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Showing posts with label weeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weeds. Show all posts

Friday, November 1, 2013

Nurture Photography ~ Purple/Spooky

We've explored green, yellow, orange, and red so far this autumn.  This week we were challenged to find purple.  Challenging as it was, I managed to find a few early in October.

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I even found a spooky little someone.
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We have passed our peak with the colorful trees.  I will miss autumn and all the gorgeous hues.  But I'm looking forward to sled rides and hot cocoa and all the other fun that accompanies winter.  Kind of.  Maybe.  :)

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope to be back next week with some brown/tabletop photos to share.  Have a great week!

Nurture Photography Challenge - Autumn 2013 Edition

Friday, November 9, 2012

Nurture Photography - Brown

With winter just around the corner there's no shortage of brown around here, so I thought I'd participate in this week's Nurture Photography challenge.

Our brown consists of deer ...
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crunchy leaves ...
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sleeping hibiscus flowers ... 
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corn tassels for decoration ...
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pretty weeds ...
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and a big pile of leaves to jump in.
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Thanks for stopping by to see what autumn looks like in my neck of the woods!  Be sure to stop over at Kristi's or Rebecca's for more great fall photos.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

P52: Things that grow

Things that grow
Lots and lots of fluffy dandelions growing in our yard this spring.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Shades of White

The first of all single colors is white ...

flowers

We shall set down white for the representative of light,

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without which no color can be seen;

flower buds
{Katie Lloyd's Vintage Polaroid frame/action used}

yellow for the earth;

dandelion

green for water;

frost

blue for air;

snow

red for fire;

mums

and black for total darkness.


Grassy stuff :)



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{Photo of the day - November 17 - ISO 400,f /5.6, 1/640s, 18-105mm lens on Nikon D3100 - Kim Klassen's Silence texture added}

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge Give me your best shot at Better in Bulk PhotoStory Friday   Deanna Leigh *Photography~Life. Captured.
                                 Hosted by Cecily and Lolli

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Shades of Brown

Brown was one of the easier colors to find this fall.

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We've got lots of brown all around us now that the trees are almost bare.

Horse
I realize this horse is brown all year round, but I just took this photo of him the other day.  :)

Me
(My daughter took this photo of me.  I processed it with The Coffee Shop Blog's Velvet Truffle action.)
My good friend, Laura, started crocheting hats and selling them.  In a short amount of time, she has turned her hobby into a profitable at-home business.  I asked her if she could make me a headband to match my winter coat (I don't do hats :)) and this is what she made.  I love it!  My ears will never be cold again!  Check her out on Facebook at Wix Works.

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These brownish weeds used to be goldenrod, I believe.  And, yeah, there's that horse again.  :)


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If you have boys, you can probably appreciate that my five-year-old calls this the "poop tree". :)


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One lonely leaf on my porch.  Texture by Shadowhouse Creations.

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And instead of bombarding you with more photos, I made a collage.  You are welcome.  :)
(If you've been following my blog for a while, you've seen a few of these already.)
Clockwise starting at top left ...
Alex in his brown sweatshirt looking all sweet.  (This is just after he screamed at me NOT to take his picture and I said okay without a fight).  :)
Thistle with some pretty leaves still in the background.
A barn surrounded by a ready-to-harvest field of soybeans.
Nick and his yummy chocolate-brown eyes.
A dead flower.
Some pretty weeds.  I think they used to be purple flowers.


I've really enjoyed this challenge.  It has made me seek out colors and see things in ways I may not have seen them.  Which is pretty cool.
Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Week 41 Summary

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9 - Fun at the farm - this baby horse was very curious about my camera.  Tracey picked this as one of her Top 5 photos this week!  Thank you, Tracey!
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10 - Alex being goofy, as usual
15 - Pretty weeds from yesterday's nature walk

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Photo of the Day: October 15

October 15
ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/200s, 18-55mm lens on Nikon D40
Spending the day in the house trying to get some things accomplished today, so I'm using a photo from yesterdays' nature walk.  Just some weeds growing alongside the neighbor's pond.  Texture is all natural.  :)

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Week 35 Summary

Week-35-Collage
We had another fun, busy week.  The kids all returned to school on Wednesday and we are all adjusting to getting up early once again.  Ugh.  You will notice that I filled all 8 spots in my collage this week.  That is because I posted photos of all 3 kids on the 31st and didn't have the heart to leave someone out.  :)


For those of you that are interested in an update on my broken camera ... the current status is that Nikon is waiting for parts to repair it.  It has been on "parts hold" for a few days now, so hopefully they will get them soon and get busy!  I want my camera back!

Anyway, here is our week in pictures ...
28 - Cool mushroom in our neighbor's yard.
29 - Pretty purple flowers (weeds?).  Tracey chose this as one of her Top 5 this week.  Thanks, Tracey!

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30 - Dragonfly love.  :)
31 - Back to school.  Keira started 7th grade; Nick - 3rd grade; and Alex - Kindergarten.  They all catch the bus at different times, which is why I didn't get a photo of them all together.
1 - Black-eyed Susans after the rain.
2 - Popcorn and movie night is a weekly tradition in our house on Fridays.
3 - Alex with his new-to-him toy we picked up at a consignment sale today.



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Hope you have a wonderful week!

Monday, August 29, 2011

Photo of the Day: August 29

August 29
ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/250s, 18-105mm lens on Nikon D40
Today was our first practice day for getting up for school.  Keira got up at 6:00 since, until later this morning (and another phone call to Transportation), we had no idea what time she would be catching the bus.  Turns out she won't need to get up quite so early.  Yay!  I got up at 6:30 to make sure she had gotten up and ready as if she were going to school.  She did and was just reading quietly.  Then since I was already up, I threw on my running clothes and went for my morning run.  It was coooooooooold outside!  Who knew 52 degrees could feel so cold?!  But after about a mile and a half, I started to warm up.  :)  It felt good to be done with my exercise and ready to start my day by 8:30.

I know you are wondering ... what does that have to do with this picture?  Um, nothing actually.  :)  This photo was taken at my church where we went to play this evening.  The kids like to ride their bikes in the parking lot and play at the play ground.  I like to walk around and photograph stuff.  I'm sure these purple flowers are weeds, but they are very pretty anyway.

Now I am rather tired, since I'm not used to getting up so early, so I'm off to bed.  Another early day tomorrow.  Then school starts for us on Wednesday!