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February via Instagram
Day 32 – Feb. 1
We have 2 bird feeders and the birds are tearing up the food. Most ends up on the ground but they clean some of it up there. Bird watching has been a source of entertainment for us!
Day 33 – Feb. 2
Sunday lunch was omelette with bruschetta-type filling and fried grits patties.
Day 34 – Feb. 3
Beauty on our table. Kroger often has discounted tulips!
Day 35 – Feb. 4
Watching the Ham-Nye debate with my parents & sister
Day 36 – Feb. 5
One can of specialty paint cost more than 6 “vases”. It’s mirror paint and the process deserves a post of its own.
Day 37 – Feb. 6
After pictures of the vases. Working on decor items for upcoming Widows Banquet.
Day 39 – Feb. 8
View from my bedroom window. Weekend vacation on Hilton Head, thanks to a really good deal shared with us!!
Day 40 – Feb. 9
Our condo was 50 feet from the somethingth hole of a golf course. There was a bike path running past the course with a couple of little water holes.
Day 41 – Feb. 10
A beautiful old church in Beaufort SC. It sits on a bluff overlooking marsh and a river.
Day 42 – Feb. 11
The craft for the girls at Kids’ Club is themed on Valentine’s Day.
Day 43 – Feb. 12
I picked up the roses for the banquet and they were exactly what I wanted!
Day 44 – Feb. 13
A cold, dreary day calls for bright colors. (they look much brighter on my phone! Think fuschia instead of dull rose! 🙂
It also calls for fortitude (something about locking the keys in my car!)
Day 45 – Feb. 14
Turning the Ladies Restroom at church into a flower arrangement station
Day 47 – Feb. 16
Finally had the “redbird” land where I wanted him to. One of many bird pictures on my camera card. Sigh.
Day 53 – Feb. 22
The doors are open because it’s a beautiful day. Toys are out because we have guests with a cute little man.
The backdoor, not to be outdone by the front, wanted to be open too!
Day 55 – Feb. 24
Finally! A day pretty enough to spend on the beach. And with good friends from out-of-town too!!!
Day 57 – Feb. 26
More tulips!
Day 59 – Feb. 28
Tulip trees are usually some of the first to bloom in the south.
January via Instagram
This year I started a 365 project that’s really more of a 321 or 297 or something other than one-a-day. I make up for it by posting more than some on other days. Well, actually, there are some times that it’s just too hard to narrow it down to one. Like when I’m on vacation! It is a struggle to find a picture when a days is very run-of-the-mill work, eat, sleep. That’s partly why I’m doing this too, to find the unusual in a “normal” day.
I started out in true form by missing Jan. 1. Then again, it might be because I decided on to start this project on Day 2.
Day 2 – Jan. 2
Day 3 – Jan. 3
I found this title interesting. I thought the general idea was that women are good communicators. Not?
Day 4 – Jan. 4
Went shopping in Brunswick with a friend. She treated me to Bonefish Grill. I find it impossible to eat there without some Bang Bang Shrimp.
Day 5 – Jan. 5
A quiet Sunday evening … perfect for burning candles and enjoying hot chocolate.
Day 6 – Jan. 6
Just because it’s cold doesn’t mean you can’t have grilled hamburgers. Baby George Foreman grill to the rescue. Served on lettuce in lieu of a bun, with purple onion, tomato, cheese & chipotle sauce. With a side of potato wedges.
Day 7 – Jan. 7
Pretty winter sunset.
Day 8 – Jan. 8
One of the finer things in life. Anne’s Italian Cheese Bread toasted with butter. Ooh la la!
Day 9 – Jan. 9
Came across this in Job. I totally agree! (Job 6:6)
Day 10 – Jan. 10
Another Friday at work … getting bills paid and checks in the mail.
Day 11 – Jan. 11
We had taken all the pictures off the fridge before Christmas when we were doing heavy duty cleaning. We thought it might be a nice break to not have pictures up. Poor fridge looked forsaken. Today I put up the pictures from Christmas mail 2013.
Day 13 – Jan. 13
Even though our office is along a fairly busy 4-lane highway inside the city limits, the empty lot beside us is a place where wild turkeys come to feed occasionally.
Day 14 – Jan. 14
These Valentine gifts just crack me up. Why do people spend $ on something this big? I’ll be nice and not call them tacky. 🙂
Day 15 – Jan. 15
The sunset was beautiful but my phone camera can’t capture it. Bummer I didn’t have my real camera with me.
Day 16 – Jan. 16
Had the young married ladies over for the evening. My sister made some beautiful and delicious crepes! The rest of the menu was Brazilian Shrimp Stew, Tiropitas & a house salad.
Day 17 – Jan. 17
One of my S.S. students gave me a mug for Christmas. I’m enjoying it on these cold days! (I need to figure out how to keep it spot-free)
Day 18 – Jan. 18
College hockey tournament in Savannah. A favorite January event.
