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Faith's photo challenge this week is your favorite photo.  I have so many that I love it was hard to chose just one.  But I did.  And this is it ...

I just love this photo of Keira that I took earlier this month.  She was outside in her purple bath robe (fully dressed underneath, in case you were wondering) :) to help me get some purple photos for Ashley's Scavenger Hunt and the Shades of Autumn photo challenge.

BTW, make sure to check out and link up with this week's Wild & Wonderful Wednesday!

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Wild & Wonderful Wednesday #2

Welcome back to my second week of Wild & Wonderful Wednesday!  Today just happens to be the 15th wedding anniversary for Doug and me.  Wow!  I can't believe it has been 15 years! I don't think I'm old enough to have been married that long.  :)


Thank you to everyone who linked up last week!  And for those of you who gave my new photo party a shout out on your blog!  (you know who you are)  :)

I have a variety of photos to share this week.  Just a few that I took recently that make me smile.

I took Alex to the playground on Saturday while his sister was on a field trip to the circus and his brother was at a birthday party.  He apparently thought it was more fun to ride on the dino's head than on its back.  :)

We brought home some milkweed seed pods the other day so we can plant the seeds for our future Monarchs.  I thought it would be fun to see what I could get with my macro filter and the fluffy stuff that the seeds are attached to.  Well, let me tell you ... photographing milkweed fluff is no easy task.  First, don't breathe or it will fly away.  Second, don't let the dog walk past wagging her tail or it will fly away.  Third, don't let the kids run past or ... well you get the idea.  :)  For this photo, I added a layer of soft pink at 16% opacity.  Mouse over to see the clean edit version.
             

This bird stayed in the tree long enough for me to get off a couple shots.

Since we removed Alex's training wheels, he just keeps getting better and better at riding his bike.  As I wrote on Monday, I had to do a lot of running to keep up with him on the bike trail.  He was doing awesome!  Now I'm thinking he needs a new bike for Christmas.  His legs are getting a little long for this one.  :)

Anytime I try to take pictures of Nicholas, I always end up with a few faces like this.  This boy knows how to make me smile.

Finally, I dare you to look at this and not smile.  Can't do it, can you?  :)


Now it's your turn to link up your Wild and/or Wonderful photos!
Just a few things first ...
1.  Grab my button and link up below.
2.  Link up your post URL (or Flickr photo URL), not your blog URL.
3.  Photo(s) must be yours please.
4.  Try to visit and comment on a few other linker uppers.  We know how much everyone loves comments!
5.  Please bear with me while I work out the kinks of my new photo party!  Thanks!



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Wild & Wonderful Wednesday #1

Welcome to my first ever Wild & Wonderful Wednesday photo link up!  I am excited that you are here!  And I can't wait to see all the wonderful photos you link up this week!


To play along all you need to do is link up your wild and/or wonderful photo(s) from the past week or so.  Wild could be some beautiful flowers, a gorgeous landscape, an adorable critter, or even your wild and crazy kid(s)!  And wonderful could be anything you think is wonderful.  As you can imagine, I'm pretty flexible.  I just want you to show off your incredible photos!

But first, here are a few of my wild and wonderful photos ...


of my wild and crazy Nicholas!  :)

I was looking through photos the other night and noticed that I am lacking in pictures of Nicholas.  Well, good pictures.  Ones where he's not making some goofy face or looking away from the camera.  You know, the normal photos I tend to get of him.  :)

So we set out last evening to remedy that situation.

We had a good time, as you can see.  And got some more goofy faces.  :)



But I think we also got some really good pictures.

And we are both pretty pleased with the photos we got.

I can't decide if I like this one better in color or B&W.  What do you think?

So that's it for me.  Now it is your turn.  Just a few details first ...
1. Grab my button and link up below.
2.  Link up your post URL, not your blog URL.
3.  Try to visit and comment on a few other posts.  We know how much everyone loves comments!
4. Please bear with me while I work out any kinks since this is the first week!  Thanks!  :)


Happy Wednesday!

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Photo of the Day: October 4

ISO 800, f/22, 1/50s, 18-55mm lens with 10x macro filter on Nikon D40

Faith's photo challenge for this week is What Makes You Smile?  Besides my family, being able to get out and play with my camera makes me smile (even if it is my old camera while my new one is still in the shop - still on parts hold!).  It is how I learn ... by messing up A LOT ... and eventually getting a photo that I love.

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