Susannah tries something different

Driving through Syracuse a few weeks back I saw this house. Something about it caught my eye and I imagined it with rain running down the horizontal boards. It intrigued me. So later I went back and took a picture of it. After some experimentation working with both Photoshop Elements and Macromedia Fireworks this is what I came up with. I kinda like it. And I like that sometimes the concrete-sequential me can be a little artistic.

Seeing Red(tails)

A couple of weekends ago Charlie and I traveled to Ithaca where we did lots of hiking and relaxing. On Sunday we stopped at Sapsucker Woods to check out the birds and hike the trails. This red-tailed hawk flew by several times, finally landing in the tree. I managed to get close enough to get good shots and hopefully edited out encroaching branches, etc. well enough so it's not obvious. I think this is the first time I've been close enough to see just how red those tails are!