My family and I took a sunny walk on a crisp, cold day at the University of Kentucky Arboretum. A bright blue cloudless sky, good company and picturesque scenery made up for the chill. It was a sight filled with horizontal lines, stately trees, enticing paths, and vertical shadows. Enjoy.
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I love the naked trees in winter. They are beautiful.
Thanks Ann. I think so too. The leaves stripped away allow us to see so much more.
You captured the essence of a crisp winter day in those pictures. Lovely!
Thanks Winsome!
I agree with both Ann and winsome – beautiful trees and the essence of a wonderful winter day – no snow yet, but you can feel and smell it’s coming. You are quite the photographer, HG.
On another note, your new look is certainly RED! lol
Thanks Sandra for your kind words.
I’m wondering if the red is TOO red? I wanted it to look festively Christmas-like, but I may have to experiment on toning it down a bit.
Well, I wouldn’t say it’s too bright a red, but when your site popped up on my screen, I reared back in my chair and reached for my sunglasses 😛
Well, I wouldn’t want you to have to use your shades to read my blog Sandra. I just switched it to a more toned down red. Of course, now it’s bordering on pink, which I don’t really want, so I may have to play with it a few more times to get it right.
Yeah, a sort of scarletty pink. Here’s a suggestion – why not make the link color green instead of blue and go back to your original color. It looked better than this does for a Christmas theme. I’m just gonna keep my big mouth shut and enjoy the 12 days of Christmas blogs 🙂
I’m going to try this red theme option for a while and see if I like it. I’m not sure I like this one though, because there’s still a lot of pink. I guess I’ll go back to the other one if I don’t like this one, but I don’t know how to change the link color to green. Maybe you can talk me through it.
I don’t know how to do it with WordPress. I thought you might know, since you seem to be so computer savvy. I use Dreamweaver when making sites from scratch, and it just has the tool to change link color. However, as I posted elsewhere, I like this theme very much, since the main links are now white. The small text date and time are blue, but you hardly notice them.
Wow, I’m glad you think I’m computer savy Sandra. I like to think that I am, until I talk to someone 20 years younger than me, and suddenly realize there’s a lot I still don’t know. I’ll have to poke around in the menus some day and see if I can figure it out, or ask one of the WP “happiness engineers.”
We used to live in Lexington. The Arboritum was nice, and I love those old stone fences.
Too bad you weren’t still there – I could have visited you. We liked the Arboretum. We also walked a trail that used to be part of an old farm, but alas, I didn’t bring the camera.
you need a plain background in order to read the text Donna 🙂
Yes, I just tried a photo one for about a minute, and that didn’t work at all!
Ahh, KY, my home! I viewed the photos and got homesick! Lovely. 🙂
I’m glad I could show you a touch of home Cecelia!
Lovely photo- I have to learn how to do a slide show. I like to get outdoors all year long, though miss the cycling in winter.
Thanks Lisa. I’m missing the cycling too – I’m trying to make up for it with spin class, but just not quite the same.
BTW, the slide shows are easy. Click on “insert photo” – the camera icon, load the photos from your computer. Now your photos are in a gallery. Click “show” to add captions, tags, etc. Once you have the photos the way you want, at the bottom of the gallery is an option to insert slideshow. It will insert where you left the cursor in your post. Probably WP help can talk you through it better than I did here, but that is the gist of it.
Vibrant pictures, as always!
Thanks Sajib, as always!
I could feel the crispness of the day, just by looking at your pictures. Great job!
Thanks for your delightful comments Susan.
Good post… Just killing some time rubbaging around and found your page. Great looking blog. I’ll have to add the page to come back and see what’s new. Cheers
Thanks. Glad you stopped by. I just took a peek at your blog too – you have some stunning photos.