Kristin and I were walking out of Walmart tonight to some perfectly formed sky to ground lighting. It is one of my life goes to photography lighting. It is such an awesome, powerful thing!

Just sucks that we had such great weather all week long then this crappy weather this weekend. We took a road trip yesterday afternoon to Marion, Ky for their Back Roads festival. They were packing up by the time we got there due to rain. Always fun to go on a back country drive, though.

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So yesterday it was very perfect picture taking making conditions outside. It was sunny but just bearly overcast so there weren’t any harsh shadows. I headed down the road to where I knew about this barn on this hill and snapped a few pics. On the way to the barn I saw these amazing bright orange flower bushes in front of this red shed/barn behind this house. On the way back I said what the heck and stopped at this house, knocked on the door and this older man was much abliged to let me photograph his beautiful flower bushes. They looked like azaila bushes, but they weren’t and I can’t for the life of me remember what he called them.

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Kristin and I had a bit of a time deciding what we wanted to do yesterday so in the late afternoon we headed to Southern Illinois. If you haven’t checked out the Shawnee Wine Trail, we recommend it as a must thing to do.We started at the Blue Sky Vineyards, this place is amazing looking. It’s strikingly odd, you are driving down these bearly two lane roads out in the middle of no where. I mean you look left and you see a field, you look right and see woods. Then all of a sudden on the right is a green grass hill with these very good nice looking gates! Kristin loved that they had this huge metal art work of a buffalo. This winery was quite the site. It’s main building appeared ot be Ranch style. Inside the tasting area was a large valuted ceiling with orneight plaster and painting. Outside was a patio over looking this man made lake and rock waterfall. Beyond that you could see more vineyards of vine not yet yeilding green leaves and grapes. Although they were out of their wines that I would have preferred, we still enjoyed tasting the remaining choices.

Next we were off to the Owl Creek Vineyard. Now this place was more our speed. First they had a huge black puppy laying at the door, that we later found out his name is Walter and he is part Lab, part Mastiff, and part South African Newfoundland. He was very cool. Th

e tasting room was upstairs and it was only us and the vineyard’s owner. I was very impressed, because we actually had the chance to learn about his wines and vineyard.

I had a good time and can not wait to go back and hit the other wineries.

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