FRIDAY FENCE POST #61

It's Friday, so time for a Friday Fence Post! Join this meme--it's EASY. Just grab the Friday Fence Post button in my left sidebar, and put it on your own blog. That's first. Then make your own Friday Fence Post on your blog, come back here, and drop the link to it in the Mr Linky. Be sure the link is the perma-link to that particular post, and not to your general blog, so that we'll be taken to your fence(s) when we click on it.

I promise to come see every Fence Post you drop and leave a comment!





This new routine of walking a couple of miles every day has had a side benefit: Lots of fences! I've got a whole collection saved up now, for use in future posts.

As I've walked and checked out the neighborhood fences, I've pondered the question: What makes a fence interesting?

Answer: The decision to photograph it!

Granted, there are some boring fences out there. Brand-new, spiffy fences are generally harder to capture, for me, anyway. They simply haven't developed any character yet. But if you look carefully, and experiment with camera angles and range, it's amazing what you'll see in a lot of fences that strike you, at first, as not worth the effort!

Here are today's fences:




And one fence I couldn't get, because my little friend refused to stop blocking it:


And that nasturtium at the top of this post? It was on top of a fence!


It pays to looks up, over the tops of the fences. You just never know who's watching:

FRIDAY FENCE POST #60

This is, ta-da!, the 60th Friday Fence Post! Yeah, I know the title says that, but I need to say it again.

I have new fences for you, and (deep breath) a new meme. Will you join me? I'll put the badge in the left sidebar, and if you run across a fence that grabs your fancy, post it on Friday, and let me know! I'll do a Mr Linky, and you can put the link to your post in, and then we can all come see your fence, too.

It would be great if you were to grab the Friday Fence Post Badge and put it in your own sidebar, and of course, link back to here. That way we'll get more people to the party, which is Always a good thing, right?

And now, without further ado, this week's fences:





One more note: If you join, do feel free to play with your fences. I Love Photoshop filters, and often alter my photographs with them. You may want to do that, too, or draw them, rather than photograph them. You might print them out and alter them in other ways. However you do it, I want to see them!

Friday Fence Post #16

And now, a Friday Fence Post, posted, as has been my terrible habit of late, days later, but dated as though I did it on time. Bad Ani! Bad! (Honestly, I had the pictures, but by the time Bob and I got home from our afternoon cruise of Canyon Lake, we were both exhausted, and I completely spaced out both my internet to-dos--a Blog Carnival post for my http://www.etsy.com team, Etsy Bloggers, and the Friday Fence Post I'd been planning. Having to walk four blocks to get to an internet connection in a busy laundromat doesn't help, either.)

Without further excuses, some fences I've found interesting:

FRIDAY FENCE POST #62

There are several fences for today, including our last Halloween-y fences. (Halloweenie? Holy Hot Dog, Batman! Okay, forget that even popped into my brain, lol.)

I loved this fence, or rather long row of fences, with the brightly-colored foliage above, and the contrasting colors and materials of the different fences themselves:


And in this same row, but to the right of the shot above, the fir branches sticking through...

And now, Halloweenish moments!


Messing about with the Jack-o-Lanterns netted this:


A Spidey fence and tree:

And this must be the web, huh?

I LOVE how the Ink Outlines filter made it look like night. Never have seen that effect before.

And NOW, it's your turn! Put your link to your own Friday Fence Post here:


And to Really join the party, grab my Friday Fence Post button, over in the left sidebar, and put it somewhere in your own blog. I would love to see more fences, from more places, and I promise to come visit all of them!

FRIDAY FENCE POST #64

Oh, I am SO late doing this! I actually found a couple of really great fences yesterday, over in the Hawthorne district, but (have I learned my lesson yet?) did not have my camera.

Then, instead of getting back there today, I took more time than expected to get art over to Trillium, checked in, and displayed in the store, and ended up snapping a couple of fences through my car's window whilst sitting at stoplights. Dusk was coming on, but there was still just enough light. Of course, once I "got the fences home", I had to play with those lovely Photoshop filters, too!





This last fence is from my cousin Darla! It was such a delight that she'd participate, even though she doesn't have a blog. I'd never even thought about that: You can send your fence photos to me if you don't have a blog, and I'll see your Friday Fence Posts get published here, so get your camera, and start clicking that shutter!


