Second Sprinkling

I was on my way home from work but decided I just couldn't pass up the photo opportunity. The sky was so cool looking and everything was covered in white.

I thought this drive way looked really cool. I had stopped here because there is a pond nearby and a good view of the surrounding hills.

I also found a gaggle of geese...which is amazingly actually called a gaggle...who knew. They were walking through the snow...probably wishing they could find some water that wasn't frozen over.

I told myself that next time it snows substantially, I am going to go downtown and see about getting some pics in the park as well.

The weather this year so far has been very normal winter which is nice because that means the ski mountain is open and our snow pack is at a level that might mean we don't have a horribly dry summer.
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Eight Years Ago on In My Words...Snow Updated

Pretty Sunsets

I do have to say one thing for the smoke in the air....it makes for some gorgeous sunsets. This first one was two nights ago with the air relatively clear (nice break from the last week). My cousin and I were out walking around our grandma's neighborhood trying to work off some of the huge dinner we had. I love how the rays are coming out of it.

This second one is from last night. I had visited my grandma's again and was driving home right at sunset. I could see the amazing sun in my mirrors as I tried to get home before it completely set. I had to drive up a different road from where we live to catch this one because our road is behind a hill and the sun was already gone there. I just didn't want to miss this beauty.

Last Year on In My Words....POTD Day 9 Natural

Work Tulips

The beds out front at work always have some cool plants in them...I am not sure if the tulips are left in year around, and some of the other seasonal stuff is just brought in and taken out when it dies, but the tulips are in full bloom now and I was determined to remember to get a shot of them before they disappeared.

I walk past them each day on my way for my break walk and of course, I am in a hurry then and rarely have my camera and then by the time I go back in, I have forgotten about them...but not today. I finished my walk a little early, went straight to my desk and grabbed my camera to get a shot in the morning sun.

Tulips are such a happy flower and always feel like a true sign that spring is on its way.
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Five Years Ago on In My Words...Ikebana Lesson #1

Loving Spring Flowers

This is evergreen clemantis and is one of my favorites because it stays green all winter and also because of the big fragrant blooms in the spring.

We have a bit of this in our back yard but there is a ton of it growing on the fence at work near our parking lot and it smells so good....wish it kept blooms longer than just spring though.

Spring has definitely sprung here, even if the temps can't make up their mind what they want to do for sure.

We still have a lot to do in the yard...never ends, but it is nice to see the life coming back with the new season.
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Last Year on In My Words...POTD Day 13 Fresh

Spring Has Sprung

This is the pretty Phlox in our front yard...it is super cute and fuzzy. The other big one we have isn't doing as well because it was entwined with some weeds during the winter and getting them out was kind of a pain in the ass. It has been done now though, so hopefully it will bounce back okay.

A lot of flowers are starting to make their appearance in the yard which just reminds me how much I need to get done before the good weather gets here...

It seems the tasks are never ending!!
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Two Years Ago on In My Words...Pop Spring Visit

Smile 100/100 Thunder And Lightening

This is my lucky shot from a storm we had. I was standing on our front balcony and the storm was so perfectly located that I could stand there forever just taking pictures hoping to get the lightening in one.

When I took this one, it looked like just a flash on the camera but then when I transferred it to the computer, that is when the details were shown.

I love that this is my last picture for this project too because I have always been a huge storm fan! In another life, I am sure I was a storm chaser...LOL

I took this picture with my Fuji Finepix f50 with no flash. I edited in GIMP 2.6 for color and light and then added the fuzzy border.
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Eight Years on In My Words...Technical Difficulties

Smile 81/100 Sunflower

I really love this shot...might have to make a card from this one, if I haven't already....LOL. Sunflowers are just so cheerful and the variations make them so much fun to photograph.

This one was in the garden near the fundraiser we were attending and it was calling to me to take its picture the entire time I was there.

