Windmills from the Blackland Prairie are offered tonight.  The opening photograph is from this evening, a Waxing Gibbous moon, at 72.5% visibility.   Others are just what they are.

Photographs from last weekend at the Hamburger Fundraiser at St. Peter Lutheran Church in  Walburg, Texas.  

It’s a sure bet most of you view these posts on a smartphone screen, rather small for viewing some things.  These daily walk photos usually begin on the week’s first walk, but this time the opening photograph is from Thursday morning, when an acrobatic squirrel flew from one place to another.  What if these daily walk offerings were only posted here?   Facebook and Instagram followers might not like it.  Visiting a personal site takes a little extra work, doesn’t it?

Tonight’s sunset approaches in Circleville, Texas.  That’s all for this evening, friends.

This was taken over a month ago.  Sometimes these things just sit for a while.   Taylor’s train yard, when the evening Amtrak heads south toward Austin.

Farmers can often be seen working well into the night around this area of the Blackland Prairie.   The photo with the combine is seen not far from the Samsung Semiconductor plant site in Taylor.  

Princess, owned by a dear friend, is  a Texas Longhorn documented off and on for years.   Princess, however, isn’t always cooperative.   When seeing the camera she’s often turned her back and moseyed off.  The end of a photo session.  When visiting my friend this week, however, she was more agreeable.   Princess is priceless!

Yet another moon photograph, this one from Tuesday night as the Waxing Crescent moon, at 11.5% visibility, appeared over Taylor’s Immanuel Lutheran Church.

There’s been a good bit of social media posts regarding the issue of power lines in photographs.   Using current  tools available  it’s  a relatively simple matter of removing them from scenes.  In the world  of traditional photojournalism this is a major no-no.   Most of the folks being followed aren’t journalists, seeing no issue with “Photoshopping” things out of a scene.   Even if you’re not a photojournalist, do you see why this is disturbing?   Can the so-called negative be transformed into a positive?  The opening photograph calls attention to power lines.   The other two shots, from tonight, offer a scene where power lines are present.  The wider shot shows a utility pole and power lines, but the tighter version crops out the power lines.   Find a way to make things work.

From Monday evening, north of Taylor.  Almost didn’t see it.   A Waxing Crescent moon, at 5.9% visibility.