Spider Lilies!

To cap off our vacation week, we spent Sunday of Memorial Day weekend with our friends John & Marcia at Landsford Canal State Park in South Carolina. Landsford Canal is home of the largest collection of Rocky Shoals Spider Lilies in the world. They bloom from mid-May to mid-June at this spot along the Catawba River. I had heard about these but never seen them before. What an amazing sight!

This image gives an overview of the shoals and shows just a portion of the thousands of flowers growing at this special place.

Photography-Free Week

We're spending this week at one of our favorite vacation spots - Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. We've been pretty busy and I owed Kathy some Tom-time, so I left the majority of my photo gear at home. Not being one to travel anywhere without some kind of camera however, I have my Canon G9 with me "just in case." I shot this image of sun dogs from our balcony while we were taking a break from the beach and having lunch. It's a fun and colorful image and one I thought I would share.

Charlotte Lynx

I've been wanting to get some shots of Charlotte's new light rail, the Lynx, since it went operational in November of last year. I have a number of shots of the Charlotte Trolley cars, and wanted to get some nice images of the Lynx to add to my collection. I purposely waited until spring to get some green on the trees and in the grass. This past Sunday turned out to be a perfect day - clear air, blue sky and some nice clouds.

This shot was taken at the rail crossing at Park Avenue in Charlotte's South End.