A Tye-Dye B-Day

Happy Birthday Grandmother!

Everyone got a tye-dyed shirt to celebrate the occasion. We went to Steak-n-Shake for the grand birthday dinner, in our tye-dye shirts of course!

After dinner, cake, and presents, we were off to play Goofy Golf!

Yes, still wearing the shirts, but now we have beads too! Ummm, Liz and Tori...where are your beads?!

And the winner was....Grandmother!

I'm Bored

I am feeling very uncreative lately. Nothing too exciting going on here. Same kind of picture from the same kind of place. I need to get out of my yard!

Black-Eyed Susan

Time to start making pictures instead of just taking pictures!

A Pitcher

I asked Liz to draw me a picture and I would take a picture of it. Well she didn't feel creative so I asked Jim to draw me a picture. I went off to do the dishes while he was drawing. When I returned I noticed that he had the paper turned over and he was looking quite innocent. So I knew something was up...here's my pitcher. "You said draw you a picture, so I drew you a pitcher!" Oh so proud of himself! I live with this everyday folks.

I played around in Photoshop to see what I could do with the drawing. Below is the original.

The Moon Again

Coming home from shopping tonight I just couldn't help but notice how amazing the moon was. What was also amazing was how the sun was going down on one side of me and the moon was shining on the other side! I wonder if you could do a panoramic picture of that, that would be pretty cool!

Rain is a Good Thing

Rain is a good thing! Finally a little relief from this heat.

A happy little leaf! :0)

Shameful

 

I was able to find a few shaped hole punchers today so I could experiment with the how-to shaped bokeh pictures I saw on the Digital Photography School forum.. I figured out how to attach the shape to the lens then I began to take a few shots. I took about 15 but still not quite perfect yet, maybe when it gets a little darker. Let's take a look at what I've got so far. Here is where I began to notice a line or something on the hearts. 

Hey, that is kinda cool! You know how much I love to find faces in things! Hmmm, wonder what is causing those lines? Let's look just a little bit closer....

HOLY COW!! What is that??!!! Dirt!! OH MY GOSH!  where is this dirt located??? Oh what have I done to my camera?? I am going to die.....

Well, after my heart attack and a bit closer inspection, I discover that I have the dirtiest, yuckiest, most shameful UV filter on my lens. Oh, thank goodness it was just the  UV filter, but still, that's shameful!

Giant Lily's

Oh so pretty, what more could I say? Thanks Elsie for sharing them with me!