A heat wave today! 98/365

Today the weather was a wonderful 60 degrees and I took a lot of pictures!
The sunshine, the warm weather just inspired me. After yesterdays sorry attempt at a sunset, I decided to find a good place to take a picture of the sunset. That took us to Miller Beach (Lake Michigan) and one of my favorite spots out there The Lagoon (Gary Indiana). Oh yeah, we took the dogs with us. They also needed to get out.
I couldn't decide which one to post so I picked five. If you want to see the whole set, I've uploaded it to flicker http://www.flickr.com/photos/16119903@N07/

TGIF! 97/365

It's been a long week and I'm tired.
This beautiful image was taken by Pam - when she came to visit last month she did a mini session with Isabella. She was showing me about lighting and stuff. I've been a little leery of editing them because I'm afraid I won't do as good a job as she would but I have to do it and get over it. She took some beautiful images. Pam brought with her this cute hat and petite skirt. Isabella fell in love with them. I wondered how I was going to get it away from her!
Thanks Pam. I love the images. I will share more later.
My image for today. This was the view this evening from my back door. Darn trees are in my way - LOL
why did I think I could take great images with my P&S. I guess they serve their purpose but I have the DSLR's why mess around with this one and then get upset when I get grainy pictures.
Oh well, the snow is melting and the days are getting longer. Thank God spring is around the corner!

Play date 96/365

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso

I wondered, momentarily what I would do with all of my scrapbooking supplies. I've found my answer. Here we used glitter/glue pens, paint, markers, buttons, flowers and more. Not to mention some cardstock.

First image taken by Dave

This is my picture of the day. Evidence that Isabella was here

and this one was taken by Sandrita with her P&S.

I decided to start her on her Valentines day cards. She held this one up to her mommy and said "Happy day mommy."

More snow . . . 95/365

Look what I got up to again this morning . . . more snow! Yay. No it's not noise in this picture it's lots of snow coming down. This pine tree sits across the street from our home. Used my P&S again today.

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time. Frank Bolles

Of winter's lifeless world each tree Now seems a perfect part;Yet each one holds summer's secret Deep down within its heart.
Charles G. Stater

Aw winter . . . 94/365

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Welcome to my winter garden. Care to have a seat?

Yesterday was a beautiful, balmy 30 degrees and sunny. So, during my lunch hour, I washed my little car, got all that yucky salt and dirt off of it. I gave it a quick wax and wiped the windows down and sprayed the tires. Today, we are in the mist of a winter storm warning. See all that "smoke" looking stuff? It's snow blowing sideways. It's really cold and I'm so looking forward to spring.

These were taken with a Nikon Point and shoot camera.

It's just a picture . . . 93/365

Can I add one more thing to my schedule? Yes I can. Here is one of the things I worked on today. It's a loom. I'm making something. LOL
Sorry, I ran out of ideas and time for taking a picture today, so there it is a little piece of my life.

Baby I 92/100

We went to a Superbowl party at a friends house. It was so much fun and what an exciting game - way to go STEELERS.

This is baby I. He's 4 weeks old. He was such a sweetie. What do you think of the conversion. My B/W's are usually very contrasty and I wanted something a bit softer.