The moon....

Taking pictures of the moon when you dont have one of those fancy SLR camera and interchangeable lenses and all that fancy stuff, can be a challenge! But I am learning to squeeze all I can out of my little camera. I took some of these when the moon was full early this month.

Starting to see the man in the moon.

Most of the pics looked like a car headlight LOL it sure was bright!

This one I like, the more I slow the camera down the grainier they seem to get, I have been playing with all the settings I can think of, both manual and auto on this little camera, and there are a lot! My problem is remembering which setting I used and which one I like!

The sliver moon from earlier in July.

So I keep experimenting and taking lots of pictures and having fun doing it! I want to take a digital camera class, but then I might learn I am not supposed to break the rules LOL.

More images from the fair....

These little tiny baby goats are so cute, they wouldnt hold still long enough to get any decent pictures of them. They were born Tuesday, and the fair opened on Wednesday.


Meg and David petting one of the little buggers.

There was a baby Alpaca too, they are so soft and sweet natured.

This red one is a pretty color.

Turkeys strutting their stuff.

I caught the sunset on this tractor, thought it looked cool.

The campground where the 4-H and other folks camp for the 5 days of the fair.

This was one of the acts out in the midway, she was doing rope tricks.
I hate to say it, but her act was really kind of lame, oh well she had a big audience LOL

More goats, lots of babies.

Spotted sheep.

More sheep.

Goat showing.

These girls were waiting for their class, she kept kissing her goat but I couldnt catch it, darn it LOL.

And they were doing Trail class, and jumping with the horses, I didnt get out to the arena to watch. The gal in the green is Jen, she was one of my 4-H kids when I had a club, I actually took over her dads club when he wanted to quit. Now its come full circle and she is a club leader. This mare is her mare Imp, the same one she rode in 4-H herself, now her niece in riding her.

Macro Monday....

I have a few pictures for Macro Monday. I had so much fun getting these in the Midway at the Fair. Anyone for a Rubber Ducky?


This little monkey caught my eye, LOL. Just too cute!

And the Frogs! I wanted one!

Sunday Stills, Clouds....

This one has been fun, it has been cold and rainy here, so we have had a lot of clouds.
These first few are taken at the house, the clouds are pretty cool looking! I have been taking cloud pictures for a week, these are some of my favorites.


Blue sky waring with the clouds.



Clouds framed in the Maple tree and the firs.





Clouds behind a midway ride at the fair.

I love this, the cloud almost looks like eyes watching.

Clouds are always fun, never the same thing twice.

OK I had to add a note here, this cloud looks like a

giant monkey face! LOL I didnt notice until after I

Posted.

This is looking Southeast up the Columbia River Gorge, from the Skamania County fair. It was cool and cloudy and windy when I went up to the fair on Friday.

Fair pictures

Skamania County Fair, Stevenson Wa, August 2009. This is the 101st fair!
These little girls are what the fair is about, to me. The one on the right talked to me a little, the one on the left was to shy, their Dad was standing right there. They are primary or Junior 4-Hers.
I asked her if her chicken was a Silkey she nodded her head, I asked her if it was a baby and she said "Yes she two" I assume two months old LOL she is so cute, and posed for my pictures.




Turkeys.

Some good looking Market calves, 4-H, Angus. Angus is the most popular breed around here. I believe the target weight for the fair is 1100-1300lbs. They sell them at the Livestock Market sale on Saturday. In the Market sale the kids sell the market project animals that they have raised over the year. Market Beef, hogs, goats, and the turkeys and pens of 3 ducks, or chickens. The market goats are usually a Boer or Boer cross, they have become really popular around here.

This is the Fair trolley, it takes people around the grounds, and out to the parking lot.

Quilts in the exhibit hall, it looked very nice this year. I love the quilts, they all were beautiful.

We watched the Round Robin Showmanship contest. They have all the kids in 4-H that won Champion and earned reserve champion in showmanship, show almost every animal in a round robin contest.

This is one of the horses, each participant brings out the animal that the won with.

This picture shows the pig and a sheep, and in the back a meat goat.

They showed a horse, a cow, a dairy goat, a meat goat, sheep, a pig, and a pygmy goat, each kid showed every animal. Its a lot of fun to watch, seeing the horse kids show livestock can be very entertaining and vice versa. You wouldnt think that the livestock kids would be afraid of a horse, but sometimes they are! And our horse girls are scared of some of the livestock, especially the pigs. It is a fun contest and the winner and reserve get a silver buckle that says "Master Showman".

Looking out toward the midway from the livestock arena.

The midway.

Meghan with a tiny baby goat, born on Tuesday. Shortly after this the goat started squalling and had to be put back with Mama.

The Columbia Gorge in the background is always beautiful, even on a cloudy day. It was pretty cold up there and a good breeze blowing. Sweatshirt weather.

The Gorge Girls drill team preformed, most of them are riders from the WAHSET team and some parents and siblings thrown in. Here they are getting ready to go into the arena and warm up.

They did a night ride with glow sticks all over the horses. Pictures didnt turn out very good in the dark, but I thought this one was pretty cute.

I will post some more fair pictures on Tues.

Going to the Fair....

I am going to drive up to the Skamania County Fair today. Planning on taking lots of pictures. They have a "Capture the Fair" photo contest tomorrow, if I get a good one or two maybe I will go back up and enter them?

Hummers and Whats he thinking?

This is about halfway zoomed in to where the little bugger perch's.


What is life like? being a 2oz or less bird?



During the heat they werent so active, I can hear them start buzzing around and chirping/squeaking at each other at around 5 AM. That reminds me I need to check their feeders.

His little threat display cracks me up, "I am such a tuff bird"

And Teddy, he looks so innocent....

Not! LOL, What is he thinking?

He can be a sneaky little guy.