Lego and Poe

Today's photo brought to you by little energy, little creativity, and little light. (The prompt is spooky background.)

Simple Things

Ideas flying

Crazy thoughts, faraway dreams.

What will become real?

KEB 10/14/15

99/365-3 Layers

"Twirly Skirt"

I grabbed my daughter this afternoon hoping to get a few practice shots for the portraits class. She said, "Don't you want to take pictures of me in my twirly skirt?" For a brief moment I was transported back to when she was three rather than twenty five. It was a fun few minutes that we shared. The photos aren't technically very good, because neither one of us was being too serious about the whole thing, but we had fun. When we looked at the pictures I decided they worked as well as anything for layers. Now I have been shocked back into reality as my girls are leaving tomorrow for a trip to Las Vegas together. No more feeling like they are three!!!

45-53/365-3 Another Round of Catching Up

February seems to have whizzed by and I have no idea where it has gone!  All month I have been making lists of things that I need to do and I have actually crossed a goodly number of them off, but it seems that I am adding new things faster than I am removing accomplished tasks and the lists continues to grow.  The good news in all of this is that I have gotten a lot done, both things that I need to do and a few that I want to do.  I'll continue to work to whittle down at the rest trying to be gentle with myself about the places where I have fallen short.

As I write this tonight, I have a wicked cold that is not doing anything to help my productivity.  The good news is that due to an impending ice storm, school has been cancelled for tomorrow.  That gives me some to get some extra rest in the hope of defeating the cold and some time to catch up on other things.  I consider the ice and cold to be a gracious gift from Mother Nature, just what I need right now.

And now to catch up on the daily photos so that I can scratch that off of my list.

45/365 Valentine

"Edible Valentine"

We celebrated a simple Valentine's Day sharing bagels and coffee.  That evening, We went to see Book of Mormon with some friends.  That show is so wrong but so hilarious!

46/365 Depth of Field

"Bones"

The dogs supervised this shot in case any props happen to be dropped along the way.

47/365 Flowing

"Goofy Grapes"

This was a last ditch effort taken and edited very late at night with my phone.

48/365 Wide

"Rainy Afternoon"

Standing out in the rain taking this shot reminded me how much I love rain.

49/365 XOXO

"XO"

A late night photo of a late night snack.

50/365 Isolate It

"Quiet Life"

51/365 Colored Bokeh

"Signs of Spring"

On the way out to the mailbox on Friday afternoon we noticed the first dandelion of the year, the first sign of spring.  I felt like I needed to document that, but I also felt a bit guilty about our dandelions and seventy degree weather while so much of the country was immobilized by snow and bitter cold temperatures.  And now it is 28 degrees here and we will wake up tomorrow morning to a blanket of ice.

52/365 Indistinct

"Wishes"

This was not the photo that I intended to take for the prompt, but it was my favorite photo of the day so it became my daily photo.

53/365 Looking Forward

"Frankie"

Nothing was happening for me creatively today.  Though I am usually a positive person, always preferring to look forward rather than backward, I just couldn't muster any enthusiasm for the day's shot.  Perhaps this is because of the cold that has taken up residence in my head.  Now that I think about it, I really don't feel well.  On the up side, I did get a picture of Frankie for this month.

For what it's worth, I am now caught up here...one less thing on my list!

And, there is a new Pixels, Plates, and LOLs! post.

22/365-3 Color Blocking

"My New Jacket"

For Christmas I asked for a North Face Denali jacket.  I didn't specify a color, but anyone willing to spend the money to buy me this jacket knows me well enough to know that I would definitely want blue.  In doing his Christmas shopping, Weber discover that North Face has an option where you can design your own jacket - choose the polar fleece color, the nylon, the zippers, the stitching, and they include an embroidered personal tag.  That is what I got for Christmas.  It was really two gifts in one.  Playing with all of the color combinations on the website was a blast.  The hard part was having to make a decision...well, not really.  Blue and orange were the only contenders;  the only hard part was deciding in what combination.  Obviously I settled on one and my jacket came today!  It may not be the most exciting picture of color blocking, but I am pretty excited about the jacket!

Here is the link if anyone is interested.

12/365-3 Frost

"Fire and Ice"

Though it was chilly today, it was not chilly enough for frost so I had to go a different route with today's prompt.

