Slash and burn...

Ivo burns slash : Flagstaff, AZ

Living in a mountainous area requires maintaining a firebreak around the house. This is Ivo burning pine needles and slash.

Photo copyright: Janet M Kincaid, 2/12

Chartreuse

Chartreuse : Geneva, CH

Walking to the bus on the way home, I looked up and this was my view. Out came the Apple iPod Touch and viola--another Hipstamatic print.

Photo copyright: Janet M Kincaid, 7/11

Winter Tree

Arteries, Veins, and Capillaries : Ferney, FR

Photo copyright: Janet M Kincaid, 1/11

Vertical

No. 1/11/11 Vertical : Ferney-Voltaire, FR

Today is 1/11/11. In honor of this once-in-a-lifetime date, I give you denuded trees--stark and vertical on a winter's day.

Photo copyright: Janet M Kincaid, 1/11

You Must Not Be French

Definitely NOT French! They showed up before 8:00 a.m.--unheard of in France!

The French and France are notorious among Europeans for being overly bureaucratic and taking forever to finish a project. The prevailing joke is, if you're having work done on your property that would normally take two weeks, figure it will take 12. If you're lucky. For reasons unknown to us, someone decided to cut down an otherwise perfectly healthy, but very large tree in the garden of our apartment complex. While that's distressing by itself, the weirdest part was, the workers taking down the tree showed up the other morning to begin hauling away the tree debris BEFORE 8:00. On the day they took down the tree, Maya reported that the workers took very short coffee breaks and practically worked through lunch. All we can surmise is, they must not be French!

Our once glorious tree is no more. Boo. : Ferney-Voltaire, FR

Photo copyright: Janet M Kincaid, 11/10

Fuerteventura : Part V

Triumphant

Some of the plant life to be found around Tuineje...

Cactus and Windmill

Platter of Prickly Pear

Date Tree

Photo copyright: Janet M Kincaid, 10/10

Réflexion en Rouge

Réflexion en Rouge : Ferney-Voltaire, FR

I can't remember what I was shooting when I took this (I think it was this), but I was looking out of the kitchen window and when I looked down, I noticed the tree in the garden reflected in the red glass of the table. Kind of cool, huh?

Photo copyright: Janet M Kincaid, 5/10

Dwarfed

Dwarf Among Giants : Geneva, CH

Just another shot from around campus. This red maple over the crest of the hill caught my eye and begged to be photographed.

Copyright: Janet M Kincaid, 10/09

Fall Fireworks

Fiery! : Geneva, CH

It's November 1. Let's try this again and see if I can get it going and stick with it. Just a couple of pictures of the fall colors around the place where I work.

Fall Fireworks : Geneva, CH

I'm still on a quest for a new camera. I think I've narrowed it down to the Nikon D5000. The biggest selling point? Pivoting LCD screen. That's one of my secrets to many of my photos: the ability to get down low without lying on the ground and still being able to see what I'm shooting. Any thoughts out there about my potential equipment choice?

Christmas in October : Geneva, CH

Photo copyright: Janet M. Kincaid, 10/09

Pink

Sunset in Pink

My friend, Dr Lala, loves the color pink. The other day, we had a beautiful sunset I'm calling Lala's Sunset in Pink.

Photo copyright: Janet Kincaid, 06/09