
New little baby geese, how cute ans fuzzy they are.
New little baby geese, how cute ans fuzzy they are.
When I was a kid I learned from other kids on the block about making prank phone calls. This is before caller ID and you just dialed a number at random. There are a few standard ones like “excuse me but is your refrigerator running? Then catch it!” Another one that I didn’t understand as a kid was “Do you have Prince Albert in a can? Then let him out!” It makes so much sense if you know that it is a type of tobacco.
That is a close up guitar strings.
One of my favorite hobbies is photography. I love going out for a day and shooting a lot of photos. If you look you can see my reflection of me taking the photo.
Maybe refreshing isn’t the right word for this. If your not familiar with the Charlton Heston movie “Soylent Green” I suggest you look it up for it’s one famous line in the whole movie. I can’t say I will be trying this drink anytime soon since I know what Soylent green is made from.
Marbles are nice and hard and so pretty to look at.
I don’t consider this cheating because it says Peaches on it.
So does this map provide proof that the world is round or flat?
The little seat thief strikes again, but who doesn’t enjoy a soft pillow to lay their head on.
I’m not sure what these little lavender flowers are but they sure are pretty.
A is for Alke-Seltzer and boy do I feel better already. Thanks Speedy for saving the day.
In my hand I hold a true evil genius from childhood. Simon Bar Sinister evil villain to Underdog and one of the best bad guy names.
To see the top of this hotel you have to look up. I love the blue color of the building against the bright blue sky.
Coffee the life blood of the week day.
It is just a collection of coins saved from different countries.
A beautiful bead of water hidden inside the center of a cabbage looking plant.
I am sure there are much sillier things out there in this big big world. A girl kissing a giant blue snail looks a little silly to me.
Anyone want to color?
With all the architectural choices in a concrete world, I chose a staircase inside the School of Architecture building at Ball State University. It seemed like an appropriate choice to me.
Daffodils are the first flowers to bloom in my yard. Happy spring!
Happiness is a delicious Taco, even Butters agrees.
Snow in March, of course.
I used a watercolor app on this photo to make it look like a watercolor painting.
This is a cast iron pan up close and personal.
For all you youngsters out there who don’t know what these are……they are Records. They are the original CD……wait you don’t know what a CD is? That’s right everything is digital these days…….I feel old.
Well I don’t have a kite, and don’t really know when I will manage to get a photo of a kite. Instead here is a lovely rainbow to brighten your rainy day.
I didn’t get your name is Mr. Walrus but it sure looks like your enjoying all that water.
Pisanki are the decorated Easter eggs in Poland. Interesting fact: The oldest decorated eggs discovered on Polish lands come from the 10th century. The ritual of “writing” on the eggs was preformed during times of fasting (Lent) before Easter. Women would prepare the eggs 3-4 weeks before Easter on Wydmuszki (emptied eggshells).
The most interesting part for me is we always had these eggs up at Easter and I knew them as Polish Easter eggs. I looked up some history about them to have proper information for the photo. In the process I learned stuff about my own culture that I hadn’t previously known.
You spring is here when you have little green plants sprouting up.
ONE
You’ve got one life,
You’ve got one glove,
You’ve got one game,
You’ve got one love,
You’ve got one chance,
You’re just one man,
So play the this game as hard as you can.
Author unknown
How lucky am I, I won a whole $1…..WOO HOO!
Green means GO GO GO…………..unless your turning.
I can’t figure out why garden would be a good choice for a March photo idea. Just to clarify the topics are not something I am choosing on my own but have a calendar with a different topic for each day. Gardens haven’t even been planted yet seeing as how it snowed yesterday gardens are all brown still with maybe some sprouts popping up. These are giant fake flowers and a giant pinwheel as part of a spring display at the Indianapolis zoo.
I like this as an abstract and almost want to leave it that way. I unfortunately am the type of person that will stare at this photo trying to figure out what it really is. If you are that person also then this is the concrete ceiling of a parking garage taken through the back window of a car. The lines are made from the heating strips in the car window that I shot through.
In photography, bokeh (Japanese [boke]) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image.