The sun was low in the sky and added cool shadows and color to the whole scene. I took this picture with my Fuji Finepix f50 with no flash but with macro enabled. I edited it in GIMP 2.6 for color and light and then added the fuzzy border.
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Six Years Ago on In My Words...Eclipse

Smile 68/100 PhotoCards

I have been limited in my card creating since all of my supplies are not here. I have made up for this by creating cards on York from pictures I have taken.

The time has come again to order a new batch of cards from new pictures. I edited 6 images that I really liked and placed an order for them today. I usually get 12 of each so I have a nice variety of cards to send to friends and family. I try to make them so that I can send them for different occasions rather than being locked into only thank yous or birthdays.

I hope this new batch comes out as well as all the others have. I took this picture with the Snipping Tool on my laptop. I edited it in GIMP 2.6 for color, light and to add the fuzzy border.
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Seven Years Ago on In My Words...Randomness

Smile 60/100 HotRod

This is my uncle's hot rod. The body (and frame, I am assuming) was found about 8 years ago in a huge blackberry bush, and it was just a huge chunk of metal with surface rust all over it.

He has been working on it ever since. First time I saw it on the road was for a bbq we had at a state park for one of my "aunts" which was probably a couple of years ago.

It is a 1932 Chrysler 3 window coupe and he has it "hotrodded" out. He says that he still needs to work on the interior some but it is a beauty to see parked in the driveway. On this occasion, it was sitting in the driveway of my other uncle's house while we were having a little family get together and the sunlight on the beautiful paint job was just too much for me to pass up.

I took this picture with my Fuji Finepix f50 in the afternoon sun. I edited it in GIMP 2.6 for color, light and then to add the fuzzy border.
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Nine Years Ago on In My Words...Nascar Education

Smile 53/100 Bald Eagle

I am pretty sure these are the first bald eagles I have seen that weren't in captivity or in Alaska.

These guys were hanging out  along some fields that were getting watered at the top of the hill going up to my FIL's house.

We looked for them on our way out but ended up only seeing them on our way back. Must have been the time of day that did it.

I took this picture with my Fuji Finepix f50 with no flash. I edited it in GIMP 2.6 for color, light, and then added the fuzzy border.
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Three Years Ago on In My Words...WC Rufus

Smile 52/100 Bumble

This happy little bumblebee was in my FIL's greenhouse when we were visiting. You can't really see it in the image but his legs are covered in pollen he had picked up on his busy day of visiting flowers.

His location, even though at a high elevation, seems to do well for all the plant life he is able to get going and keep going throughout the season.

I took this picture with my Fuji Finepix f50 with no flash but with the macro enabled. I edited it in GIMP 2.6 for color, light and then added the fuzzy border.
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Four Years Ago on In My Words...PC Rebuild Part One

Smile 50/100 View

Bailey loves this window...there is a dent in the cushion from her enthusiastic window watching. She has access to outside, but seems to prefer to check things out from behind the glass.

This is my aunt and uncle's cat that I house sit for when they are out of town. She is super sweet, and has them fully trained as all cats do to their owners...LOL.

I was over the other day, helping my aunt organize some stuff and I just couldn't pass up this nicely framed shot. I took a closer one of her that really accentuated the hefty rear end she totes around but thought I would spare her the grief of having that one posted on the Internet.

I took this picture in the afternoon light, with no flash on my Fuji Finepix f50. I then edited in GIMP 2.6 for color and light balance and then added a fuzzy border.
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Seven Years Ago on In My Words...Packing Tape Monster

Smile 48/100 Dianthus

These guys are on an amazing plant that I transplanted from my SIL's garden before they moved.

This is a huge plant, and it is really happy in the spot I put it. It is currently about 2 feet tall which is bigger than any other dianthus I have seen.

Obviously it is a different version, and that is cool. We have a small version of another type in the bed near the house but I think it doesn't get enough sun to really do its full thing.

I took this picture with my Fuji Finepix f50 with no flash but with the macro enabled. I edited it in GIMP 2.6 for color, light and then added the fuzzy border.
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Six Years Ago on In My Words...Ouch

Smile 44/100 New Lenses

My cousin found these glasses and gave them to me 14 years ago. I have replaced the lenses twice now.

