Mother’s Day was a perfect Sunday to stroll in downtown New York — and it was fun snapping photos along the way. I had two cameras with me, my Panasonic for images I wanted to capture in RAW format for later work, and my iPhone for photoblog images. View more
A day in Washington, DC. We started out on The Mall, where this mounted policewoman and her horse were greeting tourists.
The Mall itself is under construction, which definitely takes away much of the majesty of our nation’s capital.
I visited the National gallery while Eddie and Brian went to the Air & Space Museum. I went to see and exhibit of street photography and another featuring drawings by Picasso. Photography wasn’t allowed in the galleries I visited, but on the way I passed through a gallery of Degas ballet dancers.
the National Gallery is a class act — even in the anteroom of the ladies’ bathroom.
iPhone photo, edited & uploaded on the iPad
We are camping at Pohick Bay Regional Park in Lorton, Virginia – just west of Alexandria and Ft. Belvior. It is a pretty setting, and peaceful this time of the year, though I expect it gets really crowded in the summer. The park is on Pohick bay, a small body of water that flows into the Potomac River.
iPhone photo, edited & uploaded on the iPad
We happened upon this draft horse when stopped in Walmart while visiting my mother in New Bern, North Carolina.
iPhone photo, edited & uploaded on the iPad.
We are staying at a KOA Campground in New Bern, NC. We stay here whenever we are in our motor home when we visit my mother. The campground is on the Neuse River, and every time we stay here I take a picture of these three dead trees jutting out of the river.
iPhone photo, edited & uploaded on the iPad.
I thought the paint job on this RV made for an interesting shot. (and the sky really was that blue)
iPhone photo, edited & uploaded on the iPad.
This tree, outside the Lazydays Repair Lounge, looks forlorn, a bit how we feel. We left here Wednesday, and planned to be heading north today, but last night Eddie discovered a gasket leak in our toilet, so we are back! Not happy campers.
iPhone photo, edited & uploaded on the iPad.
We’ve been spending some time at Lazydays RV Service while they do a few repairs on our motor home — ah, the joys of RVing. I thought I would share a few RV themed photos. All were taken with my iPhone and minimally processed in iPhoto on the iPad.
An RVer from New York.
RVers, who are mostly us older folks, have a fondness for stuffed animals.
And for others, some flowers make a statement in the front window.
The animals even show up in some of the vehicles pulled by motor homes.
To kill some time, we did some window shopping of high-end motorhomes. I pulled out a draw in one of them, and it was filled with eight remotes!
This photo shows the living area of a 45', $700,000 RV. The view is from the kitchen area towards the front.
This coach has a lot of twos. Two huge TV's in the front, and two bathrooms. A half bath in mid-coach, and this rear bath, which extends into a walk-in closet large enough to be a small room.
I have a few more butterfly photos to post, but they can wait until we get home. As we are traveling in our RV for the next two weeks, I am going to try to find one unique or interesting photo to post each day – although today’s photos are neither. My potted kitchen garden has been doing so well that I did not want to abandon it, so it is making the trip with us. Of course it means that every morning I have to remember to carry the two pots inside and put them in the shower stall. When we reach our destination, outside they go for the night. Durning the next couple of days, while the RV is undergoing repairs, the herbs will be stuck inside, maybe even over night.
iPhone photos posted via iPad
Taking photos of butterflies inside prepared enclosures may be cheating, as far as nature photography goes, but it is such fun to have access to so many butterflies at one time. A Butterfly House is set up every year during the Flower and Garden Festival at EPCOT. The Festival typically lasts from late February to early May, and last year the weather was very cold, and the butterflies were barely moving. This year it had to be almost 100° in the enclosure, and there were butterflies everywhere — Monarch, Julia, and Zebra Hliconian.