

One of the features I have on my new camera is "Continuous Snap". Senior and I have been using this feature while shooting the boys baseball swing so we can show them what they are doing wrong and right.
So, this past weekend Senior got the idea for me to do a continuous snap while he shoots an arrow from about 20 yards from the target.
After some editing this is what the final product is :

Pretty Cool Uh ?

-JUGM

Today.....

We got the kids off to school, and met up with our good friend DUKE for a truck stop breakfast. Then off to the out door range to do a little cleaning up and some shooting.. Since ole STEPHEN had a itch this week, SENIOR, DUKE and I thought we would get together and scratch it...too bad Stephen wasn't there...that pesky work stuff got in the way..lol

Honestly folks..Can you ever go wrong with a good warm breakfast from a truck stop? 

Recent rains has the ground saturated, so we had to park and walk down,  Senior looked out across the large pasture and yelled "Coyote" ! or was a it deer? It was so far off we couldn't tell, so I grabbed my fancy new camera with the 42x zoom,  It stood still and posed for a pic, Yep!  Coyote: 

 

 

It then scampered in to the woods, Senior and Duke both said they had a ammo round with the coyotes name on it...

 

While the boys worked, I explored with  my camera. I love all things rustic, and love them even more in black and white, some I used the color filter selection..which is kind of cool to have :

 

 

 



 

"Why does this crazy lady keep snapping pictures" ?

I looked up and saw this ole hive..I immediatly thought of PioneerPreppy:

The Range all nice and cleaned up:

Then it was on to the fun stuff..today I shot my Bodyguard 380 and my M&P 22
The boys brought some of their toys and shot as well, mostly hand guns..remember the more you shoot, then more you got to clean...lol

 

Pet Preps and Other Pics

Some times we get laxed when thinking about our four legged family members If a natural or man made disaster should occur. Ideally if we needed to bug out I would love to take the dogs with us for extra security, or God Forbid we needed them for a food source. So, Senior and I decided to start being a little more diligent in prepping for them as well. We purchased some 5 gallon buckets and gamma lids. Then stocked up on 55# bags of food :

 

              We tried to get a pic of the doggies facing the camera, but no one wanted to cooperate...

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Now on to other stuff. Last Thursday NASA launched the ATLAS communications rocket, We use to go outside and watch the Space Shuttle launches all the time, and have missed the activity since ole "you know who" had the program shut down...

So we take what we can get.  We are approx. 100 + miles from the Cape, so the initial pic looked like a little red dot , then I did some photo editing and this is the end result...thought it came out pretty cool:

 

Last evening high clouds rolled in to make for some nice sunset shots:

 

 

Almost looks like the woods are on fire:

 

Today in Pics

For a mid October day, it was quite hot. Senior and I were busy trimming bushes around a substation. When I say bushes, I actually mean small trees, they were so high we needed a ladder to reach the top.  Then you curdle in pain from holding the gas powered hedge trimmers over your head.

As I was holding the ladder for him, I peered through the entanglement of branches and leaves and saw a small abandoned birds nest. Probably a mockingbirds former home. They are in abundance here and very aggressive.

 

Let the dogs out and looked on one of our patio chairs to find a ladybug sunning itself...

Aren't they suppose to be lucky?

Picked myself one of my Bi-Color roses, they smell like grapefruits...

 

Waiting in the car pickup line, I saw a train had just come through, I knew this to be true because it left its tracks .. lol

 

 

In True SUNNY BROOK FARM  fashion I stopped near the school to take a pic of this old barn that sits on the side of the road.. I love all things rustic.

 

 

While my parents were visiting, I caught "Jack the Cat" staring me down with his crossed eyes. Okay so the picture from my phone is a bit grainy, maybe one day the Camera Gods will surprise me with a super fancy camera..  

I am sure he was saying "What are you looking at? Havent you ever seen a crossed eyed cat before" ?

 

 

-JUGM