I tried to hang the spoon from my nose but failed miserably.
This table is actually a matching set of two tables. When they are set together they can either be a square or an even bigger triangle. These tables are one of my better art projects from college. They are made out of red oak and the color of the wood is not stain but just a clear finish. In order to make the legs I first had to make a wooden mold in the shape of the legs. To make the legs strong enough to hold the ceramic top I had to cut thin strips of the wood. The strips of wood were then glued together and clamped in the mold to dry the shape I created. I also made the ceramic tiles for the top and painted them so when the tables are together in a square it would form a solid pattern. To sum it up, Power tools are fun!
To be honest I don’t know what this is supposed to be. It is someones class project I saw in the hallway of the Architecture building at Ball State University.
I imaging it has a backstory about how we ruined our planet with pollution and maybe nuclear war. The surface of the Earth is no longer habitable and we have to create a new wold deep below the Earths surface in order to stay warm and survive. At least in this story Artificial Intelligence hasn’t taken over the world and is trying to kill us like in the Matrix or Terminator.
What? To literal for you?
If you have ever eaten at a Big Woods restaurant then you already know that everything on the menu is delicious. You are looking at a Gochujang BBQ grilled shrimp taco. It has watermelon radish, avocado, sriracha sour cream, Napa cabbage and micro cilantro. On the side is a jalapeno corn salsa and a six foot blond beer by Quaff On. Eating out can be hard to find “healthy” options. I don’t know about the calorie count on this but it sure made my mouth and belly happy.
Is this to literal for you? First the Meerkat is looking left then he is looking right which happens to be the opposite way.
When the first box is empty but not enough to fill the bowl do you eat one cereal then refill it with a second cereal? I went half and half and saved myself the effort of getting up for the rest of a bowl of cereal. Another way of looking at this is you have your fun cereal on the left and your healthy adult cereal on the right.
Flamingos are such a beautiful color.
M is for mouth watering marvelous meat loaf from the Mayberry Cafe. It is just like Aunt Bee used to make (well I imagine if she were real).
I took a few liberties with this title. The orangutan isn’t next to me because there was to much of a crowd to get up to the glass. What I do find interesting is who is watching whom here? The orangutan is just hanging out not doing much. Does that make us more the more interesting ones behind the glass to watch? What a crazy species to observe………humans that is.
Inspiration is a tough one. One reason I am doing a 365 day photo challenge is to help inspire myself. I am sure you have noticed that I am behind on blogging my days. I got stuck due to a lack of inspiration on some of the topics. How do you photograph inspiration when you don’t have any inspiration and that is something you are hoping to find.
The long and winding road
That leads to your door
Will never disappear
I’ve seen that road before
It always leads me here
Lead me to you door
Beatles
I had to cheat on this photo since the flowers arn’t up yet. The Hydrangea is one of my favorite flowers. The flower petals all grow in a nice tight ball and is creates a beautiful texture. A neat fact about this flower is if you have one planted you can change the color of the flowers. By making the soil more acidic you will get blue or lavender flowers. Alkaline soil will turn blooms more pink in color. This flower was blue when i bought it but after planting it it changed because of my soil PH.
So it is another dog photo I know…….but when it comes to comfort he has it down to an art. Maybe that is why he is always stealing my seat every time I get up.
When potato’s go bad. Mr. Potato Head was tired of being bald and tried to grow hair, he should have went to the hair clinic instead.
Ever wonder what your taste buds look like? You can stop wondering, they may be tiny but they are sure mighty in the wonderful world of flavor.
My Precious
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them: J.R.R. Tolkien said it best
My neighborhood is much like a lot of other neighborhoods you have probably driven through. A nice quiet subdivision with nice quaint (that means small but not tiny) houses that mostly all look the same. Thanks to a lovely housing association there are limited colors you can put on the outside of your house and don’t let your grass grow over 6 inches high. On the upside to that my neighbors can’t paint their house any crazy colors either so it is all fair in the end. Nothing against my neighbors, but there is one house that I feel like if they could it would be a rather vibrant color otherwise.
