Trail Ride

Feb and March is rodeo time for Houston.  Every year there are a number come into town riding their horses and wagons on trail rides.  Some of the trail rides take over a week on the "trail."  The closest to me comes in from Montgomery, about 30 miles northeast of me.  This one is called the Sam Houston Trail ride.  They overnighted in Tomball.  But I caught them as they came into town (Tomball).  There were only about 3 wagons and 30 riders, this has shrunk over the years, but it was still fun.

Line Dance

The Tomball Community Center has a group of line dancer and they were showing off there skills while waiting for the trail ride to get into town.

Here they Come

Ride in Comfort

Used my Mobile, too (aka Cell Phone)

Tomball Train Depot

 A short visit to Tomball Train Depot to donate a book for their library.  Had to take some pictures while I was there.  There is a model train set up but it is closed for remodeling now, thus no pictures of model.  Got some images of the outside.

Plug in sky just to liven the image, was a overcast day

Had to take some pictures of the closed Dairy Queen.  The franchise owner got in a battle with corporate and closed all 26 locations that he owned.  So Tomball Texas along with 25 other locations are without the "Belt Buster."

Kleb Woods

 Went out to Kleb Woods yesterday, first time in a long time.  Still quiet and secluded.  But the surrounding area is developing fast.  The change in water flow from the developers dumping many yards of dirt in the area causing flooding has changed Myrtles Pond filling it with silt and stuff.  Hopefully there are plans for some improvements.

I wen there to practice some soft focus photography.  I played around with my Lensbaby Trio 28 lens and my Soft Focus Filter on the 28-70mm lens.  What did I learn from this outing - PRACTICE PRACTICE.  That's what I need to do with this equipment.

Objective was also to get some images for two challenges I have this week.  One is a texture image for the weekly Nicolesy Community.  I will submit the Leaf image from below for Nicolesy.  The other challenge is for the Northwest Houston Photo Club a soft focus image.  

Here are some of my shots from this outing.

Entrance (Note trail to bird blind on right)

Entrance trail

Beep Beep

Soft Focus Lens

Lensbaby Velvet Lens

Lensbaby Twist Lens

Soft Focus Lens

Lensbaby 

Soft Focus Lens

Interesting Textures

Now quit looking at my work and for take some pictures.