Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: white pine

Yesterday morning was so pretty.

I planted three small white pines--two side-by-side in the front, the other near the yard's back corner--early in 1992, hoping they'd eventually grow to reasonable size. (Small, indeed--I carried them home in my Chevy Nova. Took three trips.) They've grown to be fairly substantial trees, and I'm satisfied. The trees sat in the wind tunnel for a week or so before I found time to plant them. A pair of wrens figured they were fair game, and started to build a nest in one of the trees. They got quite upset when I moved their home into the yard....

So they say....

...like trees, and power lines, and pickup trucks, and hips....

It didn't rain a lot last spring, which was generally good for my photography but not so good for my neighbors' crops. Or my yard. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 83 Title of " roll :" Birds Other photos taken on 5/26/2012: The Daily Flower Census--36 pix--found the Spirea'd nearly packed things in, the rose bush I treated as part of the garden tour , and a bumble bee plundering Joan's Sage.

Except for the lack of color, my 366 Snaps pix for the day looked a whole lot like my daily flower census pix.... ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 22 Title of " roll :" Around the Yard Other photos taken on 4/16/2012: The flower census consisted of 25 photos, with the Nikon 1. I also took 20 photographs of the sunset, using the Cybershot.

"Books and Flowers" I called the folder I used to file the day's daily-project pix, which pretty much describes the group. Except that this tree--one of three white pines I planted twenty years ago--sneaked into the set. I was still fighting with the camera, as most of the outdoor shots were badly overexposed. The overexposure worked fine for the tree, but didn't flatter the daffodils and tulips. ========= This particular camera has a damaged sensor, which basically forced me to frame all my April photographs on the assumption that I'd be cropping the pic. You can see just a hint of the damage in the upper left corner of this image. The damage is not the reason I dislike the camera. But it is the reason I stopped carrying the camera around. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 22 Title of " roll :" Books & Flowers Other photos taken on 4/6/2012: I took my V1 to the Lansing Lugnuts Opening Day game . Also on this date: I posted a sort-of-review of my Nikon 1 V1 . I'd fully planned to do a followup in July or August, but life intervened. By the time life had settled down a bit, I didn't see the point of writing anything detailed about a product the manufacturer was clearly phasing out.