There is a great game store I venture out to from time to time. In addition to having games to buy they also have tables and a wall of open games you can try out. Being able to try them out before you buy them is such a great idea.
Kids, cute little kids. If you didn’t know baby goats are called kids. I lucked out since I have a friend with a farm and lots of little baby goats running around. They are adorable and I even got to feed one.
Farm fresh eggs straight from the chicken’s…………um well, straight from the chicken. They made a delicious omelette for dinner.
These were small wacky heads on the ends of pencils. They make writing fun.
When you go for a drive in farm-town USA you have to be prepared to be stuck behind a tractor. This one was transporting large hay bails.
What could be more standard for date night then popcorn and a movie. So glad they have comfy reclining assigned seating now.
There are many forms of love. The love of a parent for their children or children for their parents. Romantic love between a couple of soul mates who were “meant to be”. There is also the unconditional love of a furry best friend who wants to keep your lap warm and maybe get a belly rub in return.
There are hearts everywhere right now since it is a sappy mushy love filled holiday. Mmmmmmm CAKE!
Chalky sweet conversation hearts a valentines day staple. They are more fun to read then they are to eat.
Lips, well they look a little dry and could use some ChapStick they they will be ready for that kiss.
When I was a girl in my teens I was lead to believe from movies and TV shows that romance is candle lit dinners with flowers and chocolates. Sipping fancy wine in front of a roaring fire while laying on a fur rug in front of it. Well I’m not in my teens and after being married for 10 years now I can proudly say that romance is the little things that you don’t ask for. Coming home from work and finding a hot dinner waiting for you ready to eat. A clean kitchen with the dishwasher filled and ran already so you have something to eat on or with. True romance is more about respect and appreciation then flowers and candy.
Fuzzy was easy to think of lots of shots I could take. There is a fuzzy dog, fuzzy blanket, fuzzy beard, but this one I found to be perfectly outside the box. Not only is it named Fuzzy’s but if I were to drink enough of it I myself would be all warm and fuzzy.
I have heard that laughing is one of the most infectious things……..I would say it is second to yawning unless we want to discuss super bugs that that’s a whole different conversation.
Today I decided to make it 2 for the price of one. the top image was taken on a beautiful sunny day while waiting for an eclipse to happen. The bottom image is fog, which is what the entire week has looked like. Today it is raining so there are plenty of clouds but nothing good to see.
D is for……Delectably Delightful Decant Delicious Dunkin’ Donuts.
Year of the boar was difficult. I read up on the zodiac info about it and tried to think outside the box. In the end all I could find was some pigs with wings. It may not be a great subject but I do like the shine on them.
Hello Indianapolis.
Superbowl Sunday, didn’t really care much for who was playing. I had it on in the background and watched a few commercials. Instead we learned how to play a new deck building game. I rather enjoy the deck building games where we work cooperatively against a villain. It is friendlier to not competing against each other that way if we win we both win.
I spy Woodstock!
A delicious New York strip steak covered in salt and pepper about to be cooked. AKA: RED meat
This is taken at the Hoover damn last March. It is a beautiful sight with the different shades of brown and blue filling the photo. The water level was down a lot since the light rock had been covered with water at one point. The low water level is not a good thing for all people living in a desert but it is a beautiful sight of colors.
Yummy Navel oranges. Here is a question for you why are they called navel oranges? They are to big to fit in a navel (not that I have tried). Since everything is found on the internet these days I decided to look it up. It turns out that they are named for the navel-like spot that is found on the blossom end of the fruit. I might have to check the next one for navel lint before i peal it.
This photo would have been so much easier to do on my manual camera. I am re-familiarizing myself with my digital camera and finding the right settings in the menu took a while. I guess that is a good reason to know where you put your manual. After multiple tries with F stops and shutter speed combos I finally managed to get a nice blurred pendulum.
If you are unsure of what you are looking at it is a necklace. I love the extreme depth of focus on this photo. It causes most of the image to be out of focus drawing your eye right to the little blue ball. All of the blurry sparkles of light in the background seem to dance around the focal point and make it shimmer.
Yes this is a photo taken of the TV screen, but darn it if that isn’t cold. Thanks global warming for a harsh reminder that it is January and still winter.
