Christmas Ornaments

I am a little behind on this post, but here it is nonetheless. Here are some of our Holiday Decor photos for the You Capture weekly photo challenge. Next week's challenge is Your Holiday.

The following hand-painted ornaments are painted by my mother-in-law each Christmas for each of the grandkids. Isn't that amazing talent?

You Capture Lines

I took my You Capture pictures early, but forgot to post them until later. Oh, well! Anyhow, last week I had fun looking for different kinds of lines on my nature walk.


If you want to participate in this week's You Capture photo challenge, it's not too late, you can add your link at any time.

Next week's theme is Holiday Decor. That should be a tricky one for me as I'm notoriously bad about getting up my Christmas things (sometimes a few days before Christmas).

Here are my line pictures.

Line In Leaves

 

Frost Line, Sun Line

 

Long Shadow Lines

 

Frost Line

 

Pond Wall Line

 

Lines On Frozen Blackberries

Autumn

I am participating in I Should Be Folding Laundry's weekly photo challenge. This weeks theme is Autumn.

Still Life

I'm participating in this week's "You Capture" photo challenge at I Should Be Folding Laundry. This weeks challenge was Still Life. Here are a couple of still life shots.

My Red Photos

I'm participating in the You Capture weekly photo theme here:

Here are my red photos. I sure had fun taking these last week when I was out and about with my oldest daughter. These were actually all taken within a few hours of each other.

Feels like fall.

I am participating in I Should Be Folding Laundry's weekly photo challenge. This week's challenge was things that feel like fall.

 

Next week's theme: The Color Red

Here are my photos.

Doesn't this cat look happy?

Ok. So maybe this is stretching the "Happiness" theme at I Should Be Folding Laundry's weekly photo challenge. But as I was looking at these photos I took today, I could help but think, doesn't that cat look happy? You see my cat doesn't just catch mice, but she catches birds, bugs, rabbits, and snakes. Yes, snakes. This wasn't the first time either. She loves to catch snakes, torment them a while, then let them go. It's a good thing for her that we don't live in poisonous snake territory.

So here are my photos.

Some New Things

I'm participating in:

This week's theme is new. Checkout You Capture for a lot more great photos.

Here are some new things for me:

These are new eggs. Still in the nest box.

No, this isn't grass. This is newly seperated and replanted Irish Moss. This is the first low lying ground cover I've been happy with how quickly in fills in (at least in my soil). I'm seperating it and growing more.

Here is some new Banana Bread I've just made. It really is new because I'm playing around making my own recipe for Whole Wheat Sourdough Banana Bread. It was alright, but I still have to tweak it.

Me

We were invited by "I Should Be Folding Laundry" to capture pictures of ourselves this week. Here is my collage of me. A few of these were taken by my children actually, but most by me of me. I love the opportunity to add a little creativity to my picture taking, and the inspiration that others give is always helpful. Checkout this photography blog for more inspiration.

You Capture Challenge - Letters

I am participating in this weeks You Capture's Challenge - Letters.

Here is a favorite picture of mine with some wonderful letters in it.