yummy

The way we start all red sauces at our house. Browned butter, garlic and chopped onion. This was the start of New Years Eve Lasagna, Big Grandma's recipe.

punishment

I threatened to send the pictures in which he is not wearing his buckles to Nana, if he did not behave. Not a creative shot I know but it was somehow such a busy day I did not get much else.

Joy

I see distortion and I really did not capture my vision here.. I think I need more twinkle lights in the BG.

Structure

This is the sun coming through the corn crib at our house. And the dog, doesn't she look so structured and uptight right there? She is watching my husband, whom she considers a god, and she is not about to let him out of her sight.

head on

This is the only way I will get a head on train shot, from up on a bridge. They scare me way too much to ever be close to or on the tracks when one is coming!

sledding

Sledding at my Hubby's Brother's house the day after Christmas! We sledded until we where cold, then we played Wii.

Ornamentalism

On my Mom's tree, I didn't get to shoot the tree for long, and I did not get much.

Lights

magic

water, cold and light.

Bowling

One of my son's classmates had a bowling party to attend. I took my camera but it was so so dark in the bowling alley! I futzed with curves and levels, and I don't think the pic is to bad, but its definitely a lovely natural light or nature shot! Would you believe I did not get one nice photo of my boy? I got a really cute on of one of his classmates.

Glazed

It took me long enough to get out in the ice and shoot a few, and dang was it cold. But it was beautiful too. Heavily overcast when I shot these.

Fly with Me

This little crane flies with me in the car. It is one of the first ones I made from polymer clay. When there is nothing else to shoot and I'm bored in the car I shoot him. This is not his first picture, but its the first time he has made the cut onto a 365 post. I like this picture because the blurry building in the background is the boy's school. This is a common view from the drivers seat.

Oh the weather outside is frightful...

Thank God for Carhartts!!!


On a side note, I'm behind getting photo's up, I'll be working on that today, be watching for back dated posts. It's been a busy week, I kept shooting, but I could not get the time to post.

hot, hot, hot

We took the kids to the local coffee house for hot cocoa and treats rather than our usual coffee and donuts. They sang the Hot Hot Hot song from Polar Express the whole way there .
I was not quick enough on the trigger to get the untouched whipped cream swirl.

I did get the whipped cream mustache, however.

And I had to get a shot of Mini-Poppy, cleaning the side of the cup. Just like my Dad, his Poppy would.

playing with the lights

Too dreary to play outside. I'm having to find inside subjects.

Year Round

Been on the mantle all year, about mid February last year I decided I liked the Nativity sets on the mantle, and decided to just leave them up. I cleaned everything last week, and put it all right back up.

peeking...

I love it in the early and late parts of the winter when the green things are still poking out of the snow.

just the beginning

I wont see pavement again until spring most likely.

Out of range

I tried to get as close to this tree as I could without getting out of the car and wandering off into the field, because it was bitterly cold. But I just don't seem to have gotten close enough. I was so cold, and the sun was not out. I could not bring myself to wander stranger's fields in the cold haze.

Adventures without light!

Gathered all the cousins together and shot a Christmas picture. The sun only shone for about an hour in the morning, it just got darker all day. We did not have much of a prayer as far as the light goes.my mom thinks its a little dark.. lol..

Ok, no creative photo today...

because I took a quick icky photo of my big bare wall over my big bare brick fireplace. I want to make a photo wall using some of my favorite prints.. and so I was thinking and brainstorming..

I'm asking for thoughts and opinions, This is a fast and loose interpretation of what I want to do, no formal cropping or sizing, but I made some a little bigger other smaller according to how I think they look good.

For reference, the fireplace is 7 ' wide and from the top to the ceiling is 4' 3". I'm thinking prints mounted on foam core so every once in a while I can change them out, add new favorites.

Thoughts opinions... lay it on me.

the opposite of white caps?

I love the way the soil peaks through the snow before it gets too deep, when you can still see the plow lines. I'd have liked to have zoomed in and composed this a little differently, but I couldn't. Wasn't feeling the kit lens at that moment.

decorative grass

Playing in the park, using the kit lens, developing a love hate relationship with it.

this morning

Unlike yesterday, this morning dawned bright and colorful, the temp was lovely and the sun was happy. But it was all down hill from there. The sky closed up and tossed a few inches of snow on us and the wind blew it across our ever drifting road.

reluctant morning

Not that I blame the sun for wanting to stay cuddled up in the clouds.

Alone

I love the naked trees. Nature's own sculpture.

Snow

Went out to shoot a few at the park after church, its hard to beat the quiet stillness of the snow covered park.

Playing favorites

One of our kitties. Truth be told, they are all my favorite.

Family

My God-daughter. With Momma and Dadda.

It's not a party without orange fluff

And it isn't Thanksgiving without the pumpkin pie.

At least that is what my nephew thinks. We always have orange fluff at every party. And if we don't he is sorely disappointed.

Chicken Portraits and gas prices

Chickens don't really take glamorous portraits, not that I find that surprising, but they are a lot like shooting toddlers, they are moving subjects. Out of 10 shots or the various girls we have, only this one came out. Barely. But isn't she cute? She should lay easter eggs. Blue or green tinted.Hoping this will last.

past

These grow out my back door, spring onion or chives or something. I never have figured out exactly what they are. But they pop up and bloom a pretty white flower, and like many of the bulbs around here they where a pleasant surprise the first year they bloomed.

isn't she lovely...

I have better shots of this nag. but this one is how I see her everyday, waiting for me at the fence to bring out the food. Not glamorous or striking or anything. Not to mention she is badly in need of me to pull the burs off of her. Nice forelock, she reminds me of Lucy Ricardo when her forelock is all curled up with cockleburs. But I like this time of year because the horses are waiting on pins and needles to get fed, watered , or thrown hay. And they are so much happier to see me once it gets cold. It makes it worth it to haul my butt out in the freezing cold to feed and check on them.

cold water

Filling the water for the beasties. decided to click off a few water shots, overflowed the bucked.

sloth

How I spent my Saturday. Notice the favorite jammies, the un-manicured feet, and the pink polish that is half gone. If you look even closer you will see the cough drop wrapper a kid left and the hole in the arm of the couch, where a kid experimented with scissors.

Chopped.

Left the house at 11:30 looking like this....returned at 3:00 looking like this.

Self portraits in the bathroom are better at 4:30 than at 11, and I am delighted to already know the reason without having to ask anyone. It proves that I have learned something!!

cemetery