Friends are what you make of the. They don’t have to speak the same language, or even be human. Butters is my loyal friend and he is snuggled up with his friend brown dog. I can’t say I know what he named his brown dog because we don’t happen to speak the same language very often.
I imagine a world full of good people and happiness. I imagine a world where no one feels the need to hide their true selves from the world. I imagine a world where we don’t need to judge but rather accept people for their strengths as well as their weakness. I’m not saying that we all have to like one another, i’m saying that we all need to have mutual respect for one another.
I feel silly for using ice cubes when it is winter and there must be something frozen outside. I was the frozen item outside trying to find a good shot of something frozen so ice cubes it is.
Peach pie, cherry pie, strawberry pie, strawberry rhubarb pie, apple pie with crust top, apple pie with crumbly top, blueberry pie, sugar cream pie, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, pudding pie, french silk pie, peanut butter pie, veggie pie, chicken pot pie, and pizza pie. I know I have left some out but really for me it is just to hard to choose a favorite. Pie should be its own food group and I like them all.
I have to admit I myself have problems with the statement as I am sure some of you do as well. I was actually told this by “a friend” but not sure why. What does the handwriting of a serial killer even look like and how would she possibly know? I think the statement would be more entertaining if it were “I have been told I have the handwriting of a CEREAL killer”. I do like a tasty cereal for breakfast so that would be more accurate for me. I have no idea what my handwriting actually says about me except it is sloppy and unrefined. That I am fine with, as I am some what unrefined.
Tea Time.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz……………….. Sleeping, shut up.
Popcorn oh popcorn what a wonderful treat. You can be salty or you can be sweet. I like to feel your special kind of crunch between my teeth. Popcorn oh popcorn you sure are neat.
Goat hugs are very therapeutic. Have you hugged a goat today?
This is a piece of wooden art that was made in Madrid Spain. To most who will view this it will be just nice intertwined circles. If you happen to be a hard core Doctor Who fan then you will see even close up it is more then just circles. Gallifrey Falls No More!
A nice hot mug of coco topped with whip cream, caramel sauce and cute candy cane sprinkles. What better way to warm up on this cold snowy day.
Today Wicket is looking rather stylish in his Muttley ball cap. He is of course is a long time fan of the show. If you are wondering where you can get a Hawaiian shirt like his, it is a hand made one of a kind made in the 1980’s. I guess that makes it vintage now.
There is nothing quite like a cozy corner on a quiet night with a warm blanket and a good book. It is the perfect way to relax away the day.
Now that’s one BIG hot dog!
If you are wondering where the picture of the sunrise is……well keep wondering. Between sleeping in and snow and overcast conditions it wasn’t worth it. I will update as soon as I manage to get a sunrise. In the mean time enjoy a puppy sleeping in the warm morning sunshine.
I realize that the difference in these two photos is minimal at first glance. When I start to compare them the black and white one helps to show in the color photo just how many colors there are in the tree bark. There is pink and green tones and even a little yellow spot. The snow may be just white but in the color photo it has a more of a blue hue to it. The black and white photo has great contrast and texture. I love how the world can look so different from black and white to color. It is all a matter of how you choose to see it.
I spy with my little eye a storm coming, after all it is winter. Time to bundle up and stay warm.
Do you ever look at a set of stairs and wonder where they go? Whats up at the top awaiting me to find? There is only one way to answer that and that is to climb the stairs and see. One……..Two………Three……..Four……….ugh…… there are too many stairs, maybe I will look for an elevator instead.
C is for CLAW.
Dreams are something we want or desire weather consciously or subconsciously. What do little doggies desire? Speaking strictly for Butters it would be a 10 pack taco kit from taco bell. Ten delicious tacos is what dreams are made of.
Dark is the absence of light so how do I photograph dark without light? I would end up with a solid black rectangle. I tried many different lights from a candle to a night light. I ended up liking the look of the washing machine power button and dial in the dark. It has a UFO landing kind of glow to it. It is a good thing I know this is a washing machine or I might have to say that this is actually a weather balloon collecting atmospheric data.