I took the first photo during a sunset sometime in the spring. It's of a little bird nest in a tree in our front yard. I didn't even mean to do a silhouette photo, but I love happy accidents!
This was taken recently on one of our days at the park. Jax and Kaili were playing at the top of a hill, with the playground in the background. The rope pyramid thing you see is only the tippy top of it. At one point, there were so many kids swarming this thing, it made me so nervous watching them.. it's high up and so unsteady because it's all made of rope (except the pole in the center). Crazy how perspectives change as you get older. If I was 10, I'd be trying to swan dive off the top with no second thought to safety. Now that I think of it though, the rope is in some ways much safer than the steel and splintered wood jungle gyms we played on as kids, where the bottoms were lined with sand, gravel, or concrete. And I did flips off of those and I'm ok, I think. Anyway, what was I talking about?... ;)
After the playground, we went for a walk along a trail and I noticed a single little bird perched on this Tim Burton-esque looking tree in the middle of a field. The branches looked like a hand desperately reaching for the sun. I had to capture the image somehow and I don't think I did it justice at all. I think I need a better lens, not to mention some photography lessons.
So how have your summer ventures been so far?
Such beautiful photos Ngan!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I often think how did we survive with all those concrete floors and unsafe parks! :)
I used do so many things that, if my mother knew... it's amazing how I'm still alive and in one piece! ehehe
Thanks, Ana! I know what you mean... now that I have kids and then think back on the things I did as a kid, I'm hoping and praying that they don't follow suit! But already, my little girl is a daredevil! I'm so not looking forward to her teens!
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