111/365 Blooming

"First Fruits"

Erin brought us a strawberry plant.  It is full of berries already!  Though this shot is kind of busy, I like it because it shows the berries at several different stages of development.

I also like these two very different perspectives on strawberries.

"Ripening"

"From the Berry Back"

110/365 White

"Wishes in White"

109/365 At The Edge

"Edge Of The Water"

We went to the park this evening just to get some fresh air and wind down at the end of another school week.  I love to watch the ducks and the birds and the children playing.  I love the sounds of the park.  Even though there is usually a lot of activity, the park always seems peaceful to me.

On our way, we stopped along the road so that I could take some pictures of a tiny patch of bluebonnets on the edge between someone's yard and the street.  Having fulfilled the day's prompt, I figured I'd just shoot whatever at the park.  No pressure.

I took a few pictures of roses, birds and some basic duck pictures.  It wasn't until we were about to leave that the little guy above made his way out of the water right up beside me.  I love his colors, particularly his bright orange feet.  They look exactly like stereotypical duck feet.  I also like the water droplets on his belly and tail feathers.  He replaced the bluebonnets as today's depiction of "on the edge."

One of these birds sat in this spot for the entire hour or so that we were at the park.  The other would come and go.  I'm not sure what they are, but they have an impressive call and an equally impressive wing span.  With those wings, this one looks like it is trying to impersonate Batman.

"Batman"

108/365 Passed Down

"A Love of Reading"

Pictured here is a first edition of Robin Hood given to Weber's father in 1924.  Weber remembers his dad reading it to him when he was a little boy.  The oil lamp has also been in Weber's family for a long, long time.  He thinks that it once belonged to his great-great, or maybe great-great-great aunt.  Either way, it has been around a good long while.  I love having all these pieces of family history as part of our home.

107/365 A Sign

"In Big Trouble With the Big Cheese"

Rick Maxwell, aka the "the big cheese," is our division dean and this is a photo of our shared refrigerator in the faculty workroom.  I think someone had the wrong idea about what shared really means!  How could they take the boss's cheese sticks?

106/365 Pie or Pile

Pie of Berries and Pile of Berries"

At the beginning of each month Katrina Kennedy of Capture Your 365 publishes the list of prompts for each day of the month.  Then, each day she sends an inspirational email with photo tips of tidbits of inspiration.  I had been looking forward to the "pie" prompt all month since we have our family baker at home with us.  When Katrina's email came this morning, she said that she had actually intended for the day's prompt to be pile, not pie.  Pie was actually a typo.  

I had pie on the brain so I decided to go ahead a photograph a pie.  I was afraid that if I told Brooke that the prompt wasn't really "pie" that she would then decide not to make me a pie.  That would be very sad!  When it came time to actually take the photo, I decided to add a pile of blackberries next to the berry pie.  Thus, I ended up with both a pie of berries and a pile of berries.

Later in the day, I decided to attempt the "pile" prompt.  I had fun with these colored hair bands.

"A Pile of Ponytail Bands"

105/365 Sprouts

"Dinner Sprouts"

I wish the sprouts that I had photographed today were sprouting plants in my garden.  Sadly, I have planted nothing.  I was feeling OK about that last week when we had temperatures in the upper 30's.  Today the high temperature was 90.  This is good garden weather.  I guess I will break down and buy some plants rather than starting from seeds.  I'm not sure when that is going to happen.

Since I had no sprouting plants, I had to take a different approach and cheat a little with Brussels sprouts.  Oh well . . .

I also took this photo of my blooming spathiphyllum.  This isn't a sprout but I think it's pretty.