Day 21 – Jan. 21
Finally getting New Year’s Letters out!
Day 22 – Jan. 22
My sister-in-law, JoAnn had posted White Chocolate Snickerdoodle Cookies on FB so I had a craving for them. Made them at work and my co-workers could enjoy them as well.
Recipe is HERE.
Day 23 – Jan. 23
Instead of it being dark when I leave work, there’s still light in the sky. Yay for days getting longer!
Day 24 – Jan. 24
It may be sunny on St. Simons Island today but it’s windy & in the 30s. Not a good day for tourists. I was there to take pictures of several jobsites.
Day 26 – Jan. 26
Another Saturday in Savannah. This time to see the Les Miserables play that they brought back for 2 weeks.
And to eat at Lady & Sons
(goofy me!)
Day 27 – Jan. 27
Took my friend Carmel out for her birthday.
Day 29 – Jan. 29
The day that we held our breath and hoped and prayed it would snow here. Drinking a caramel machiatto in anticipation. (It didn’t snow. 🙁 )
Day 30 – Jan. 30
Sewing is therapeutic for me, assuming I’m not trying to do something on a hard deadline.
Day 31 – Jan 31
Annual Spelling Bee at church. The winners of the youngest category. They’re both in my SS class.
This one is for the Birds
So after many posts about travel, here is a post from my own backyard. 🙂
We have two bird feeders that have been getting a lot of attention, both from the birds and us. When we have some time to relax and the sun is shining nicely (it didn’t happen very often at the same time this winter), our backyard is a favorite place to do both. From the quantity of pictures, one might think I’m stalking the birds. From the evidence of extreme skittish-ness in the cardinals, I think they’d agree. However, the number of cardinals has risen in the last week or 2 and they’re much less frightened. Guess they’re fattening up before heading north.
[lighting: overcast]
Because I have pictures for so many different days, this could be a lesson in lighting and how it affects the warmth/coolness of the photo.
The finches are bossy little things and are often scolding at each other.
[lighting: late afternoon sun]
This is a bird flounce if ever I saw one!
In yo face!
They eat about 10% of the seed and the rest gets tossed to the ground.
[lighting: shade]
I had moved the feeders close to my bedroom window so I could shoot out of it without them seeing me. It worked sometimes.
I’m nowhere near a bird photography expert, but they love to have something to land on. In the next shot, I had raked together some pine needles, pine cones and branches to burn in the fire ring. It made a nice landing spot. Our grass is not very green yet but it’s greening up fast.
[lighting:overcast]
See the bird below with a little red color, Lois thinks it’s a finch. This was the only time I saw it. It looked funny, like there was something wrong with it.
[lighting: late afternoon sun]
We have this post that Lois put the decorative spool thingy on and planted a vine, the name escapes me at the moment, and the land there often. Makes a beautiful picture!
[lighting: female cardinal in shade, late afternoon sun in background]
[lighting: early afternoon sun]
[lighting: midday overcast – you can see filtered light hitting the leaves]
Wow! That’s quite a difference in those last 3 shots!
Same lighting as 2 shots ^^ but the finches barely stand out.
A birdbath is another place I can occasionally catch them. In this case, they’re here because my presence disturbed them from eating and they’re to wary to back to it.
[lighting: birds in shade, late afternoon sun on background]
The male looks rather upset. It’s the same male as the shot above this. His feathers fluffed up give him a different look.
Can you find all of the cardinals. I was this from some distance and only saw the males. Once I zoomed it in, I saw the females as well.
There are 6 birds in case you’re wondering.
There’s a little rain falling in the next one.
Tuesday night I was catching some late evening (overcast) light and noticed a different bird come flying in.
To the naked eye it looked like a robin but acted rather aggressive. A couple of seconds later, a second bird flew in and then I thought I knew what they were.
A pair of Baltimore Orioles migrating north. However, going by pictures here, I’d say they are Orchard Orioles. But, what I thought was the female doesn’t look anything like the female on that sight. It was getting close to dark so it was hard to get a good shot. Plus, they only stuck around a few minutes and we didn’t see them again.
So what are some hobbies/ways of relaxing you enjoy?
More Lake HDR
Another summer evening rain. As Murphy’s Law would have it, as soon as I arrived at the lake, it started sprinkling. If you see any spots on this photo, it’s the sun glinting off the raindrops.
I have many shots of these cypress trees. It is always hard to make them standout from the green background behind them. And now it appears that the county must have sprayed the weeds since they were dying along edge. I guess that just adds another color to the pic.
This next one is one of my favorite HDRs. I’m not often at the right place at the right time to get the sun coming out from the clouds quite like this. It was taken behind our church. I was able to get 5 shots to combine into one. The only thing I wish you could see more off is the pond beyond the gate.
If you’re tired of HDR, raise your hand! I see your hand in the back there. I will try to abstain from posting any for a while. 