237/365 The Extraordinary in the Ordinary

"A Tisket, A Tasket …

…  a shadow and a basket"

I wish that I had had more time to look for things for this prompt.  It is a great mental challenge to try and find interesting perspectives and parts of seemingly uninteresting things to photograph.  This is a laundry basket casting its shadow in the afternoon sun.

236/365 Steps

"Saturday Sunset"

What does this have to do with steps? Umm … they both start with "S"? 

Finding an opportunity of a photo that included steps wasn't happening today.  This is what was happening and thus is the picture of the day.

I learned that sunsets are hard, at least for me, to photograph such that they are as beautiful in the photo as they are firsthand.

235/365 Landscape

'Summer Parked"

There are lots of great things about Dallas, but its beautiful landscape is not one of them.  Cityscape?  Maybe, but definitely not landscape.  With today's prompt being a local landscape, I was at a loss.  I finally decided, almost too late in the day,  that we do have lots of parks that provide a nice respite from the concrete and glass that covers most of the city.

I took several photos of this expansive park.  In the end, I was drawn to this image with the "beyond their prime" flowers in the foreground.  As I was looking at it on the computer, I realized that this is because, right now, I feel kind of like those flowers.  We have been easing into the school year.  Weber has been back at school this entire week for in-service and I had meetings today.  Students arrive for both of us on Monday.  That will be the true mark that summer is over for us - just like summer is over for those flowers

234/365 Abundant

"Lots of Loaves"

The girls are trying to test their recipes in preparation for starting their own baking business.  For now they are taking orders from their friends.  Today Brooke made several kinds of mini loaves to offer as samples.  They look good and they smell really good but they don't see the need to add a taste tester to their staff so I have not had any of today's product.  Today's breads are oatmeal and cinnamon raisin.  The truth is that I can vouch for the awesomeness without tasting this batch because these are two of our family favorites and they are made around here quite regularly. 

233/365 Spin

"A Swiftly Spinning Skein"

232/365 The Other Side

"The Ears Have It"

Today's prompt was to look at something from "the other side."  You know, the grass is always greener on the other side…Harley has the sweetest little face, but it definitely her ears that give her "her look" no matter the side from which you view them.  I like how the light shines through her ears.

Below is a picture I took while photographing on the square in Carrollton.  It is not technically great, but it was fun.  I like practicing nighttime shots.  One of these days I may even figure it out.

231/365 Urban/Hidden/Neglected

"Black and White Movies"

This is the Plaza Theater in Carrollton, TX. It was built in 1949.  The door that is in the foreground, the one blocked by the bench, was the "Negros only" door.  It led straight to the balcony.  Some days it feels like we have come so far beyond that time and on others it feels as if time has stood still and we are still right there.