• Blog - Photography

    2014 Summer Scavenger Hunt wrap up

    It’s time! Time to wrap up the 2014 Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt

    1. A sign welcoming people to your home town (or a nearby town)

    This is a sign from a nearby town I took one morning…hey, this one could even work for #13 a sunrise. Kind of a crummy photo but what do you expect for a really old cell phone through a windshield.
    sign
    2. A garden gnome

    I didn’t need to go far for the gnomes since my neighbor collects them.

    gnome collage
    3. Birds on a wire

    I wish I’d gotten a picture of a large power line that was just solid black with birds but I was driving…so you’ll have to be satisfied with these.
    bird on a wire birds on a wire 2

    4. A group of tourists

    What a great day this was with the family.tourists
    5. A rack of post cards

    Wall Drug: Wall, SDpostcard rack
    6. An urban street scene

    Minneapolis, MNurban street scene
    7. A rural landscape

    Various MN locationsrural landscape 3 rural landscape 1 rural landscape 2
    8. A tattoo on a persontatoo
    9. A bakery  I’m going with Alternative B: A bird house

    Another crummy cell phone picturebirdhouse
    10. A photo bomb (someone found lurking in the background of photo; the lurker may have intended to disrupt the picture or may be doing it unintentionally, but the background lurker is a surprise to the photographer)

    Gracie photobombing while I was trying to capture photos of giant bubbles photo bomb
    11. A horn

    I honestly could have had a whole collage of horns but I left it to this one photo.horn
    12. A mascot

    All taken during the 4th of July parade.mascot collage
    13. A sunrise

    This one was hard to get over summer since I didn’t have to get up quite so early. sunrise
    14. A parade

    Self explanatory.parade
    15. A juggler

    A little pre-parade entertainment.juggler
    16. A sign in a language other than English

    I took a liberty with this one. If I’m not mistaken those are Latin names for the flowers.FLcollage
    17. A lamp post

    I had never noticed all the unique lampposts around until this scavenger hunt. lamppost lamppost3 lamppost 2
    18. A water fall

    I really could have made 2 collages of waterfalls. I saw a lot of falling water. 🙂waterfall collage
    19. A public garden

    Minnesota Landscape Arboretumpublic garden public garden 2
    20. A bus (not a car, truck, lorry, camper or RV) with a picture painted on its sides.

    I thought this one would be difficult but I saw lots of painted buses, however, I only had my camera ready for 3.buscollage
    21. A photograph of you with something representing the season (recognizing that the season will be Winter for our friends in the southern hemisphere).

    This first photo I can be seen in the rearview mirror photographing the bison that tried to ram the van…seriously. It was almost a “State Farm moment”.

    summer activity 2

     

    I can be found under the yellow canopy waiting for the parade to start.
    summer activity

    Whew!! I did it! I’m a little bummed that I didn’t get a bakery. I saw one over summer but again was not prepared with a camera. I considered taking a photo at our local grocery store of the baked goods section but decided that was cheating.

    I’m looking forward to playing along with this challenge again…. Thanks to Rinda @gallorganico  for this fun summer challenge.

  • Blog - Kitchen

    T Tuesday: catching up edition

    Welcome to T stands for Tuesday.T stands for Tuesday_200

    Do I dare say that I think our internet troubles are finally over?  We haven’t had a reboot in almost 3 days now.  Of course, we’ve hardly used the computer either since we’ve been so busy.  Where shall I start?

    Apples….Phil and friends

    We helped with the annual harvest at our neighbors house on Saturday. We brought home 6 grocery bags of apples to be processed…a fraction of the total haul from their 7 trees.

    Later that evening I went to a new neighborhood edition of craft club, where I made these 4 cards as well as got my stamp on the backs of a huge stack of previously made cards. I was pretty tired from the day and didn’t really have my craft mojo going.

    craft club cards

    Sunday was spent with Little J in the garage processing through the apples.  They are organic so they have spots and holes so most need some trimming after being run through the peeler/corer/slicer. BIG JOB! So glad I had help this year. We ended up with about 15 gallons of apples ready for the next step.

    applesauce

    So far I’ve made 7 quarts of sauce…

    apple pie

    One pie…dehyrator

    An overstuffed quart bag of dried apple slices and three 8×8 apple crisps are in the freezer at the ready for future desserts. That was only about 1/2 the apples. More apple-ing today…

    Last night I had a well deserved glass of wine.relaxing

    Last week I finally got around to doing some creating…here’s a work-in-progress shot of a painting.

    WIP

    I’m a little late with my post today as I went for a walk with a friend around a local lake this morning. 4.25miles.  It was a little brisk at times but as long as you keep moving it helps keep you warm.

    What are you doing today?

  • Blog

    T Tuesday: internet interuptus edition

    I’m going to keep today’s edition of T stands for Tuesday very brief as I’m not sure when my cable modem will reboot again. Hopefully this issue will be resolved after the service tech comes out today.

    Until then…I’m working around the house and drinking my green monster smoothie for a nutrient and protein punch this morning.

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    Hopefully I’ll be able to do some visiting later on today…

    What are you up to?