It's that fun and exciting time again - looking for the perfect Christmas tree at one of the local tree farms.

We had a beautiful sunset last night in Charlotte after a storm rolled through. It's probably one of the most dramatic sunsets I've seen here.

50/52 - Really? I'll be sticking with my artificial tree, thank you. And it already has lights on it. (These sure do smell good though.)

48/52 - The leaves have pretty much fallen off all the trees around here. It's looking like winter. Now, we just need some snow.

47/52 - We've still got a little fall color hanging around, but it's not going to last much longer.

38/52 - This isn't the image I had intended to use this week, but it will have to do. The memory card that had the image I planned to use decided to die on me somewhere between the county fair and home. I'll have to wait until next year to try to get the shot again. This is Providence United Methodist Church here in Charlotte. Another great little country church that is surrounded by the every-growing city.

37/52 - Was at Johnson C. Smith University to take pictures and was delighted by the inscriptions on the buildings pointing to God. You just don't see this kind of architecture and inscriptions on new buildings anymore.

36/52 - Stopped by St. Paul Presbyterian again to try to come up with some decent pictures of it. It's a beautiful little church that I drive by all the time.

35/52 - The dogwoods and other similar sized trees are beginning to change to their fall colors. It's early for that, so my guess is it's due to stress from the warmer than normal summer we've had. Either way it signals that fall is on the way. Can't wait!

33/52 Some of Charlotte's historic areas have some really nice homes and landscapes. I need to spend more more time in those areas taking pictures. This one was taken along Kings Street here in town.

32/52 - Made a quick trip to Freedom Park this week and captured this shot. I like low light, low contrast images and the 50mm lens is great for these type of images.

29/52 Yep, another church picture this week. I had planned to photograph this church at sunset, but a storm rolled in and provided some really nice cloud cover. I had hoped to capture some of the lightning, but wasn't able to. I didn't get to make too many photos before the rain began, so I'll have to revisit this church on another day.

28/52 I decided to stop by another local church to take pictures this week. There are so many old churches in this area that I could create an entire project of church pictures and still not cover all of them. Something to think about.

27/52 - The small church by my house. It's such a nice looking church and I really need to stop and photograph it more often. This was taken yesterday in the 100+ degree weather. Sweat was dripping off me, but I was having a good time and didn't notice how much I was sweating until I was finished taking pictures.

26/52 - It was a good weekend for the pool. I was the only one there for a little while, which was nice. I'm at the half-way point for this photo project. Just 26 weeks to go.

22/52 - I went to a few cemeteries today to photograph American flags placed on the graves of veterans for the Memorial Holiday. Sadly, I found very few. At one cemetery I saw just one and the cemetery in this shot had just three. I wish I had taken some flags with me to place on the graves of the forgotten. I wasn't too happy with the color version of this shot, so I added a texture to it and converted it to black & white.

19/52 - Azaleas in bloom at the gardens at UNCC.