Category: Winston-Salem

In a few Months

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I usually don’t post any photos taken around my house. They are not travel destinations and you can’t see them even if you like them. Today I made an exception to this rule.

Every Fall I try to plant tulip and daffodil bulbs in my backyard, as many as I can. I planted tulips a few weeks ago and today I finally got around and planted this’s year batch of daffodils – around 250-300 of them. All in the forestry area, inside the ivy and on the edge of the ivy and grass. Last year I did the same around stone walk into the forest. A few month later nature delivered remarkable results and provided us with very nice show of yellow and green. I hope that the new batch combined with matured daffodils from the last few years will give us a sea of yellow, just in about three month from now. Can’t wait. Now, where is my IPA?

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Millers Department Store

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The number of murals is definitely growing in Winston-Salem, and most of them are fairly artsy. Like this one. I’m not sure when it was painted but as of a few month ago I think it was not there. It might be an interesting project to walk around down town and record all of them, one by one. Because one day they will be gone, gone forever.

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Reynolda gardens Water Tower

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Fall season with all of its beautiful colors is suddenly over. This year it was a weird one, with many areas not having good colors, with some going from green to brown and then immediately dropping down to the ground.

A few weeks ago I took early morning walk at the Reynolda Gardens and found this little spot with perfect ground cover, highlighted by morning sun. Something to remember this season during upcoming winter months.

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Mirror Lake

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Sometimes you find things that you are not looking for and it just cuts you with surprise. A few month back we were in Oregon. We hiked for more than an hour to see Mirror Lake with reflection of the Mt Hood. We were lucky with clear skies and the view was nice, but there was a constant breeze that put some ripples across the lake, we spent almost an hour looking from couple different points and waiting for calmness. I managed to take some photos, one of them was posted here in August. A lot of effort, but in the end I didn’t get the perfect “mirror”.

This morning I went for a walk in the nearby Reynolda Park. There is a trail there and couple gravel roads. Usually I take the trail, but this morning for whatever reason I started in the wrong place and took one of the side roads. I knew where I was and went towards little ponds to get back to the trail. When I came to the pond, I approached it from an unusual access point and was treated to this awesome view of absolutely still water with amazing deep reflection of the sky and trees from the other side of the pond. The sun was at the right angle and it helped to reflect it with some amazing detail. As I was enjoying the view I thought that if I didn’t get lost and if I came to the lake from the other side, I might not see this little mirror, with it glimpse on the world above it. You can almost flip this photo 180 and you’d think that the reflection was the real thing. The cool part is that there are more details on the trees in the mirror than in its real version.

After taking this photo I hiked around the pond. No cool reflections.

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Fall at Salem Lake

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Yesterday evening we went for a short walk at Salem Lake to see if they fixed the dam and if the lake is still deflated. The dam is nowhere near completion and water levels at its lowest levels, but the fall colors are still in full force, just as I was hoping for.

Today I processed two of them from last night and decided to post both of them at the same time.

I did not plan to take a photo with someone jogging, but when this dude showed up I kept pressing the shutter. I ‘m glad he did, it gives this photo some dynamic and a bit more of a foreground focus. Sun was going down but with super clear skies it was very bright, you can witness it by the reflection from the lake.

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This was taken before the first photo, the light at this spot was superb, illuminating fall colors, so I could not resist but take some photos. I hope you  enjoy a bit of fall colors as much as I do.

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