See ya later summer.

In a little less than 24 hours we will leave another summer behind. For some areas of the country they see little change from one season to another. In our area we see dramatic change. Some like the change; some do not. In Chicago we really don’t have a choice. You deal with it. We also look forward to those days in the middle of winter that provide the optimism that spring can’t be far away. It might be in November it might happen in February, it might not happen at all. But those are the times when “hope springs eternal.” For some reason, it usually happens when baseball spring training happens and then we freeze our you know what’s off huddling in the stands in Wrigley Field or “the Cell.” (Nice name huh?)

We had an odd summer here in Chicago. It forgot to show up. We didn’t have any of the hot sweltering days, high humidity levels, or vicious thunderstorms. We had mild days, reasonable humidity and rain. Oh well there’s always next year. Funny we say the same things about our sports teams.

For me summer has always been my favorite season. The days are long, the weather is warm, and you can live inside or outside your home depending on what you want to do. That’s not the case in the winter.

Now we’re heading into fall. Probably the most beautiful season as leaves burst out to expose their “real” colors. The air has a smell that only fall can bring-- it makes you want to be in the woods (hearing the crunching of dried leaves beneath your feet), or spend time in one of the many parks we have in our area, or experience one of the greatest lakes that is attached to our city. To miss the color of the season is to miss one of nature’s most explosive displays. I love this time of the year. It also produces great photos.

The photo above was a perfect fall day. At a B&B in Galena, IL the water was still, the day was drawing to an end, and the camera was shooting and having trouble keeping up with the number of pictures I was demanding it take. This was one of those times when I couldn’t stop taking pictures because I knew fall was going to be around for a short period of time. I was not going to miss this one.

So as we see summer become a memory, I am going to spend time capturing the season---one precious photo at a time through the lens of my Nikon camera.

I hope you do the same whether you have a camera or not.

Thanks for stopping by.