soaking up the sun

Today was beautiful and I sat outside soaking up the first good day of the season.  A slight breeze, birds singing and glorious sun shinning on my face.  Yes, today was beautiful, so I went outside and enjoyed it for a minute.

Mar 31

lil ol me

In the group I'm in it's portrait week.  Do you think you'll get sick of seeing pictures of me?  Or me trying to get some good shots of myself and not deleting them?  That being said here is my first attempt of photographing myself.

Mar 30

common carotids are where?

Do you know where your common carotids are?  They are on both sides of your neck, next to your jugulars, of course.  ;-)~ 

For school I have to do a project of the left and right common carotids, the aortic arch, brachiocephalic trunk, left and right vertebral and a few other arteries.  What do you think?  Does it look right?  I'm not quite done with it, but I thought it looked cool as is.  I'm going to paint the background with shades of reds and pinks to give it more depth.

Mar 29

just an average sunday

Yep that what today day was ~just your average Sunday that we had at the house.  With 2 little girls one is bound to cry over something.  I looked up and saw T leaning on couch with tears on her face.   And what else would you use a (new) toothbrush for, but to comb your Barbies' hair?

Mar 28

waiting to dance

I really like this photo it kind of reminds me of an Edgar Degas painting.  The one of the ballet dancers getting ready to dance, very much like, Dancers In Pink  it gives you an idea of the waiting to start kind of feelings.  It was just a few minutes before they went out to dance for the first time, and they were wonderful!

Oh and just because I could I tried making it look like a painting...well sort of I'm still getting use to my photoshop software.

Mar 27

Mar 26

Look up in the sky what do you see?  Look up at the tree tops what do you see?  Just a crow hanging on to the top branches in breeze.  Wait there he goes.

Mar 26

where's the buds?

It's late March in Georgia so where are the buds?  Okay so the weather has been a freaky and we've had a bit of snow in March....I just want it to be spring. :-/

Anyway as I was walking by this tree I looked up and saw how cool it looked, went to my car and grabbed my camera ~I am learning to take my camera with me everywhere~ took a few shots and then realized that there was no buds on the branches and then it started to rain that cold yucky rain.  sigh...really weird spring weather.

Mar 25 

look up

Look up, what do you see?  I'm in a group of talented ladies that does a photo a day there's a theme each week, I try to follow with one at least one photo once a week.  The women in the group are great and have some wonderful, neat looking photos and I feel humble to be in their group.  This week is looking up.  I think I'm going to follow it more then one day this week. You know what you'll see until you look up.  I've also heard that only dreamers and artists look up.

Mar 24

part 2 of making the quilt

So yesterday I bought the fabric for the quilt.  Cut it out and started sewing.  I did more today.  It helped that I stayed home from school with 2 sick kiddos.  Again hoping to get it done by Friday....and if I keep it up it just might happen!  so in away this is like a self portrait...well of my hand and my sewing machine.  hehehe

Mar 22

piecing a quilt

I like to sew once in awhile.  I'm not as good as some of the people I know but I like to do it, when the sewing bug gets me.  I'm sewing a baby quilt.  I bought the fabric today and started it today.  I think it's coming along nicely.  I already cut the pieces out and and piecing it together now.  I do it in strips to make it easier for me when I sew it all together.  Hopefully if all goes well, I should have it done by Friday.
What do you think? 

Mar 21

Kylie dog

my little *OLD* yorkie, always looking for some comfy place to lay her head.  Tonight she decided that her dog bed would be the place to be...for now, it changes every few hours.  ;-)

Mar 20

nope nothing today

didn't have time to pick up my camera today 3/19....sorry

at the park

Boy, I like going to the park on a pretty day.  There were clouds in the sky and the sun wasn't really shining and it looks like rain, but it was warm and dry, the first really nice day of the year.  The chalk was in the hands of little kids and the blossoms were blooming on the trees.  What more could you ask for on a nice afternoon at the park?

Mar 18

 

Mrs. Potts

Nope, nothing green today.  I know it's St Patrice's day but, nope didn't want to look for something  green to photograph.  Just something around the house.  Mrs Potts from Beauty and the Beast.

Mar 17

I lied, I came across this as I went to get a glass of water, I even added a green tint to it.  LOL

squirrel

Looking down from my window and see morning light on a bare tree, but wait..what's that?  I take another look it's not just a tree but a squirrel in the tree.

Mar 16

something by the front door

I change the things around on the table by my front door for the season or just because I get tired of looking at it.  This is something that my son made in high school a few years back, it's kind of Picasso like face in 3D broken and put back together with wax and glue and some wooden spring flowers to get me in the mood for... well spring...if it ever gets here, it's been so cold lately.

Mar 15

red mortar hands

Just about every weekend since the end of Jan/being of Feb we've been working on our fireplace, ripping down the old mantle and putting up a faux stone hearth all the way to the ceiling.  It's been a long time in coming but it's also most done.  This weekend we started on the mortar and to do it I had to get up on the ladder and squeeze it into the spacings of the stone.  It's a red color and it looked really red going in, not only that it stained my hands red too...very red. I did find a way to get it off so my hands aren't red any more, coffee grounds and dish soap.  Worked like a dream, my hands are normal looking now....well I need a manicure but other then that they look normal ~can you guess what I'm doing tomorrow?  ;-)~

Mar 14

Menage a Trois

It a wine that my hubby got hooked on at a party that our friends R&M were having.  I'm not a red wine drinker but this is nice and smooth.  I just hope that it doesn't give me a headache like most red wine does.  It has 3 type of wines in it Zinfandel, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.

