Project 52

19/52 - Faces

20/52 - Light

 21/52 - Backyard

First time I've seen a family of geese on the canal in my backyard.

22/52 - My Life

The older I get in my life the more I enjoy looking at the small wonders around me.

 23/52 - Blur

24/52 - Motion

25/52 - Dreamy

26/52 - Old

27/52 - Euphora

Small town 4th of July celebrations

28/52 - Silly

A rare capture of the dog that hates the camera.

 29/52 - Weakness

Bad haircut and all this dog has my heart.

30/52 - Loud

31/52 - Landscape

Hiked in 3.5 miles for this shot, only to find out I left my DSLR battery home, thank goodness for iPhone cameras.

32/52 - Solitary

One lucky puppy in the middle of best friends.

33/52 - Random

All parts must be protected when attempting this dive.

 

Project 52

I've been missing from this blog for a little too long, but I have been keeping up (barely) with a new challenge I'm trying to complete, it's called Project 52. It's taking a photo a week based on that weeks prompt. There might be a few weeks that I'm playing catch up and do a few in one week, but I'm making progress. I've completed 18 weeks, so I'm on a roll.

1/52 - Reflection

My happy corner when I can find time.

2/52 - Imperfection

Because of arthritis and hip dysplasia my golden has a hard time walking, but he still insists on trips down to get our paper and mail. As long as he's still happy, I don't care how many stops he has to take to make it back up our long driveway.

3/52 - Inside

I wish I knew what thoughts were inside those eyes.

4/52 - Joy
It's been one of those weeks and trying to find joy for this weeks theme has been difficult, but culling through this session from yesterday of my friends one year old grandson is bringing me joy.

5/52 - Noise
Grinding on the old VW bug he is restoring.

6/52 - Paradise

My little bit of paradise after a long week of being sick, is sitting down with fresh popped popcorn to watch a movie with my husband

7/52 - Focus

8/52 - Bright
Something to "bright"en up my craftroom.

9/52 - Colorblind

 10/52 - Soft

11/52 - Pattern
This guy will always be a little boy at heart!

12/52 - Blue

13/52 - Vast
Nothing like the vast unconditional love of a dog.

14/52 - Radiate

15/52 - White
I hope this means that our spring is on it's way!

16/52 - Mine
2 acres to explore, but when I'm outside my buddy is right by my side.

17/52 - Pastel
I made it thru Easter without one candy purchase until the 30% off sign today made this impulse purchase a necessity.

 18/52 - Moody

Christmas

Here's a Christmas catch up post.  I'll be short on words, but I'll at least I'll have some pictures posted to remind myself I participated.

The annual Christmas party at Grandma Pat's is always a hit with the grandkids, but having all these great grandkids around is what I focus my pictures on.

Grandma Pat (on left) spends endless hours on this party each year. The bonus is always walking away with a new personalized ornament for our tree.

Now a few pictures from my parents get together on Christmas day.

 Father and son taking a nap after their bellies are full.

It's nice to have Taylor back after serving his two year mission.

My parents opening their presents. My mom looks a little hesitant knowing she's going to have to learn how to use her new Kindle as Dad studies his DVD collection of National Geographic (I may have to borrow those!).

This is what happens when you set your camera down, your nephew decides to take a few back side shots while you're helping your mom with her Kindle.

And me telling Ian to make sure he wasn't showing off his underwear in his low rider jeans.

One good picture of Ian and Bob together, and then it turned into this.

Valuable lesson learned that day, make sure to take pictures when your kids are around. We saw Chase early that day, but I really thought we would be seeing him again so I could get pictures with both him and Ian with his dad, lesson learned!