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here comes the sun...

...but it never did.

popcorn

it has been a hectic day...just part of a stressful week...but thanks to matt, i have a photo to post and have not broken my streak :D

i really enjoyed spending time together! i'm glad you want to learn how to make popcorn and are going to keep coming back. love you! and thanks for looking at my blog.

on your marks....

as part of my many things that i hope to change/improve this year...keeping our home better ... cleaner, neater...etc. is near the top of the list (i am an AWFUL housekeeper)...several bloggers shared their methods for keeping house : doing a small list of cleaning/organizing each day (same "agenda" each week)....and today was kitchen day....i have been working at it all day (and not feeling like there is much to show for it)...oh well....gotta try something, gotta start somewhere...

are those raindrops ... or...?

i really like this one. there was a photography book that i saw once (before kids when we used to go spend hours in the book stores) that was all streaks of colors from motion blur taken from car windows (at least i think thats what it was)...i tried to find it to link to it...not going to happen tonight.

faster than the speed of light

this photo is a perfect depiction of noelle...she is constantly in motion! ... i had to try to take this a bunch of times because i couldnt even get her to stay within the frame...she is one energy filled, busy gal.

zelda

Momentum

so, how many days into this am i? (day 9 - i just checked) ... and i almost threw in the towel...i have a few photos that i took - i haven't decided which i will post... with a major limiting factor of 4 walls - i don't know how i will EVER come up with a photo a day through the winter... ok so i know the problem is that i want each and every photo to be interesting...if its not perfect i hate doing it...BUT i'm not going to quit just yet (hey and i can tell myself kelly is counting on me, im not ready to let her (you) down).... i will probably ask jeff to choose which to post....

.....to be continued.

part duex

should've

well...today was a crappy day...so i hadn't done my photo - hadn't even taken one let alone one worth posting..i was going to cheat and use an extra one from yesterday (since they day is almost over, my hands are full, and i just don't feel like it...)...but i decided to try anyhow... also not going to make it to the top 10 (but i can say the rejects were worse) ... i hope tomorrow is better...i really am hoping to feel like i have a few things on track by the end of the month...that would really make a difference...

with all the beautiful snow that has been falling....as much as i hate the cold...i really really want to spend some time in the park photographing....i love the muffled silence....and i also want to go sled riding and i want to photograph the kids sledding, etc. ... just like so many other things right now, i want to be able to do it all ... do it all at the same time ...and do it all right now

amazing

snowflakes are so amazing! i love when you can see each individual one in all of its glory... i wish i could take photographs like this...


simply amazing!

headache

thought i'd better get this one posted...because today ... well isnt going so well...so there *brushing off hands* done...che-eck.

nailed

well...today's photo is not going to be up for the top 10 strong images of the year award...im really disappointed...but i was having a moment of "shyness" and didnt take the time to get the photo that i wanted... i definitely have a issue with self-consciousness - especially with my photography...and even doing this daily thing is causing me to stretch this year (i can't stand to not be a fabulous photographer since i went to school for it...its hard for me to admit how jealous i am when there are so many untrained people who take more fabulous photos than me)...but perhaps this will be a year of stretching...i have several areas that i hope to be able to say that i improved in before the end of the year...thank goodness i have lots of time to work on it...and matt, yes, i am going to try to write more about the photos to instead of just posting them (though that is what i would rather do)...so....

tonight i went to small group...i am very excited to get to know this group of people/friends better (yes even those i am related to)...and hopefully learn some important stuff too....anyhow, small group meets in the youth room and my guess is that the kids nailed things that they wanted to give to jesus to the cross...i thought it looked cool...apparently so did our group leader...he showed me that he took a photo of it too (i liked his better - *sigh*)

3... 3....3 for the price of one

(or "i am a horrible decision maker")

so....i couldn't decide which version to post...i think i like the last one best (used the auto-age button on my camera - much faster that doing it manually on photoshop -hmm...can it be considered manual when done with a computer?) what do you think?

why?

so a few months ago, i noticed this is our neighbors yard...curious.

so it goes

so, this isn't the photo i wanted to post today...the image i WANTED to post, i saw on the way to take jonas to school...little birdies in the snow...i take my camera with me virtually everywhere...but never on the way to school...so, i do not have that image...have this one instead :(

hello, 2010

so...after contemplating it for many years (though not every year) i am going to try to take a post a photo a day for this whole year...since i am already behind (though i just decided today)...there are a few bonus images in today's post (i am counting this as wednesday)...got a hungry monkey, gotta run.

i LOVE fireworks

i'm not sure who likes them more (but i think it might be me)...this is one of the first years that i actually attempted to photograph them...this is better than i could have hoped for...(see there was some point in going to school)

what a lovely day

when old and new collide

we made a contraption, it basically made an old brownie camera the lens for a digital camera...old+new=fun

EGGS

lukewarm and fading

today

ever feel irritated at everything? (and...blogger wouldnt even upload my image!) AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! (think charlie brown)

Tea for two

I really appreciate friends who are willing to visit "around" our kids...kids always make adult conversations interesting and it is always great having friends that roll with the punches and can follow conversations that go from christmas traditions to yes i would love to hold your baby doll and yes this plastic pizza tastes yummy.

Brrrrrrrrr!

i wish

i wish today felt like this (look close, can you see the steam?). it doesnt.

on the way to picture day

fun fun fun for everyone :)

a moment

streams

i wanted to find a photo that would be dreary...but i apparently dont often take that type and i have very little time for searching through files anyhow...i hate how tragedy can overshadow (rob you of) joyful moments...i hate being torn between need to wallow for a bit (while crying my eyes out) and wanting to move on like it never happened...the latter is better for everyone...im mostly tired of crying anyhow...

ever......?

ever have one of those days? today is just one of those days.

oldie, but i likey

these sunflowers are from a street market in manhattan...i would love to go back to NYC for a long weekend some day just to photograph stuff.

this is the way we roll

the kids were pretending to be puppies that were learning how to "roll over" it was adorable :)

PeOnYs

No vacancy

cleveland on the move

another night photo from our travels

sunday breakfast

little tikes

photos i took with my son's camera

i am going through about a year's worth of photos because im getting ready to put together an album for my baby girl. i saw this one and thought id post it...i think it was from a trip to grandma and papa's ...i forgot to look when i took it...but i liked it so i thought i would share it...i need to take some more photos...

Uptown

ok...what to write?...matt, you obviously know what this is....we drive past it everytime we visit my parents...it means we are almost there...and the trip is finally at an end :) and once i noticed that in the building adjacent, that a pigeon had flown into one of the windows smashing it and well, remained....and the next trip, i also noticed that a second pigeon had joined it...and on many subsequent trips i have notice how surprisingly well preserved they have remained (matt, you know you will have to look now...lag)....kelly i apologize....but i needed to share...blame my brother...

anyhow, this is a little theater in the uptown area and holds memories for me and my parents...ive always liked the building, sad that it no longer is anything...and...i eventually want to photograph lots of interesting letters and make a composite of their names for each of our childern (and cousins if they so desire - but how many versions of one's names would a person really want) to hang in their bedrooms.

out the window

the most wonderful time of the year