Tony's Photo of the Day

Peter, Peter Pumpkinhead

This evening the kids all go out to find more than their fill of candy and stick it in their bags. This fellow, however, guards the candy stash across the street from my house.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: Across the Street from My House in Labadie, Missouri USA

Steep Steeple

This beautiful steeple is part of Christ Church Cathedral in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. I love all of the details...the little figures (gargoyles?) and windows and all.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: Christ Church Cathedral in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri USA

Stoned Leaf

This beautiful decoration was found on the base supporting one of the lights at the St. Louis library.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: The Library in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri USA

Eagle Eye View

Unwavering stare
Of infinite eyes
Continues through day and through night
No muscle is moved
No breath do you take
As you sit as a guard of our might

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: Soldiers' Memorial in Downtown Saint Louis, Missouri USA

It's About Time

You show me when
The minutes pass
And as the seconds go
And if I had
You not at hand
The time I'd never know

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Kitchen in Labadie, Missouri USA

Get A Bead On It

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Kitchen in Labadie, Missouri USA

Driving Me Bananas

Yellow tubes
Of monkeys' joy
Fill our bellies up
Whether they're
For girls or boys
For breakfast, lunch or sup

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Kitchen in Labadie, Missouri USA

It's Getting Hot In Here

Is it done yet? Is it done yet? Survey says...not hot enough yet.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Kitchen in Labadie, Missouri USA

Needly

These things are being shed everywhere here at the house.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Front Yard in Labadie, Missouri USA

Tired Tire

It rolls on down
The rough paved road
In country and in town

But after all
Those rocky years
It's fi-nal-ly worn down

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Neighbors' Back Yard in Labadie, Missouri USA

Rust Burn

This rust caught my eye because of the way it seems to be almost aflame.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Back Yard in Labadie, Missouri USA

Knobbby

Round and round it goes...where it stops determines the flow.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: Our Back Yard in Labadie, Missouri USA

Slug Bug Brown

Weeding 'round the flowers
I chanced upon a slug
And wondered to myself
Is it worm or snake or bug?

And though I know not where it falls
This little piece of slime
I still have placed it on this page
To live for all of time

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Back Yard in Labadie, Missouri USA

One Petal At A Time

Autumn is descending upon us all...but this flower is only letting go one petal at a time.

Pardon my on again, off again posting schedule the last couple of weeks. I've been dealing with internet and phone connection problems. Hopefully everything is about worked out...or will be soon.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: First Wesleyan Church in Washington, Missouri USA

Love Bugs

As the rest of nature realizes that fall is finally here...two bugs seem convinced it's still spring.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: First Wesleyan Church in Washington, Missouri USA

Leaf It To Me

This tree was still hanging on to some of its color. The trees in my yard seem to have suddenly just decided to skip the colors and turn from green to brown. We have a couple of fir trees that decided to shed their fur...leaving a carpet of brown needles everywhere. Like animals and their fur...these trees shed their fur. The difference is...animals shed their fur when it gets hot...trees shed their fur when it gets cold.

It's a mixed up world sometimes. = )

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: First Wesleyan Church in Washington, Missouri USA

Bee-ginning Of The End

As the flowers begin to wilt with the end of summer, the bees are gathering up the last of the nectar to take home to their hives. As I was out looking for photos to take, there were tons of bees around the flowers. They know the days are numbered and are working up a storm to finish their season's work. Maybe they're as bad of procrastinators as some of us.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: First Wesleyan Church in Washington, Missouri USA

Pushin' Up Daisies

These were some more flowers hanging out in the long grass, just waiting for fall to come and snatch them away. It's gone from hot to warm to cool to cold and back to warm again. It was up to around 80 degrees (Fahrenheit) today. Oh well...it will be fall soon enough.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: First Wesleyan Church's Yard in Washington, Missouri USA

Run For Cover...I Mean Clover

Before all of the flowers and blooming weeds are gone for the year, I gathered a few more photos. This clover, for example (along with several of its siblings), was hanging onto its beautiful purple color for a little while longer.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: First Wesleyan Church in Washington, Missouri USA

Floral Finale

As fall gets into the swing of things around here, the flowers around my home begin to whither a little bit. But with the leaving of the flowers comes the color of the leaves...and finally, the cooling of the air. Mmmm...my favorite time of year.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: Outside My House in Labadie, Missouri USA

Edison's Ingeneious Engineering Invention

It's been a few months since I had my week full of photos of different kinds of lights, but I didn't get this particular one. I had a couple similar perhaps, but something about lights interests me. All of them are so similar in their glow...yet so different shapes and ways of throwing light.

I guess it's kind of like people. We're all the same in so many ways...but each so different in shape and attitudes. I guess that what makes each of us pretty interesting.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My House in Labadie, Missouri USA

A Little Batty

What's tiny, furry, cold and winged? Why the bat on the side of my office building, of course. My co-worker spotted it this morning and pointed it out to a couple others of us as we were walking by it (Thanks, Lynn). It was all cuddled and snuggled against the side of the building...just hanging there. Not that I'd choose a cement building as a good cuddling partner...but whatever floats your boat. I probably spent 20 minutes taking photos of it from pretty close (up to about one inch away)...and it just stayed right where it was. I guess it was either fast asleep or I'm just not as scary as I think. ; )

And here I thought you had to go to the country to watch the wildlife.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Office Building in Downtown Saint Louis, Missouri USA

An Upstanding Pillar of Society

What are the pillars which support your life?

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: The U.S. Courthouse in Downtown Saint Louis, Missouri USA

Let Me In

Find the key...or find the button. The choice is up to you.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My House in Labadie, Missouri USA

I'll Handle It

Is it a barrier or is it a protector? Many things in life can be either...depending on how you choose to look at them.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My House in Labadie, Missouri USA