I haven’t posted photos in a couple of weeks and the photos that I posted last were from June. I thought I would make a new post and show you some of the photos that I took this month, July. I wish I could show you more of them than I will be, but, I keep family photos off of the Internet.

The chickens keep getting bigger. Pretty soon we’re going to have to have chicken and dumplings for supper one evening. I wish there were more hens, though. I love fresh eggs. Especially brown eggs. Though, I don’t like them when they have blood in them.

In the second set of photos above there is a Japanese beetle on a stalk of corn. A corn update: It didn’t do so well. It dried out way too quickly. The photos beside the Japanese beetle are buddings, I guess that’s what you’d call them, from a shoemaker tree. I don’t know what the correct term for the tree is but my family has always called it a shoemaker tree. I haven’t been able to find any references to shoemaker trees online so I’m going to assume it’s a Southern term.

I’ve been meaning to post these for a couple of weeks now. Last week I was working on some projects for someone so I can keep paying the bills! Yes, I know! Excuses, excuses!

I decided to change this category up a little bit. Instead of this being a weekly feature, I decided to just change the category title from “Photos of the Week” to “Photography.” Why? Well, for obvious reasons, I’m lazy and the weekly thing would probably never happen. Wishful thinking on my part! I have also been thinking that I need a space that I can use to show off some of my best work. I thought it would be silly to create another website because I already have too many! So, here it is. Hopefully, with any luck I won’t change this category again. Enough meta talk, on to the photos!

The photos from above are from our garden this year. We’re trying several different things. One of those being corn. Gorgeous, tasty, sweet corn!

It seems to be doing pretty well. I walked down there the other day and saw many ears of corn. I’m anxious to have fresh corn from the garden. I’d like to make some cream style corn with it. Would definitely be better than that stuff you get out of the store. I need to find my Great-Grandmother’s recipe for cream style corn and do a video.

The fourth photo (second row) is the start of one of the rows of green beans in our garden. We’ve already been enjoying the green beans. My sister has been canning them for the winter. They are SO good! The fifth photo is of the beets! How many of you like beets? I LOVE beets! At least I hope I do. It’s been a while since I have had them. A long while! The last time I had them was at my Grandmother’s house when we’d come in from school. The last photo is of the grapes growing on our grape vines. I am very anxious for these to ripen. I just hope most of them don’t fall off which is what happened last year.

Before I close up this post I want to link you to a blog entry I read earlier last week titled “8 Photography Myths Debunked.” I thought there was a lot of great advice in the article. My favorite being:

I Can’t Take a Good Photo Without X: X can be whatever you want. A flash? Use a flashlight. An SLR? Use a point and shoot. A tripod? Steady that hand by leaning on something. A camera? Well, yeah you would be right, there. Point is, there is always a way to take a good photo. Improvise and adapt. Learn to embrace it and you will find yourself taking more, better photos than you had imagined.

I am guilty of that, completely. I want a dSLR so badly! I know it will be a while before I’m able to afford one and all the accessories that I’d want for it (and need) from the start. I’ve always heard my entire life: “You can take a good photo with any camera.” I believe that, too. I honestly think a better camera just makes it easier for you to capture a photo. Although I believe a dSLR would improve my photography, I have to remind myself that I have gotten some great shots with the camera I’ve got and I want to show people that they can take great photos with any camera, too. Happy shooting!