I have a case for them and I try to be careful that I don't put them in the same pocket as anything sharp like keys, but somehow I got a huge gouge in the right lens a few weeks ago and it ran right down my center of my vision and was driving me nuts. So I looked online and Oakley doesn't provide the replacement lenses anymore but I found some from a third party on Amazon.

I ordered polarized lenses (my first) and it is a completely different experience to look through them, but in a good way. Everything looks really crisp and some things almost look extra vivid. I guess I am the last person on the planet to try polarized, haha.

I took this picture in the afternoon in our diningroom with my Fuji Finepix f50 with no flash. I edited it in GIMP 2.6 for color, light and added the fuzzy border.
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Nine Years Ago on In My Words...

Smile 42/100 Sister Moutain

We live very close to a chain of mountains here and this is one in that chain that is not too far from where we live.

My SIL and I were on our way to visit my FIL for the day, and we had her daughter and two grand daughters in tow. We had a winding road up to the top of the smalller pass and then we had this beautiful view as we started to head east.

It was a beautiful sight to see. I took this picture with my Fuji Finepix f50 with no flash. I edited it in GIMP 2.6 for color, light and then added the fuzzy border.
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Five Years Ago on In My Words...Bucket List 2

Smile 41/100 Lizard

We saw this beauty at a local festival. He and some of his animal friends were in a learning display for kids.

My understanding is that he is a bearded dragon. I thought his coloring was just awesome and he just sat there and let me zoom in on him. So photogenic!

They had several iquanas, a large tortise, a huge toad, a few snakes, to include a large boa. They had two parrots and a bunch of chicks and ducklings that were probably totally tramautized by all the handling.

I took this picture with my Fuji Finepix f50 with no flash but the macro turned on. I edited it in GIMP 2.6 for color, light, and added the fuzzy border.
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Seven Years Ago on In My Words...Dead Gecko Movement

Smile 39/100 Chicks

Another dose of chicks at the Grange today. These ones were all under red heat lamps to keep them warm but it did a number of my photos so I decided to go black and white instead.

They were super cute, of course, and noisy as heck. I guess lots of chirping is probably a good thing though.

My FIL has chicks at his house too but they are a bit older than these ones. They are already starting to look like chickens.

So I took this image with my Fuji Finepix f50 with no flash. I edited in GIMP to change it to black and white and then added the fuzzy border.
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Two Years Ago on In My Words...Observations

Smile 38/100 Other End

This is the other end of the brightest of the rainbows in the last post. It went from one end to the other and I am sure there was a pot of gold somewhere in there.

The sun was out but the rain was on its way again, and then the rainbows would be gone so I stopped what I was doing to capture this image before it would disappear.

Sometimes taking time to enjoy a small beauty is what it is all about.

I took this picture with my Fuji Finepix f50 with no flash. I edited it in GIMP 2.6 for color, light and added the fuzzy border.
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Nine Years Ago on In My Words...Enough Already

Smile 37/100 Double Rainbow

When I stopped by a local brewery today to get some beer for a get together I was going to, these beautiful guys were in the sky.

The darker of the two was actually a full rainbow that I couldn't capture all in one shot. I love how dark the sky is, how vibrant the colors are and how the sun is shining in the foreground.

I took this picture with my Fuji Finepix f50 with no flash. I edited it in GIMP 2.6 for color, light and then to add the fuzzy border to it.
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Nine Years Ago on In My Words...Two Suns

Smile 35/100 Wisteria

This wisteria was on a plant that had been trained into the shape of a tree along my walk this morning.

We had a lot of wisteria in the past in our yard, but it was always in a vine so when I see this little wisteria trees, it always throws me off a bit at first.

These were so pretty in the morning light, I couldn't pass up the photo opportunity.

I took this picture with my Fuji Finepix f50 with no flash, but macro enabled. I edited it in GIMP 2.6 for color, light and then added the fuzzy border.
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Seven Years Ago on In My Words...Thanks To Everyone