Thinking about Christmas

I recently bought this wire tree that is a Christmas card holder. It's about 3 feet tall. I hung it on my (ugly, builder's beige) wall and shot the photo. Then I changed the background by overlaying a textured digital background paper, added the borders, and added the text. We might use it as our Christmas card this year, especially since we haven't gotten around to getting a family photo.

Oh deer

I still haven't edited my vacation photos from July. I forgot I got a picture of this little girl.
Shot at nearly dusk, 70-300 lens at 300mm, cropped

Jocko

You know it's going to take me a while to run out of cow photos.

Thanksgiving

I'm thankful for all my POTD friends. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday.

Again with the cows

Moo.

Yellow mums

Turkey

It's almost Turkey Day!

You can run, but you can't hide. Seriously, I can still see you, turkey.

These were taken in July, but they seem appropriate this week.
Speaking of Thanksgiving, I'm hosting dinner for 21 people. WTH was I thinking?

A project

One of my favorite bloggers, Cari, posted some projects she did http://hailiriley.blogspot.com/2008/11/getting-crafty.html and they were so pretty I decided to try. Here's mine. It was a fun way to use up some of the many scrapbook supplies I have.
Eww, nice dog snot on the window.

Leaves, acorns, and a pinecone

I'm totally sick of my dead leaf photos, but I've been too busy to pick up my camera as much as I'd like, so here's another one.

I got tagged by Bobbi http://bobbi2156.blogspot.com/ The rules were to post my 4th picture of my 4th month of my blog. I started this blog in January to do POTD, so some of you saw this back in April:

Here's the one from my family blog: September 2006, pre-DSLR days. DD (in the middle) with two of her friends in the car on our way to soccer. Those two girls are still at my house all the time. In fact, the one on the right is here now.

Another old frosty leaf

Rainbows and red leaves

Same rainbow as the other day. This is the closest I've ever come to seeing the "end of the rainbow."

This one was actually taken a couple of weeks ago. The leaves on this bush are now brown and/or gone.

On the Road

The theme this week is "on the road." Seems appropriate given that my son started driver's ed this week. He'll be on the road with his permit in just a few short weeks.
As parents we're always wishing time would slow down. But sometimes it's like "No, really I mean it!!" This is one of those times for me. He's still my little pumpkin.
Even if he could now squish me like a bug if he wanted to. He doesn't turn 16 until August, though, so I have some time before he can get his license and I have to let him go a little bit more.

Here's another video. It has nothing to do with my post or the theme; I just think it's funny.

Water drops

Practicing water drops again. I still bow to Pat's excellence.

Rainbow

In my backyard yesterday.

Another leaf

Yet another leaf. At least this one is from this year.

Here's a video for you: "Ain't gonna bump no more (with no big fat woman)

It's not very nice, but this BFW finds it hilarious.

Oak leaves

I'm cheating wicked bad. This shot is more than a year old. But I did edit it today.

Football Coach

I like those "kid(s) in the foreground, parents in the background" shots I see by portrait photographers. Since I don't have any cute families around to try that out on, here's my take on the technique. It's DS's football coach observing his team.

A sunset

Just a sunset (from my favorite cow field).

Lilac leaves

The lilacs were the last leaves to fall in my yard:

In honor of Veteran's Day

More from my favorite cow

Whachu talkin bout, Willis?


I can't stop visiting him. Her?

Rose bush

Football

The high school football season is over. Here are a few of my son (#16 in navy blue) at his last game:



Touchdown!

Angles

There are all kinds of right angles in my front door.

I love the glass in my front door. I love the little red squares. My front door makes me happy. Speaking of angles, it's hard to get a photo of my door that's not angled or crooked because I can't back up with my camera without getting on the stairs and getting weird slants.

Old sink

Hmmm...I should have straightened that first one. Oh well.
This old sink is in this building at a local cemetery:

Fall in Maine

I used a trial version of one of those HDR plug-ins that I forgot I had downloaded (mine's called Redynamix from DCE) until people on 2Peas posted some examples recently.

It runs in the family

After my son's football game on Monday I was taking a photo of one of his friends with his dad, and what does my son do?
He hadn't even seen my photo bombing post! I guess it runs in the family. On both sides. (This looks better without the faces blacked out, but I'm sure you understand.)

Here's a photo of that same friend from the game. Whee!

I hope you don't mind a little mommy brag about this game. My son's football team has had a rough couple of seasons. Last year the varsity team's record was 0-9 and the JV team's 1-8. This year varsity went 2-7, as did the JV team. We're talking some really huge blowout losses too. It's been a bummer.
Cam is a sophomore and plays both varsity and JV. Monday was the last game of the season, a JV game. Cam's team won 60-0, and he scored four touchdowns, including a fumble he scooped up and ran back for a TD.
Bye-bye football season. It was nice to go out on a good note.

I voted today--and got my free Starbucks. I'm a Dunkin Donuts girl, but I'll drink Starbucks if it's free.

Mustaches

One of my favorite blogs is from our fellow POTD participant, Bobbi. Not only does she take beautiful photos, she's hilarious. The other day she had a great post about her husband's facial hair. You can see it here: Bobbi's blog by scrolling to her October 27 entry (check out her Trek or Treat post while you're at it--good stuff!) I had a great laugh checking out her DH's mustache. What's important to note, however, as we move on to this next photo is that Bobbi's husband's mustache was a JOKE.

I mentioned in yesterday's post that I'd been pawing around in my old photos. I came across this little gem from when DH and I were first dating. Me and future hubby, circa December 1987.
That mustache was no joke.
I could make fun of it, but get a load of my sweet red leggings with matching turtleneck. We're a match made in heaven.
This photo was taken very early in our relationship. I know this because we went home for Christmas break three weeks after we met and he shaved off the 'stache then and hasn't had one since.
What I find striking about it now is that we have a whole bunch of photos of us in our 20+year relationship where we have just these expressions on our faces: me grinning like a fool and him looking slightly annoyed.
Like I said, a match made in heaven.

I also got tagged by Celine yesterday. blog
Here’s the rules of the tag:
1. Get the book on your nightstand (or whatever book you are currently reading).
2. Open it to page 56 and find the 5th sentence.
3. Post the next couple of sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.
4. Do not go and find your favorite book, it has to be the one you are reading now!
5. Tag 5 other people to do the same.


"But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed. In the bathtub this person pushes the bubbles around and listens to the sound of millions of them popping at once."

I kind of like this line from page 60 better: "It was wood-paneled and smelled like pee, as so many things do."

Now for the 5 people I'll tag (sorry if you've already been tagged): Amy M., Amy S., Angela, Sharon, and Margaret.