And now it's your turn! Create your Friday Fence Post for your blog, and put the permalink in Mr Linky down below. Also, please grab the button from the left sidebar, and put it somewhere on your blog page, so other people can join the fun. I promise to visit every fence and leave a comment!

FRIDAY FENCE POST #7

Whew. Quick post tonight. I've been gone most of the day, doing a show at my granddaughter's school (Art in the 'Burbs). Now it's twenty to eleven at night, but I don't want to miss my Friday Fence Post!

First one isn't, technically, a fence, but it struck me like one, and I loved the look of it, sharply defined against the enormous wall of a building I photographed last week, and put in my "5 Steps to Decrepit" post. I've called it "Call to Arms" because my brother did, saying it looked like the lines of rifles you sometimes see in old photos.



Call to Arms


Then, same day, the loops of razor wire atop a chain link fence struck me. They remind me of the penmanship exercises my dad used to have me do, in an effort to add grace to my handwriting.



Loopy


Last, two shots of a picket fence near my home:



Overgrown


Overgrown II

FRIDAY FENCE POST #76

Time already for a Friday Fence Post! I've been thinking about this one all week, ever since I got to go up to the Hood River Valley to see Mama. She and her sister, my Aunt Charlotte, go for a two-mile walk just about every day. My brother Duane was also visiting, so the four of us all went.

The daily walk takes place on a road near Aunt Charlotte's, with this on one side:

and this on the other:

 

Now, when I go walking with other people and have my camera with me, a routine usually develops quite quickly. I stop to take pictures. They keep walking. I run to catch up. Same number of steps, but I like the extra exertion it gives me!

My "little" brother (he is younger!) encourages me:

Between the two photos just above, there was a fence. A great fence. Close-ups first:

Look how the lichen and weathered knothole have formed a heart:

And then this last one. I didn't even see the horse until I had the gate in my viewfinder. I love it!

One last shot of the dog who joined us at about the half-mile mark. You may not be able to see from this shot, but this is one BIG dog. When he stands on his hind feet, he is at least as tall as Mama, and he quite easily bounces up to eye-level with that six-foot brother o' mine. And we are all convinced he's just a puppy still! He has that goofy galumphing playfulness that only puppies have, and when he isn't suddenly putting his front paws on your shoulders, he's quite the charmer.

Puppy was entranced by the newly-constructed igloo in this yard, and almost went inside, but there was this other dog...We didn't see him for a while after that, but he did rejoin us on our return.

Your turn! I haven't seen any fences but my own lately and I want to see yours! Post your fence on your blog, and drop the link into Mr Linky here, and be sure to leave a comment!

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FRIDAY FENCE POST #78

I love this time of year, when Spring arrives and photographing fences becomes an excuse for taking pictures of what's in front of them! AND I got out of my car! My foul weather fence photography secret is I park across from the fence I've chosen, roll down the window, and shoot from there. What can I say? I have a strong distaste for being cold and wet!

Today's first fence:

At the left edge of the photo above, you can just make out the hellebore in these next three. Isn't it beautiful? I love the new varieties that have come out in the past several years!

Filters R Fun

How about bright yellow forsythia against a white picket fence? Is there a brighter harbinger of Spring?

Last one, an "owlish" fence on the next corner:

 

These photos are all much larger than they appear, sort of like things you see in your sideview mirror. Click on them to bring them up full-size.

Now it's your turn! Post your Friday Fence, and come back here with the URL, so I can come see it, too! (Make sure it's the permalink to the post itself, so I can find it.) You've got a whole week to bring back your link, so be sure you leave a comment, so I'll know to look. (By the way, I'd love it if you'd grab the button in my left sidebar for your own blog. Let's get more people, with more fences!)

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FRIDAY FENCE POST #14

It's been a long time coming, this Friday Fence Post. The weather has been colder than a fishwife's glare, and they do not call me "Temperature Wuss" for nothing, so I haven't gone out any more than was absolutely necessary, and certainly not to take pictures.

But. We went to our son and daughter-in-law's today, and thinking of adorable grandchildren on top of the drive through all that ruralness, I put the camera in the front seat. It was, like I said, cold. There was frost everywhere, even at 10am, but as I drove up the hill, following a white sun, there was this fence...oooh...

I was able to resist the impulse to park the car and grab my camera for the span of probably an entire ten feet.

Barbed wire never looked so beautiful...

and the moss atop the weathered black fence post was a world unto itself...

I wonder, as I finish this, whether my youngest will recognize her home, at the end of that fence?
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