The unexpected: Fireflies (or LIghtning Bugs in these parts)!

Hiked to a location on the Green River Bluffs Trail in Mammoth Cave NP. Was going to try to get star trails over the river. I got a few. It never got really dark though. There is just too much light from nearby towns. I also had a surprising amount of lightning bug action. They were everywhere. They are mostly out of focus, but the yellow dots and streaks are those guys.

I have no idea why, but they were crawling all over the camera. Not the nearby fence, not the big metal box the webcam is housed in, not the bench that is nearby, and not me. But they liked the camera. Go figure.

This last photo is a combination of 6 one minute shots. The advantage of this method is that the sky does not wash out. Notice the much greater number of stars. I have never tried this before - I will be trying this again with more photos for the stack.

The top photo is a stacking of these two bottom photos. Just playing around.

My favorite spot. Went for the dogwoods.

Went for the dogwoods, but none this time. Oh there are dogwoods, and they are in full bloom, and beautiful. But, alas, none of the photos of the dogwoods jumped out at me.

An evening at Shanty Hollow.

Took my niece over to Shanty Hollow to catch the sunset (which we missed), and to take a few star trail shots.

Another trip to the cemetery!

It's been way too long since I have been out with the camera. I went to the cemetery to get some dogwood shots. They were not great, and weren't fully in bloom yet anyway.