Wild & Wonderful Wednesday #12

Hi there!  I'm so glad you are here!  Time for another Wild & Wonderful Wednesday.  I so appreciate all of you who stop by and link up or just leave a nice comment.  And even you lurkers (you know who you are).  :)  I was super excited to see so many link up last week!  The most since I've started W&WW.  So THANK YOU!

One day last week we had some beautiful weather for January.  Temps in the mid to upper 40s and gorgeous sunshine.  Oh, it was wonderful.  So wonderful, in fact, that once I put Alex on the bus for afternoon Kindergarten, I took advantage of the beautiful weather and went to a local bike trail to do some walking/running.  I, of course, took my camera along.  Here are just a few photos I snapped while out that afternoon ...

A rare self-portrait.  I don't know about you, but I have a very hard time with selfies.  So for this one, I put my camera on a bench beside the trail, unfocused my camera (yes, you read that right) :), and set the self-timer.  The funny thing is that I had to wait until some other walker went past before I could start.  I sat there fiddling around with my camera for a few minutes until she was far enough away.  I'm sure she would have thought I was very strange running back and forth in front of my camera.  :)

I know this is just a drainage ditch along the trail, but the way the sun was shining on it made it look so pretty.  Well, as pretty as a pile of rocks can be anyway.

This was just some grassy stuff along the trail that the sun was glimmering off of.  I used Kim Klassen's Sweettart texture on it.  I'm linking up with her this week for her "open" theme, since I was out on the open trail.  Too much of a stretch?  I think not.  :)

Now it is your turn!  Link up your Wild & Wonderful photos below.  

Just a few things first ...

1.  Grab my button for your post and link up below (or at least use a text link) so others can find out about Wild & Wonderful Wednesday.  Thank you!

2.  Link up your post URL (or Flickr photo URL), not your blog URL.

3.  Photos must be yours please.

4.  Try to visit and comment on a few other linker uppers. 

5.  You have until Saturday at midnight to link up!

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Wild & Wonderful Wednesday #11

Hello!  And welcome to another Wild & Wonderful Wednesday!  First off, let me apologize for not making it around to visit everyone who linked up last week.  I can't really blame it on anything other than our new Wii Fit Plus.  Or rather, my infatuation with it.  It is a great time waster.  BUT, I'm burning calories while wasting time so it's all good.  :)  Anyway, I'll try to do better this week!

My photos this week make me giggle.  I bought some party poppers for the kids to use on New Year's Eve.  But we didn't get to because Doug went to bed early, not feeling well, and we didn't want to be rude and wake him by making a bunch of noise.  So we just set them aside and had some quiet fun instead.  Last week the boys must have asked me every. single. day. when we were going to play with them.  So Saturday we finally had a chance.  I told them I wanted to try to get a photo of them popping.  I didn't get the photo I had pictured in my head, but the ones I did get just crack me up.

These are all basically SOOC because they weren't "great" photos and I didn't want to spend a lot of time editing them.  Just some sharpening and resizing for the web.

Now, I don't want you to pay attention to the party poppers.  I want you to see Alex's face as he's setting them off.  Even though his face is out of focus because I was focusing on the poppers, you can still see his expressions.

I was using my 50mm lens and quickly learned that I needed to back up!  :)  That was a close one!  I love that you can see the smoke though.

He was having a little technical difficulty with this one.  :)

There we go!  But I missed the pop!

His face in these just cracks me up!

Capturing the poppers popping was extremely difficult.  I might have to go back to the dollar store and stock up so we can have some fun.  And so I can get the photo I was hoping for.

Here's the mess we were left with on the floor afterwards.

As you may have guessed, this was my photo of the day on Saturday.

Now it is your turn!  Link up your Wild & Wonderful photos below.  

Just a few things first ...

1.  Grab my button for your post and link up below (or at least use a text link) so others can find out about Wild & Wonderful Wednesday.  (I reserve the right to delete links that don't follow this one simple rule.  K?  Thanks.).

2.  Link up your post URL (or Flickr photo URL), not your blog URL.

3.  Photos must be yours please.

4.  Try to visit and comment on a few other linker uppers (mine too please!  It is just rude to link up and not comment, don'tcha think?).  We know how much everyone loves comments!  

5.  You have until Saturday at midnight to link up!

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Wild & Wonderful Wednesday #10

Hello!  And welcome to another Wild & Wonderful Wednesday!


Well, we have been praying for snow.  Not because we need any additional precipitation, because we've had plenty of rain lately.  But because this is winter.  And when you live in Pennsylvania, you expect snow in the winter.  And in the fall.  And in the spring.  :)  But aside from a few brief snow showers here and there, nothing has really stuck around for long.

Until now.


It started snowing yesterday and continued overnight.  We woke up this morning to a good 6 inches of snow on the ground.  However, there was no school delay, which really surprised me since it was only about 16 degrees when Keira had to catch the bus.  I was pretty excited about the snow until I went outside and felt just how cold it was.  :)


But out I went anyway.  To help Doug shovel/sweep the driveway and to snap a few pictures, of course.

Honey, being the snow dog that she is, was in her glory.  She LOVES the snow.  It doesn't matter how cold it is, she wants to go out and play.  So we did.  A little.

     

Alex was having fun helping sweep the porch.  Once he pushed all the snow off, he jumped in the pile he made ... naturally!

The wind would whip the snow up from time to time.  And the sun was in and out all day.

Once he was done sweeping, Alex decided to go make a snow angel.  I don't know what Honey was doing.  Making sure he did it right, maybe?  

Alex asked me to photograph his angel.  He did pretty well!

Later in the day Honey and I went for a brief walk.  Brief ... because the wind was really blowing and my fingers were freezing pretty quickly.  It is really hard to change your camera settings when you can't feel your fingers.  :)  Even with two pairs of gloves on.


Right now the thermometer reads 7 degrees, which is kind of funny because the low for today was supposed to be 14 degrees.  Tomorrow is supposed to be a more tolerable 31 degrees, so hopefully we'll get outside to play some more.

Now it is your turn!  Link up your Wild & Wonderful photos below.  

Just a few things first ...

1.  Grab my button for your post and link up below (or at least use a text link) so others can find out about Wild & Wonderful Wednesday.  (I reserve the right to delete links that don't follow this one simple rule.  K?  Thanks.).

2.  Link up your post URL (or Flickr photo URL), not your blog URL.

3.  Photos must be yours please.

4.  Try to visit and comment on a few other linker uppers (mine too please!  It is just rude to link up and not comment, don'tcha think?).  We know how much everyone loves comments!  

5.  You have until Saturday at midnight to link up!

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I will do my best to visit each of you this week.  I do always try, but sometimes life just gets in the way.  Please know that I appreciate each and every one of you that link up with me each week!


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