Look Up, Look Down

Yesterday I discovered my daffodils were starting to emerge from the cold, damp earth. Today, after the never-ending rain finally stopped, I snapped a photo of the sky starting to brighten. I've had enough of rain and gloominess and hope the sun starts shining.

Here are my up and down photos.

Look Up, Look Down

Today is a beautiful day but still very cold--20 degrees F. When I woke up this morning it was 10 degrees F so it did warm up some.

My looking up photo today is of the gorgeous clear blue sky. The looking down photo is of lichen and moss covering the trunk of the maple tree on the front lawn.

Look Up, Look Down

I decided to participate in a photography exercise on Helena's Creative Maven blog to improve my photographing skills. The exercise is to look up and photograph sometime and then look down and do the same thing. Helena does marvelous photography and if just a little bit of that rubs off on me, then my scrapping will improve exponentially.

So my choice for UP is a view of the sky looking up through our trees:

...and my DOWN choice is my pot of Hens and Chick plants as they appear in the winter:

They may not be brilliant choices but our yard is pretty muddy now and, at least, it is a start.