Oh Deer, it's Rural Thursday!

The deer posed for me the other night.  I stopped the car and captured these images.  Mr. VZ told me if I whistled the deer would look right at me.

The fawns still have their spots.  

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Rural Thursday

The original image is a barn along Paine Road in Amador County.  My go-to spot for photo effects is befunky.com - this is the cartoonized image.  What fun!

The season in California for upland game bird hunting has opened.

Right past where Mr. VZ is standing are the remnants of a homesteader's shack.  The green grass in the foreground is a natural spring.  

Finally, rays of sunshine through the clouds - along Jackson Highway.

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Day 2 of Photograph A Day (A Stranger) and Rural Thursday

At first I thought, why did I pick this topic!  I wanted to capture an image of someone with character and doing that is kind of sketchy in a major metropolitan city such as Sacramento.  First, I would have to locate a stranger that was approachable, and then ask permission to take the picture.  Chance would have it, I had to travel into Amador County on Wednesday morning and ran into Leland, an 87-year old longtime resident of Ione, California.

I have showcased the front of this barn on an earlier Rural Thursday post, here then is the backside of the barn (is there really a front and a back to a barn?)  What caught my eye was the play of morning light off of the horses.  

Of course, it would not be Thrift Shop Commando without highlighting my Goodwill finds.  You know my rule, "One bag in, one bag out" so I had donations to go and found this gem of a bracelet, a well-constructed piece of costume jewelry for $4.  I'm wearing it today ~

What strangers have you met recently?  

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Day 12 Photography Challenge (Sunset) and Rural Thursday

Pink roses and sunset, day 12's photograph challenge topic, needs no other explanation.  Now since that image might be a re-post, I have included two more images I captured on my way home.

These Amador County sunset photographs fit right in with Rural Thursday.  

Do you carry your camera with you at all times?  I've found to catch moments like this means being camera-ready.  



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