94/365 Captured Moments - Rainy Days

We had heavy rains this weekend so there was no camera time except to take progress shots of a couple of  paintings that i'm working on.  When I go out to shoot I usually come home with 400 to 500 images, only a handful are worth showing, a large amount get deleted, but there the others I keep as possible paintings, needless to say I have a lot of possible paintings. :)

Deroche, BC

83/365 Captured Moments - Misty Rain Falls

Capture the Moment

Carry the Day,

Stay with the chase as long as you may.

Follow the dreamer, the fool, and the sage,

Back to the days of the innocent age

"Dan Fogelberg"

58/365 Captured Moments - A Watercolor Painting by Mother Nature

The rains are falling again, a soft thrumming sound as the raindrops land on the water and surrounding grounds. The still water and reflections become distorted creating texture, and leaving us with an abstract impression of trees.  

A Watercolor Painting by Mother Nature

46/365 Days of Captured Moments - And The Rains Fall

The rains are falling....... and i'm OK with that......when it's raining I feel no guilt for staying inside spending the day painting, reading, or organizing my thousands of images.

28/365 Grateful - Catkins & Rain Drops.

The rain is falling much heavier now then it was this morning when I shot this pussy willow, the catkins heavily laden with rain drops clinging to their soft silky grey fur.  As a photo shoot expedition the day was a wash out, I came home wet, cold, and hungry.  But I did find a new place to explore, and I caught a glimpse of a raptor, he screeched loudly at me as he flew to the top of a tall fir tree such an eerie sound.

Of Interest:
The willow (Salix genus) is the original source of one of the most prescribed medicines throughout history  the aspirin.
Perhaps long before the Greeks, the American Indians also used willow to relieve fevers and pain. In the 1800s, scientists isolated the key pain-killing ingredient – salicin – from the willow, and in 1899, the Bayer Company, in Germany, was the first to market aspirin tablets.

http://www.wildones.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/BeyondTheBirdfeederPart6.pdf

17/365 Grateful Water

After seventeen days of dry weather the rains have begun.