Some Days

Day 208: Okay, I haven't done as good a job of this as my friend Kevin did a year or so ago, but there are some things no right-thinking photographer can reasonably be expected to ignore. Metal cabinets full of explosives out in the middle of the forest rank pretty high on the list, especially if you happen to be an enthusiastic fan of Angry Birds. Every time I walk past trail crew's dynamite caches, I think of my little wingless friends and their foes, the bad piggies. Three stars!

Out For A Walk In The Woods

Day 247: For obvious reasons, I am not going to reveal the location where I shot this image, but I think it should be apparent that it's not the kind of thing you see every day. I've been here on many occasions, and yes, the sign is authentic, as is the container and its contents.

You'd see the flash before you heard the boom, if only by a nanosecond, and you certainly wouldn't be aware that you saw or heard it in the next nanosecond. I do love stumbling across things like this when I'm hiking. They kinda take your mind off the little singing birds, the tangled mosses, the delicate lichens and the sweet wildflowers, if you take my meaning.