Color or Black and White?

I can't figure it out. I don't do much in the way of landscape photography (it just doesn't speak to me) but when I do I can't resist making the photos black and white. I don't understand what drives me toward black and white? Is it the time of year. Spring is here but really hasn't taken hold (it snowed just yesterday). Is it because the colors are so muted that black and white just seems to fit the bill?

I don't know what it is about black and white that attracts me?


What is it about color that makes me loose interest. Is it the photos are boring to begin with, and black and white gives it the spice it needs?


Black and white clouds, mountains just seem more majestic?


Again the color just seems so bland. Maybe I just need to be able to go out and shoot when the light is good.


Maybe I am on a Black and White kick and this is just the favorite new flavor? Some people like plain vanilla, and plain isn't so bad sometimes!

The great big tree......

This is old news but I thought that some of the family would want to know. Grandma Pedersen's great big pine tree, the one out front at the far South East corner is no more. A couple of weeks ago Larry and Donny began the process of removing the limbs from the tree. They cut off the top of the tree and the limbs in what was surely a massive undertaking.



I know it is sad but the tree was rotting from the inside out. The way the winds blow here in Utah and due to the slope of the hill heading East to the mountain means the tree would have most likely landed on Grandma's house. We are sad to see you go Mr. Tree but we are glad that Grandma is now safe. We will have to see how this affects the summer heat in the house as the tree blocked the heat of the sun from her home.