Mar 13

from the parking deck

I brought my camera with me today to school because yesterday's fog was so cool to see and well I was hoping that it would still be there.  Wrong.  It was raining and raining hard when got out.  I did get a cool photo of the King & Queen buildings, kind of surreal if you ask me.  Did do anything to the photo it is as I took it.  foggy, rainy and gray...lots of gray.

Mar 12

coffee cup

Oh how I love a good cup of Coffee, especially in the morning but, also in the afternoon once in awhile.  And today I wanted one after I got home from school, dreary days do that to me.  I love my Krueger coffee maker.  Makes good coffee fast, and if all you want is one cup it's so worth it.  I forgot that I didn't have any creamer, big bummer for someone who likes cream in my coffee.  But I was lucky the other day we had some brownie a la mode with whipped cream.  It looked so pretty in the red & white striped cup on the wooden butcher block with whipped cream on top.  The texture of them all together was just too cool not to snap a picture or 2.  After I told it and went to look at it I realized that the blue striped make it even more cool with all the lines going in different directions.

Mar 11

Publish Post

headstones on a gloomy day

I've been wanting to go to this local cemetery for awhile now.  For years I've been passing it and there is an angel you can see for the road I've always wondered about it but, lately I've wanted to photograph it in the rain.  Today was the day.  And....WOW! I would have never thought that I would see what I did. There were a lot of baby headstones.  It was so sad seeing them.  I don't get a chance to visit my son's grave, I know it's just his ashes and not him, but there are days when I would like to.  Today brought it home.  Seeing babies headstones, some in the same family.  They should have grown up together not be buried side-by-side living only a few days or months. But I guess living around the turn of the last century in a small town it was to be expected.  Still doesn't make it right.

Mar 10

I hate algebra

okay maybe that's not entirely true but I don't understand a lot of it.  This is my homework stuff that I did.  front and back of all the line paper.  Oh algebra is soooo much fun.....NOT!  Oh and I rock!   I got a 79% on my quiz last night that's why the photos is a day late.

Mar 9

Park in Early Spring

Love the first great warm sunny day of spring.  I took so many shots that I'm so happy with, here are my favorites I also took so great ones of T and her boot, you can see them on my other blog bluebox.blogspot.com
What is it about water fountains and kids?  I watched a lot of kids play in the water, but this one turned out the best..  And alone "Dora" ball waiting for someone to play it.

Mar 8

picture taking at the park

Went to the park today and boy was it crowded! There were so many people there it wasn't very fun.  But today I did something different for me....I took out my camera and took pictures of people and things.  I felt weird about it.  Taking photos of people who I didn't know.  This one is my favorite of the day, you can see the by the way the little girl standing she is thinking something like "Grandpa, I want to play.  Can we get this over with?"

Mar 7

2 beers and T's picture

I swear kids can make a room so messing just by being in the room.  After they went to bed. I look around the living room and realized that it needed to be clean...now.  As I was clean the living room, I saw this picture that T colored a few days ago.  I was thinking of it and thought I threw it away.  I'm glad that I was wrong, it's a cool looking picture.  I had a beer with dinner and and later I opened up another as I was cleaning up.  So glad that my sister B bought them when she was visiting, German beer rocks!  So this is the photo of the day, my 2 beer bottles and T's picture with 4 eyes.

Mar 6

quilt and a rose

I didn't know what to do today.  I was watching TV and saw the leather rose up against the quilt I made, yyyeeaaarrrrsss ago. If you've ever been in my home you've seen it.  I like the way the rose looks against the quilt and after I started taking the photos I noticed that an angel that my sister gave me.  If you look at the bottom right side you can see the top of it in from of the frame of my hubby and ^i^ son.

Mar 5

4 monkeys

Not all mine, but four monkeys none the less.  Nope scratch that, not monkeys but wild ones...yes definitely wild ones.  Having a great time laughing, giggling and throwing the little monkeys wild ones around to hear them screech with fear and joy, Edd says she doesn't like it and T screams "do it again, again!".  I don't know if you can see it in their faces how much fun they were having, but they were.  Kisses & hugs all around and the big monkeys wild ones left to come back later to make the littler one laugh and giggle another time.  I love my girls!  Oh and the guy isn't so bad for my oldest girl.either ;-)~

Mar 4

feety jammie

who says they're only for kids?  They're not.  *I* have one and love it. www.jumpinjammerz.com/  Great for those cold nights and just for kicking around in the house watching a movie with the kiddos.  Now this is as close and as much as you are going to see me in them.  My feet.  Don't they look cute?  Nope, no way, am I going to post a photo of me in them looking like a toddler.  I don't look like one of the models on their website and you can't pay me enough to take my picture and post it.  Sorry this is all the sexy you get to see with me in my feety jammies. ;-)~

Mar 3

I is cold

You've seen those LOL cats right?  Well this my not be a cat but the title sure does fit.  LOL Squirrel.

As I was getting myself another cup of coffee in my nice, warm, dry house, I look out the back door and see this cold, miserable squirrel sitting on the deck railing....oh just begging  to be photographed.  I grab my camera and take only one good shot before he look over his shoulder and scurries down.  But that was it!  I took it through the door window 'cause I'm nor crazy it was cold wet and yucky out.  I did think about putting more food out but I'm pretty sure that it would have been buried in all the wet snow we had today.

Mar 2

view from my back window

As I sit at my computer the only color out by back window is this little blue thing, I'm pretty sure that's from my flowers that I brought a few weeks ago. You might remember that I posted about them Feb 1 flowers.  Looks like the blues ones are still looking very vibrant a month out.  Gray and brown are the only colors that I see...all but that bright blue flower.
Today, I don't think that old saying "March coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb" is quite true, cold and blustery is the same as it was last week. 

Mar 1