Category Archives: {F}otography

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Wordless Wednesday ~ Meeting

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Annual Meeting 2

Following my first presentation.  I spent several conference calls and Google doc hours with these gals!

Annual Meeting 1

At the Special Focus Networks social – yummy appetizers that made me feel like a big important person!

Annual Meeting 3

Dinner at “The Original Mexican Restaurant” – super tasty!  Even Seneca’s mouth was watering!!

Sculpture

How could I not take a picture of a Calder?! 🙂

Alamo

The Alamo – pretty cool albeit small in comparison to the buildings around it.

Alamo 3

The wall around the Alamo.  Now that I see this shot, it would’ve been way cool had I focused on the sign instead of the window.

Alamo 2

A cool little walkway next to the Alamo.

Me

Since I never have any pictures taken of myself – I thought, why not?!

Alamo 4

Another cool little building near the Alamo.

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This was an outdoor amphiteather-type place.  It was pretty cool because they had it set up to really project the speaker’s voice using the natural acoustics and a few well-placed shield-like things.

Though not altogether wordless, I thought today was as good a time as any to share some of the fun from my trip!

Color ~ Best Shot Monday

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We made it home safe and sound…with most of our belongings.  I’m reserving that story for later this week.  You know, when you can look back and laugh because it all worked out.  Perhaps it will tie into what I’m thankful for this week too. 

I’m also glad to be back in the land of free Internet!  Turns out we weren’t charged for our connection, but I did learn that there was even a “better” fee at the conference center – $5.95 every 15 minutes!  Seriously!  What’s crazier is the fact that meandering through downtown Saturday we found at least 5-10 quaint little spots where we could connect for free. 

I love the color I got to soak up while on this trip.  Here’s a shot of the sparkly reflections from the lighted riverwalk – I guess we were just a week early for the amazing every-tree-is-lit shindig.  It was gorgeous nonetheless!

Riverwalk

I remember reading this article a few weeks ago, hoping I’d get a chance to capture a great image on my upcoming trip to Texas.  Thankfully, I was traveling with some super great gals who made managing my 3-month-old and all her paraphernalia so much easier.  They even indulged me a few moments here and there to snap a quick shot or two.

Here are two from our trip to San Antonio.  Aren’t the colors great?  I love the wispy clouds here too.

Horizon 2

While this one is a little plainer (is that a word?) it speaks to me.  So this is my best shot for this week.

Horizon 1

For more best shots this week, head on over to Tracey’s.

Theme Thursday ~ Imagination

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The more I’ve played with PS, the more confidence I’ve gained.  While I still have so much to learn, it’s exciting to play and to get a feel for my likes and dislikes.  Before I started playing, I thought I would play up the frames, the colors, the texts…but I find that not to be so.

This is the first “project” I’ve done, and there’s certainly a few things I might’ve changed, but I wanted to wrap it up.  I love it for today’s theme, because not only did putting this together take some creative imagination on my part (even though it’s not altogether exciting), but it also begs the question about the workings of Calder’s imagination in these shots. 

Collage

These were taken two weeks ago while the guys were splitting firewood.  He wandered around for at least 30 minutes!  He went from aimless wandering to marching on a mission – oh how I’d love to know what he was thinking as he climbed around fallen limbs, tumbled into the damp leaves (which he didn’t love), and proudly wore papa’s hat!

For other imaginative work, swing by Stacy’s.

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday ~ Weather

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Weather 1

As we headed home last Sunday morning, we anticipated a decent drive considering the bright blue skies overhead.  However, we quickly met darkness, freezing rain, and crazy road conditions.  But in true Michigan style, the weather continued to change throughout our entire drive south.  From foreboding clouds, hail and even slight accumulating snow, to intense sunshine and rainbows.  It was one of our strangest trips yet.

If I could, I would

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create a time machine.  It would be a multifunctional piece of engineering goodness.  Not only would it allow me to go back in time (perhaps one of the unwritten rules of blogging, so my apologies if I have committed the utmost blogging crime!), but it would also manufacture time.

Sounds great, huh? 

Yeah, it would collect all those little bits of time that don’t really allow for anything productive to take place, and store them all together into a big batch of time.  It’s sorta like the defragment feature on your computer.

Sadly, or ironically, it would take too much time to create this fancy-schmancy do-job, so I guess I’ll just take the few minutes I have here and give a quick update.  Anyway…I’m still here.  We’ve been having lots of fun and I hope to post some pictures soon.  And I do have to commit the timestamp treachery again because I really want to post my hubby’s birthday wishes on his actual birthday….which was last Thursday! 😦  I’m sure he appreciates the time I’ve spent with him much more than time I’d have spent finishing my writing about him!

On the fitness front, I did weigh in this week, and was very pleased with my 4.2lb loss!  I’ve gotten out running about 3 times this week, which isn’t saying much because I can’t go very far just yet.  But I did register for the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day, so now I’ve got me some motivation.

And just an FYI, not that I anticipate my absence will cause major trauma in the lives of many, but I know that in a few short weeks I will be quite fickle in my posts.  Between preparing for our presentation in San Antonio at the National Writing Project annual meeting, and getting things around for heading back into the classroom, I’m sure my plate will be heaping.  Which means, if I am here…it’s probably because I’m putting off completing something else and would rather share pictures and write about the fun stuff going on in my life! 🙂

I’ll leave you with a little shot of one of our recent outings.  There’s a new indoor playground at one of the local churches.  Calder had a great time and we’re hoping to get back there again before too long!

Playground

Since I don’t have much today, head over to Stacy’s to see what others have created this week!