Heritage Park // Leaf Dance Photography

I've posted photos from "the park" before, as some of you may remember last summer and fall, but Heritage park is different in that it has a large body of water; a huge, blue, shining lake that simply fascinates me, whereas the other park only has a little bitty creek.
Living in the landlocked state of Kansas, I don't get the oppourtunity to shoot photos of water very often, and that, coupled with the spacious, golden, open fields, is what makes this park so particularly exciting!

It's almost always windy at this park, and I'm quite sure I could just sit there for hours, watching the wind sculpt the waves into different textures and patterns...

Taking one of the many curving paths through the park, you'll  find a wealth of shadows; slipping between the tawny gold grass, stretching far down the path, and flickering over your feet as you step along.

I know many people consider winter a boring, colorless month and their cameras sit unused during much of it, but for me, I consider it a challenge, a test to see if I can find the beauty amid the blah.
And indeed, only in the midst of winter can you find the silver gray of tree trunk and branches, set against the pure blue sky.
 The tawny oranges, tans, golds and sandy yellows in the field still around from autumns' showing, come back to life when the late afternoon sun beams through each blade.
In winter, you appreciate the evergreen trees ever so much more, taking in the unique structure of their "leaves" as they differ from deciduous trees.
In the summer you can't see the branches but for all the leaves, the fields are an almost uniform green, and the evergreens often get overlooked in favor of the more vibrant deciduous trees around them.
Not that I'm against the abundance of green (quite the opposite in fact!), but "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven", (Ecclesiates 3:1)  and I do try to be content in every season, of life and the great outdoors. =)

Portraits by the bridge?
Well of course!
My lovely sister is so obliging.... =)

What do you think of winter?

 Do you get out and find things to photograph?

God Bless,

                                            Jenny

You gotta to see this!

We interrupt this weeks Colorado programing to bring you :

A Rainbow!

I know, awesome right??! I didn't know my camera even had the capability to capture that! I thought when I zoomed in real close, the color would fade.
On the contrary!
The sun was a just the right angle at 8:40 a.m. for us to see a rainbow in the sprinkler, so of course I grabbed my camera . . . and it just got better and better!

And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations : I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh."
 ~ Genesis  9 : 12 - 15

And as I read that just now, it hit me exactly why he needed to make the promise at all. You and I are used to rain, it's normal. But for these people, this was the first time it had ever rained, and it destroyed almost all mankind and livestock! The next time it started raining they would think "Oh no! God is going to flood the earth again!". So God made that promise to show them that He was not going to flood the earth ever again, and they needn't worry next time H2O molecules fell from the sky.

Well, have a good evening!
(Or morning, depending on when you read this, =D )

       ~Jenny

Colorado - Bear lake

Don't worry, we didn't run into any bears. =P
Though we did see:

A lake!

Yeah, I know, big surprise.   =D
(Though it would have been very surprising if we went to bear lake and there wasn't a lake!)

My loverly sister   =)

The water . . . you would not believe how clear it was!

I mean, it was completely crystal clear!



And then from other angles it was that picturesque, sparkling, sapphire.

    A huge rock  near the path . . .  (I just had to go climb it)

Our picture on said rock.

Some super sparkly grass . . .

A spider web

    Lichen . . .

And that furry rodent we call a squirrel!

That's all folks!

Have a splendiferous day!