Another Fleeting Snow Photo

So funny, started snowing really hard about 8:00, I went out to take photos around 9:30 or so, then by morning it was mostly gone. Kids totally missed out this time. It was rather photogenic tho.

Btw - don't forget to check out my 365 Photo Project.

Last Night's Fleeting Snow Storm

BTW - I'd love it if you stopped by HERE and checked out my new photo project.

Tomato Harvest

Grew tomatoes for the first time this year, it was pretty fun. And tasty. Can't wait to do it again next year. And yes, they are as small as they look but so flavorful. "Matts Wild Cherry" is the variety.

This morning on my front porch

I've been working on capturing the eyes of the people I photograph. Paying extra close attention to the lighting and focus.

This is one I took this morning, and I'm pretty happy with it. I also took pictures of my tomatoes, and a willing Orb Weaver. But I'm only sharing this one of my girl.

A Morning of Mist and Spiders

And this is what you get.

So funny, how scared I am of spiders. Yet I love to photograph them. Maybe someday it'll help me overcome my fear.

May Greeblepix Contest

So I'm a bit disenchanted with flickr right now, I like it for some stuff but I also realize it stops me from posting as often because instead of uploading a photo straight to my blog, I have to upload it to flickr, then edit it, resize it, then post it. Anyway, its not that much work but it slows me down. I think I'll go back to the other way for a while.

However, since this is greeblepix time, I am going for a large photo today.

Anyway, go HERE and check out the rest of the entries, you'll be glad you did.

Happy Mothers Day

Not Sure If This Qualifies Or Not...

But I think this is called Hoar Frost. Its when fog freezes as frost, its very 3-D. I really didn't get many good pics of it tho.

My Favorite Fruit - Raspberries

I picked these in my side yard about 2 weeks ago. In 2002 when we moved in I tried to kill those bushes. Haven't noticed them since - then suddenly this year they are bountiful! This day I picked at least half a pound. And ate them all. Big selfish girl I am, didn't share.

Dead Things

And this has nothing to do with Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Billy Mays or Michael Jackson.

Rhododendron in my Front Yard

I love the bright orange highlights inside the buds. Much more interesting to look at close up.

Outstanding in the Field of Yellow

Tomorrow is my first Blogiversary. I think I'll post a retrospective of my favorite previously published photos. I'd love it if you stopped by to say Hi.

End of Green Branch

Can't remember where this came from. I think it was the Rose of Sharon in my front yard.

Coming up on my first "Blogiversary" on June 7, pretty poor showing for the month of May tho.

Ewww its a Slug

In my front yard.

Herself in the Pool

I tried to warm up the colors a bit in this photo but then they got all wonky so I went with what I had. This is from this past weekend. I love those $14.99 pools - but not as much as the kids.

Girl in the front Yard in the Sun

With a striped shirt. One of the first nice days of this spring. Love the way the sunlight is highlighting her hair.

White Blooms on Front Yard Bush

These are blooms of this bush posted here.

Still have no clue what kind of plant it actually is, but I do like it. And these flowers have the fainest most gentle almost rose-like scent - really wonderful.

Azalea Bud

Another macro shot. Hope you like it.

April Greeblepix Entry

This is my entry for Awesome Aimee (greeblemonkey) and her monthly greeblepix contest.

I really struggled with an entry this month, for two reasons:

One I'm not that inspired by alot of my photos taken in the last few months. So much so that I went over previously published photos to see if there were any I wanted to share again. But I remembered I had quite a few shots in my camera that had yet to be downloaded - and Viola! This jumped out at me! I played with the color a little bit because it was in shadow, but this really is not an exaggeration of how red this bush is. And I used my new macro which I LOVE.

Second, I have a photo shoot coming up on the 1st and 2nd of May and I need to rent a flash - so I REALLY want to win - LOL!!

Click on the link to see the rest of the amazing entries.

Thank you Aimee - for hosting this photo contest. I so look forward to it every month.

I've Memed Myself Because I Didn't Know Where To Turn....

But I played with it a little. Didn't like the original color photo, didn't care for the black and white conversion, so I dropped the Hue and Saturation a bit to this slightly colored version.
And I quite like it. (btw - I've seen this photo meme wandering about the blogs and this is the 6th photo in my 6th photo folder)