Still going...

I'm still on track with my 365 project.  The prompt for this picture was "bright", I was up early (5:30) on a Saturday to try to capture the sun rise.  This was shot the first few seconds of the sun coming up over the mountains.  In just that few seconds it got really bright.  The month is flying by I can't believe we'll be in February  by the end of the week.  Have a great week and stay warm.

I'll talk to you again soon.

Week 3

My 365 project continues, this was my favorite shot of the week.  It's been fun to see how different everyone's interpretation of the daily inspiration plays out.  Sometimes you see a lot of the same kind of shot and other days they are all wildly different.  Well, I have a day off tomorrow and I'm trying to decide... sleep in or get up early and try to catch another sunrise in my viewfinder.  Hmmm, we'll have to wait and see how the morning goes. 

Have a great week, I'll talk to you again soon.

365 project

This was a tough week to get a daily photograph done.  But, I did it.  This was my favorite shot from this week.  The prompt for the day:  Movement.  Hope you have a wonderful week, I talk to you again soon.

365 photography challenge

OK, so in an effort to improve my photography skills and make myself get out and take pictures I decided to challenge myself to take at least one picture everyday.  There are lots of these challenges on the web but I decided to join in on one at Capture your 365.  There is a daily challenge topic if you get stuck with not knowing what to take a picture of and I like getting the email every morning to get my brain kick started on an idea for a shot.  

Of course not all shots will be planned since most days I leave just after sunrise and come back home just before or just after sunset, guess that's why it's a challenge, ha!  This was my favorite picture this week.  The topic was "repetition" this picture has a couple of different repetition elements to it, first is the lines and hardware and second it reminded me of how many times I have opened and closed card catalog drawers, repeatedly (before there was on-line catalogs).  I plan to post my favorite picture of the week to keep you up to date with my little project.  Wish me luck!

I'll talk to you again soon.

A touch of snow

Our first little snow of the year.  I didn't venture out too far, just to the edge of the driveway where I found this bauble in the front yard.  It must have blown over from the neighbors house.  I took a picture before cleaning it off and running it back over the them.

Just a dusting and it was gone by noon.  It was pretty while it lasted though.

I'll talk to you again soon.

Happy New Year

There are interesting times ahead, but my wish for each of you in the new year, is that it be filled with challenges, triumphs, and love.

I'll talk to you again soon.

Doing a little catch up

A quick picture of a yummy quiche I whipped up the other night for dinner.  There was barely enough left for lunches the next day.  So here is my sad little story...time flew through November and  before I knew it December 1st came and went!  I have been busy and not able to get to my computer with my pictures in a very timely manner.  So here I am, well into December playing catch up with my little blog.

 This year I participated in a little gift exchange for Halloween, at work.  I really enjoy putting together little gifts and packaging them up in cute ways so this was right up my alley.  I got a little involved with paper clay this year thanks to a book I picked up at B&N.  "Glitterville's handmade Halloween", such cute ideas, I had try my hand at some of them.  Crepe paper festooning, a big black spider, a pumpkin head knob for the top of a gift box.  A candy corn figure to top a bottle of candy corn colored M&M's.  

 Skip through November where I made half a dozen pies and a big dish of sweet potatoes (no pictures, there just wasn't the time!)  Now into December, I've started a little project with bottle brush trees, the picture below is the bleaching process.  I wanted to get rid of the green so I can do some pretty pastels.  I'm still working on them but I will get pictures soon.

 I tried my hand at window painting and spent some time painting a snow scene on the windows outside my library.  It was very fun, don't know why I haven't tried it before.

I have several projects in the works and will be better about snapping pictures and posting them (I hope).  Now you're caught up on some of the things I've been working on.  I hope your holiday preparations are well on their way.  I'll talk to you again soon.