When the children go out for playtime in the backyard, it is often a good opportunity to get pictures of them  in action. This time however, I tried to look for some other subjects and viewpoints, and happened to find some interesting things to photograph on a sunny, Waco, Texas morning.

This locust carapace attached to a leaf was intriguing to me and the children. My second daughter wanted to bring it inside, but we decided a picture of it would suffice.

After a good deal of climbing, this snail had finally reached the end of the line.

Some pretty, lacy fungus adorned this stump.

I thought the bark on this tree made an interesting pattern, which is even more pronounced in this high-contrast black and white version.

I played with the color in this photograph of a swing. It already looked lonely and isolated since the kids were off doing other things, but now it looks even more desolate. What do you think?

 

This alien landscape is actually the children’s sandbox, which happens to be filled with Crayola brand green sand. Of course it has also attracted a sizable quantity of  pebbles, leaves, and other things from the yard.

The pockmarks are from water drops from rain or the sprinkler.

It is almost impossible to get Daisy, our Austrailian Shepherd, to be still for a photograph. Fortunately, I was able to pan at the right speed to get her face in focus. The motion blur is quite representative of the way she lives her life.

The most compelling views in the backyard, however, are not sand, snails, and empty swings, but children playing, expecially in this case, when an older child shares a ride with a younger one.

This girl “checks her six” while riding her tricycle up and down the driveway.

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