Making Lemonade from Lemons

Mother nature threw a few lemons at us the other day sending the main jet to the north and the subtropical jet to the south and leaving us stuck in between with no upper level support to get our dryline storms fired off. As we mentioned, we went after those storms developing there, but they never did much and we never could really catch it. Was just moving too fast.

So we decided to do like we always do and make the best of it with a side trip for some photography. We ended up in Alvord, TX. A small down northwest of Ft. Worth where my parents grew up. My dad is buried there, along with both sets of grandparents. This is the first time I have been back there in a very long time. Took the chance to take many pictures around down, and of the headstones. Little changes over the years in a town like that.

Graham got some really cool pics there, especially of main street…all 2 blocks of it. Practically looks the same as it did decades ago. Once he gets through tweaking them I’ll see about posting a couple.

We then headed to nearby Decatur, which is much larger and had some places to eat. But first we stopped off downtown to take some pictures of their very unique and historic courthouse. I was getting some lessons from Graham on using my new Canon Rebel XTI camera and night photography. Here are some of my first night shots and first attempts and post work on a photo. Lemonade from lemons…

Written by David on April 5th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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