A Week In Review

My Favorite Photo Of The Week

I looked out my kitchen window and spotted this lovely yellow flower in my succulent garden.

The Simple Things

banana shaped stamens brought a smile

but, be aware, they are poisonous!

Picture Inspiration Week 29 - Where I Stand

 There's no place I'd rather be than home!

Picture Inspiration Week 30 -  Hands On

A handful of hors d'oeuvres served at an art walk.

Mosaic Muse - Faces

Our Oldest Grandson

52 Photos Project - Words And Pictures

A Week In Review

My Favorite Photo Of The Week

purple wildflower

The Simple Things

first signs of fall

Picture Inspiration - She's got legs

tersa sphinx hummingbird moth

Mosaic Muse - negative spaces

a light in the night

52 Photos Project - In The Garden

butterfly and it's shadow

 

A Week In Review

My Favorite Photo Of The Week

My Favorite Photo Of The week will not always be the best I took that week. Sometimes, like this one, it will be a photo of a moment that I enjoyed. This picture was taken at the Historic Arkansas Museum, which features five pre-Civil War houses that are restored to their antebellum appearances.  Dressed in period clothing she sat in 100+ degree weather gently playing her lap harp.  I stood for a good while (in the shade) listening to her beautiful melodies.

The Simple Things

peeking through the garden

 Prompt Addicts - Creating Art

 Salt and Pepper

Added Ripple Blocks in Picnik

Sweet Pencils

Boosted color a bit and added Smudge with Picnik

 

Picture Inspiration - In The Bag 

 My favorite bag to take on road trips in our 1940 Ford Pickup.

52 Photos Project - Silhouette

 

Photos Of The Week

My Favorite Photo Of The Week

He waits patiently. What's he waiting for? Me!! I'm taking pictures of a covered bridge in one of the nearby parks. The picture is not even focused well, but it's special to me!

The Simple Things

Just an ordinary weed spotted near a lake.

Simple beauty!

Prompt Addicts - Minimalistic Yet Meaningful

I spotted this door knob on an old church. I wonder how many hands have turn this knob and entered this church to worship.

Picture Inspiration  - Back To Basics

Serenity through simplicity

Simple ~ Serene ~ Calm

52 Photos Project - Black and white

Sundial taken at a Layman Library in North Little Rock, Arkansas

It's been an amazing week!!

A Good Photo Week

My Favorite Photo Of The Week

Nature always amazes me!!  I wonder how does this curlicue of an ordinary sticker bush grow in a coil even though it's not growing around anything. Fascinating!  Only two curlicues on this bush were this unusual color. You can a see if you look closely the water drops inside the curl. We've been blessed this week with rain!! I like that it's not a perfect coil and that's it's a different color than the others! Reminds me of myself. I'm not perfect but I just keep on growing, reaching out to embrace life the best I can. I also like that it's different in color. Going with the crowd is just not me. In fact, I usually balk at being like others.  I'm chuckling here!  I can still remember my Mother saying "You don't have to be like everyone else!"  I think that lesson must have suck!!  I just like being me!

Prompt Addicts - dream a little dream

We purposely took a photo out of focus to make it dreamy.  Honestly, this was hard.  Since I'm just learning manual mode on my camera, I take a lot of pictures out of focus, but I wanted a beautiful out of focus shot!!! I took a bunch before I got one that I really liked.  It's a picture of my Mother's crepe myrtle bush. I'm seeing a little theme here...look how the berry I unfocused on is a different color than the others. Hmmm!!

The Simple Things

A wild flower growing on the edge of our property. Simple in beauty and simple in color. I'm just learning to use my macro lens and so far I'm not getting the sharpness I want.  But, I'll keep on trying!!

 Picture Inspiration #1  -  well balanced

symmetry in nature

 Hen and chicks
This one is sharper.  I set the timer so the action of my pressing the button didn' move the camera. Maybe this will work for me.

Picture Inspiration #2 - well balanced
symmetry in nature

The pine cone is balanced (or really stuck) on barb wire. The shape of it is very symmetric. I received a comment on this image that I want to pass along. Angie said "I like it, even if you think it's just stuck. Maybe that's a commentary for our lives, too? Even if we think we might be stuck, we might just be hanging on the balance waiting for the right thing to tip us one way or another?" I love this!! After I read her comment it made me do some thinking. I love taking photos, I love sharing them, but there is more than just the photo. There's something deeper! The reason that shot appeals to me...the reason I keep returning to me favorites. Those are photos that are taken from the heart. Not, just snapped and forgotten. Angie sees things in her photos and ours. When she posts them she includes such wonderful thoughts or quotes. I can tell she spends time with her photos studying them. She has inspired me to look, really look at the shots I take. To think about why that photo appeals to me so much. I had already written this post when I read her comment. I came back here, looked at the photos I'd posted and added a little of my feelings. I'm not good at this, but I'll be doing it more often. Thank you, Angie!!

Do your remember this photo from a few weeks ago. I finally found out what they are, Seedbox (Ludwigia alternifolia). Seedbox fruits are small capsules. They usually have a box-shaped top, thus the name "Seedbox". The seeds fall out of the little hole in the top when the wind blows or when the plant is shaken by an animal. They are a wildflower from the "family" evening primrose and are also known as rattlebox. That's just the coolest thing!! God gave us creation for our enjoyment. He could have just created a simple seed that just fell to the ground. But he didn't, he gave us this gorgeous little box to enjoy. One thing I'm learning though, to enjoy you have to spend some time searching nature!!

It's been a good photo week!!
So thankful I have discovered photography and through the lens of my camera discovered the beauties of nature.

The Simple Things and Photo Of The Week

I decided use the same photo for The Simple Things and for my favorite photo of the week!

My neighbor brought me some okra fresh from his garden.

Let me tell you it doesn't get much better than fried okra and homegrown tomatoes!!

Yep, I know fried foods are not good for you, but it is my favorite food and I only get fresh okra once a year!

Southern Comfort Food ~ fried okra

Photo Of The Week

I'd like to start posting on Sunday a photo that I've taken the previous week. 

I take so many and don't seem to get to share them with you!! 

This will be a short post with

a photo

and

maybe a small explanation.

Blue Dragonfly

This is my first dragonfly picture.

They usually don't stay still long enough for me to capture.

I took this with my Finepix point and shoot camera. 

Aren't his colors and his transparent wings beautiful!!