One is the loneliest...

23/365

Pine needles

22/365

Evergreen

18/365

Berries

17/365

Frost

11/365
The end of fall is rapidly approaching now that we have gotten our first freeze.

Marigold

 6/365
I cannot believe that I still have flowers in my garden!  It has been so cold and even frosted some over the last couple of weeks but my flowers are still going strong.

Bonus
When I process my photos, I always open them with camera raw in photoshop.  The first thing I do is change the white balance from "as shot" to "auto".  Most times I do not use this because it almost always changes the balance to the other extreme and I don't like it... however, sometimes it looks fun.  When I changed the setting on this photo I liked the creamy muted color it gave the flower.

Goldenrod + textures

4/365
I don't usually add textures to my photos.  Usually I completely forget about textures to be honest.  But today I was in the mood, so I used two of the textures that Rita over at the CoffeeShop Blog makes.  I used one of her painting textures and a grunge texture, both brushed off the flower itself.

August according to my phone

Continuing the monthly instragram sized look back of random stuff that I took photos of on my phone, I realized that August was a busy month!  It started out slow with some randomness and lots of rain and clouds.  It ended with Kiera starting Kindergarten, two fairs, and a birthday party.  Of course there was plenty in between.

Sunday Scavenger Hunt

I have to admit that this weeks prompts were harder than they should have been for me.  The colors mostly. I wanted to avoid a photo that had all the colors in them, like say a flag.  And I have plenty of White and Blue things around my house, but didn't think that taking a photo of the shampoo bottle would really set the right tone.  I did finally come up with a photo for each prompt... although they may not be my best.  Without further ado...

Red

My daughter and I attended our local rodeo parade this past weekend.  Afterwards they were having an antique car show.  My father-in-law loves Corvettes so we decided to take him a photo.  The one we found just happened to be red.

White

This is the photo that I had the most difficulty with.  I found this seeding plant on the playground to my daughter's school when we went there to play.  It was white.  It works.

Blue

Nothing says long weekend like a blueberry martini.  They are so sweet (almost too much) and so pretty.

Stars

My daughter recently got an ice tray that makes star shaped ice.  How could I not use that for Stars?

Sparkle

We had a wonderful 4th.  We saw beautiful fireworks, ate good food, and played (that was mostly Kiera though).

Sunday Scavenger Hunt

It has been a few weeks since I posted to the scavenger hunt.  Even though I don't feel like we really do that much around here, it always seems that Sunday sneaks up on me.

Tools

I found this old wheelbarrow at a condemned house one day.  I had driven by and seen it multiple times and finally made my husband stop and get it.  I knew that I wanted it to be a planter.  This photo was taken the day we put everything together.  The flowers are not as pretty anymore.  But for this day, they looked great!

Motion

 Near my town we have a "fun center" called Fast Lanes.  There they have bowling, indoor go-carts (electric ones so there are no fuel fumes), and an arcade.  We went there for the first time recently.  My daughter, who is 5, got to drive the go-carts by herself.  She is a driving fool.  She has her own go-cart at her grandparents house.  She also really likes bowling.  Yes she still uses the bumpers but she bowled for the entire hour that we had the lane.

Sweet

I did a photo shoot for a friend earlier this month.  This is her youngest son.  He is really a sweetie.  He laughed and smiled the whole shoot.  When he wasn't trying to eat my fuzzy blanket.  He had a crocheted monkey hat and bloomers complete with a tail for his photos.  He was a cute little monkey.

Dots

I didn't have any photos involving actual dots.  Then it occurred to me... Water droplets are dot shaped.  Tah-dah!  We got this hopscotch water sprinkler thingy at Family Dollar a few weeks ago.  It is actually pretty fun to play on.  You know Mom has to make sure all new things are "safe".  No matter where you step you are going to get shot in the eye with water.

Stripes

Enough said.

Sunday Scavenger Hunt

I am so glad that the internet has returned to my home.  I can now begin participating in weekly photo prompts and start writing on the new blog that I started just before the internet disappeared the last time.  This week I am taking part in the Sunday Scavenger Hunt hosted by Ramblings and Photos.  Here is how the topics translated themselves in my family this week.

Dishes

Okay so it is only really one dish.  My sister-in-law's birthday was this week and we all went to lunch together.  Ice tea with lemon... condensation running down the glass.  Beautiful.  Art to a southerner.

Favorite Color

My favorite color is pink which just happens (by no real coincidence) to be the color of my new Knockout Rose bush.  I have yet to keep any plant that I have planted alive.  I am hoping that my knockout rose makes it through.  The day after I planted it the wind decided that it hated the town I live in.  Currently there is a max of two blooms left with petals.

Sunflare

The sunflare is almost not a sunflare but it is the closest that I got.  I was not shooting with the prompts in mind and I have been trying to be mindful of the sun's location while shooting.

Expression

This is my sister-in-law.  This is her "I'm a diva in my new Ray Ban sunglasses" look.  She is a dork.

Sticky

My daughter loves stick on tattoos.  This very pretty tiger was almost impossible to get off her arm.  She tried to wash it off herself and it became very sticky... very.  We ended up using windex to remove it.


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