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I AM NOT SHOUTING AT YOU, AS INTERNET ETIQUETTE WOULD IMPLY! FOR THE TIME BEING IN ORDER TO WRITE BLOG POSTS, I MUST USE ALL CAPS, AS I MUST USE ONLY MY RIGHT HAND. IN NOVEMBER 2017 I HAD A STROKE, APPARENTLY I DID NOT GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME AROUND AND HAD A SECOND AROUND CHRISTMAS! WHILE I CAN LOOK BACK NOW & MAKE FUN IN JEST; THERE WAS NOTHING TO JEST ABOUT AT THE TIME! LOOSING THE USE OF…

PLEASANT VIEW OLD ORDER MENNONITE CHURCH~JULY 2017

  Several Sunday’s ago, we had a very low humidity day, while this does not effect the photography, it does make for a much happier photographer. While Pleansat View is just that, it has a pleasant view in any direction you look, however being located at the top of a hill, your options for photography are very limited with a full churchyard of horse and buggies. There are not many options that…

MOUNTAIN VISTAS ~ELKTON, VIRGINIA

Recently I have started to take short drives around different area of my part of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, which happens to be the areas of Harrisonburg, Dayton, Bridgewater & Elkton. These towns and cities, are in the Counties of Rockingham, North Western Augusta, and Shenandoah in Virginia.

Unless you live in these areas, I do believe most people take the quickest route to their…

PHOTOGRAPHY & HOT SUMMER DAYS

    It is just so hard to feel motivated to do much at all outdoors when the heat and humidity is so high. One morning this week, due to a good nights sleep and air conditioning, I felt energized to get up early and go out and do some exploring around the country roads through the mountain hollows of easter Rockingham county, which means just close to home. It was 8 am when I left my…

BEAR LITHIA FARM STAND at BEAR LITHIA SPRING~ ELKTON VIRGINIA

  This morning I went to fill gallon jugs from Bear Lithia Spring, in Elkton, VA. It was so hot and humid, however I have been wanting to ask the owners permission that has the farm and farm stand next to the spring if I could take pictures of their stand and produce. The answer was yes.

The Farm Stand is owned and operated by Craig & Drenna Becker, a very nice Mennonite couple. It is nice to…

THE OLD ORDER MENNONITES OF DAYTON, VIRGINIA

LOOK BEYOND THE PICTURE, LOOK BEYOND THE WORDS

Sometimes, when words will not come, it is nice to just look at the photography, in quiet contemplation. Today, it is almost Silent Sunday. Words will not come easily for me, so I will post a selection of pictures, from which you can contemplate for yourselves the rural beauty of Dayton, Virginia.

  It is refreshing to see the quiet countryside, a…

PLEASANT VIEW OLD ORDER MENNONITE CHURCH~DAYTON, VIRGINIA

    One day last week I got up early and was in Dayton, Virginia at 6 am, taking pictures of Bowman’s Mill at Silver Lake. I was a beautiful day, lower temperatures in the 70’s with low humidity, what started out to be a couple hours of photography, ended up being nearly 11 hours!

From Silver Lake I drove back West of Dayton to Pleasant View Old Order Mennonite Church, the area in all…

BALCONY CONTAINER GARDEN JULY 1, 2017

  What I thought was going to be a dud year for the containter garden on the balcony, due mostly to the bizarre weather that we had this spring, weeks of darkness, the geraniums just set there begging for sunlight and warmer temperatures, I just kept my fingers crossed and hoped for the best.

I know having changed out all the soils in the containers helped tramendously, as the geraniums and…

BOWMAN’S MILL & SILVER LAKE ~ DAYTON, VIRGINIA

  The pictures in the post today are or Bowman’s Mill & Silver Lake, however they are only a small portion of the pictures I took yesterday, from 6am to 6pm yesterday all around Dayton back to Rawley Springs. Actually there were 318 pictures taken yesterday (enough to keep me busy i Lightroom for a good while)

I will be able to post about the Dayton, Virginia Old Order Mennonites, their…

A WALK IN THE PARK

WILDWOOD PARK BRIDGEWATER, VIRGINIA

Above – Aruncus and Blue Hosta

I know everyone must think that Wildwood Park in Bridgewater, VA, is the only park that I know to go to. It really does offer everything that you could possibly want to find in a restful and relaxing park setting. Beautiful green setting, a river, dam, waterfall, beautifully maintained walking and bike paths, flowers along the…

  Thanks to my good friend Bren Ryan, of Ryan Photography (United Kingdom) for her extreme patience with me, in  getting my Lightroom to Instagram Account set up, so that now I can share pictures/photography on Instagram. It was not hard to do, however when dealing with a not technologically advanced person (ME) it can be complicated.

You can find me on Instagram at

mitchellwebster6302

So far…

I like to experiment with flowers as everyone surely knows by now, I am enamered by the beauty deep within a flower, that we do not always see with the naked eye. We miss so much, of the intricate detail that shapes the bloosom from within. These things are small as the veins in the flower, leaves, stems and buds. The anthers, pistols and stamens. It is amazing what we see when we get closer in.

FLOWERS FROM THE CONTAINER GARDEN

This year we have had so many cloudy and rainy days, some flowers like the geraniums, which should be ramping up into constant bloom, due to warmer night temperatures in the upper 60’s and 70’s are just sitting idle, once in a while putting out a single bloom here and there.  So many cloudy/rainy days, the plants themselves are doing fine, but very few blossoms.

  There are some which seem…

BLACK AND WHITE CLOUDSCAPES

Last month in May we had some stormy skies, and I grabbed my camera and took these pictures, what I saw and what came out were two entirely different things. Fortunately in Lightroom I was able to bring back what I actually saw. I am sure they could have been processed better, I am just getting into converting images to black and white and there is a lot to learn or…

It is simply amazing what a different world comes to light when you take a simple subject, in this case a simple watercolor painting, an put on your extention tubes and look closely through the lens at what pictures pop out at you from within a simple watercolor painting.

You will find a new world of colors, textures, and layering that the normal field of vision will not detect. Often, you will…

WILDWOOD PARK–BRIDGEWATER, VIRGINIA

Geese in the Park

The other day I was looking at all the pictures in my Lightroom catalog, and realized that I had forgotten about all the pictures I had taken from June 2016, a beautiful day in which I had spent several hours meandering around throughout the park. I had take over 200 pictures that day! Even if I pick and choose carefully there are too many to put into one post.

I was lucky that…