With sincere apologies to Robert Frost, here is my silly illustration of his poem Fire and Ice.

Some say the world will end in fire; 
Some say in ice. 
From what I've tasted of desire 
I hold with those who favor fire. 
But if it had to perish twice, 
I think I know enough of hate 
To say that for destruction ice 
Is also great 
And would suffice.

6/365-3 Where I Stand - January

"Where I Stand Sit - January 2015"

I'm still trying to heal from my pre-Christmas "photography" injury so I am supposed to be taking it easy on my leg.  Yesterday I took down the Christmas decorations and this there was not much resting  so today was a day off of me feet...except for a little vacuuming.

5/365-2 Ensemble

"A Duo of Duos"

It's bad enough when people start looking like their dogs, or couples start looking like each other...but when a couple starts looking like Lego mini figures????  Scary stuff.

363/365-2 Orange

"Surprise!"

361/365-2 Ethereal

"The Dreamer"

357/365-2 Sad Santa

"Guard Dog"

He wouldn't wear a Santa hat, but Adidas has his serious "sad lab face" on.  He feels it necessary to guard the gifts that are under the tree.  It is a tough job, but someone has to do it.

355/365-2 In the Kitchen

'Santa????"

I forgot to post this here yesterday because I posted it on Facebook early in the day thinking I would take a more appropriate photo for my official photo of the day.  That didn't happen so this is it.  What does it have to do with "in the kitchen?" About the only thing is that this silly idea was hatched and planned while standing in the kitchen.  And no, we had not been sipping on the eggnog.

353/365-2 You Better Watch Out

"Christmas Break"

Six days before Christmas and on the last day of school before the holiday break, teachers and Santa feel each other's pain!  There are few people still on the "nice" list!

352/365-2 Shimmering

"Believe!"

350/365-2 Lights

"Same Lights, Different Year"

This is the third year that I have photographed this display of lights that is just around the corner from our house.  They are quite beautiful and each year I enjoy seeing them.  They have not changed in three years so I decided that I needed to do something different with this year's photos.  

Generally speaking, I like abstract looking photos.  I do like the bokeh in the foreground trees, but I'm not so sure about the trees in the background.  I have until January 1 to take more photos here and see if I can do something else that I like a little better.  For today, this will do.

345/365-2 The Grinch

"The Grinch"

325/365-2 Give Thanks for the Unpredictable

"Disco Leaf"

Nothing says unpredictable like the combination of me and a Lensbaby.

And, thank you Jim for sending the photo of the Virgin America plane that reminded us all of those disco days.  Just the mention of "You Should Be Dancing"  sent me right back to the seventies:-)  I'm not sure that's a good thing:-)

282/365-2 Distorted

"Hello Dali!

Um...Can you tell it is midterm?  Yup, I need a break.

275/365-2 Lines

"Great Grate"

My brain was quite tired tonight.  I had no idea what to shoot today and not much energy with which to think about it.  As Weber and I were driving through town on our way to dinner, I was looking for anything that had even the least bit of interest in its lines.  We passed the library and I decided that would do.  Since this is where Brooke works, it also has a bit of personal significance.

The library's entrance has lots of interesting lines assuming that you can get at the proper angle, which I could not.  There were cars in the way and I wanted to make sure that I avoided photographing any people because I was not in the mood to engage any strangers for permission to take their pictures.  When I finally found a position that would give me a reasonable shot at the lines, I realized that the trash can was smack in the middle.  Oh well...a few shots and I'm out of here.  I am too tired to try to solve this problem.

"Library Lines"

As I turned to head back to the car, the grate around one of the trees caught my eye.  It was during the golden hour and all of the fallen leaves and dropped flower petals that had made their way beneath the grate seemed to have taken on magical colors and the geometry of the grate itself was quite beautiful.  I'm sure all of the library patrons who passed by me were wondering what the heck I was photographing.  When all was said and done, the photo of the grate was my favorite.

This is a just for fun shot using some of yesterday's pumpkins.

274/365-2 PWA's

"PWA's"

In the albinism community there are those who find it offensive to be called an albino, preferring the more politically correct term "person with albinism" or PWA.  So here I bring you politically correct PWA's - Pumpkins With Albinism.