I Dreamed A Dream P52

It is week 3 of the 52 week photo challenge named "P52". This weeks theme was in honor of Martin Luther King day, and was aptly titled "I Dreamed a Dream". I didnt have any photos of myself (surprise, surprise) so I decided to use a picture of Grandbaby Kileigh (3) I took this week. She is so deep in thought a lot of times. I wonder what she daydreams about, where her thoughts take her, what her hopes and dreams for the future are. I wish I knew. It could be she is thinking about her Mommy when I watch her, or her toys, her favorite cartoons, or maybe its more deep like about when she grows up, what she wants to be, where she wants to go in life. Maybe she just thinks about what she wants to eat or play next. I hope that the latter is the case. Kids grow up much to quickly these days. I hope her dreams are all about happy thoughts and simple pleasures. She will have to face the rest soon enough, just be little Kileigh. Growing up isn't always what its cracked up to be. I Love you!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday 1-15-12

Another week has come and gone. The older I get, the faster time goes it seems. The weather here finally matches the season we are in. We got some snow and the highs are in the teens right now. Not the same weather we had on Wednesday when Kim and I went on a nature walk. It was 50 degrees and absolutely beautiful, especially in January in Wisconsin. We took advantage of that for a photo shoot. We are finding less and less interesting subjects to snap, but if we look deep enough and walk far enough, we can still find a couple of "gems" to snap. Sit back and enjoy my nature walk with me. I so enjoy your visit! Here are the photo prompts for this weeks hunt:
1. Stacked Up
2. Winter Wonderland
3. Sweet
4. Hole
5. Frozen
A couple of the prompts worried us a bit considering the weather, like Winter Wonderland, and Frozen. Mother Nature cooperated with us and on Thursday we had a decent snowstorm, so we could finish the Scavenger Hunt with frest photos!

Stacked Up

A stack of fungi on a downed tree.

Winter Wonderland

Delicate little Snowflake

Another one!

Sick of them yet??

Sweet

Oreo Balls, yummy and oh so rich! Made by Jess!

Hole

Perfect hole in a rock.

Frozen

Icicles on my truck

Have a wonderful week and thank you so much for visiting my blog!

I Heart Macro 1-14-12

Hi! Welcome to my "I Heart Macro" post for this week. We had wonderful weather for half of this week, so Kim and I decided to get together for tea/breakfast/lunch then take a nature walk on Wednesday while the weather was so nice. When it is January in Wisconsin, you can blink and the weather will go from 50's to 10 below zero, so if it hits the 50's, you need to take advantage of it as soon as possible. thats exactly what we did. Here are some of the many photos I took that day. Thanks for stopping by!

Birds nest in a birdhouse

Grass

Little leaf only about 1/2" tall

Branch with a sun spot.

Leaves and berries

Maddux's fur makes a great snowflake catcher! This is a new one, much better than the older one I posted!

Project 52 Photo Challenge 1-13-12

Week two of the year-long photo challenge nicknamed P52 is here. The theme for this week is:
Made with Love.

Jeez, my creative energies have been flowing, but not in a crafting way, in a photography way lately. I haven't actually MADE anything with my photography other than some canvas prints. What to do? Then I remembered one of the gifts I received from my daughter, well, technically my 2 year old Grandson Ethan. He "made" me a coffee mug, actually more aptly a "Tea" mug. He decorated it beautifully, I am sure with a little help from his Mommy. I loved it when I opened it. Later when I was home and washed it, I noticed a TINY little heart on the handle I had missed earlier upon opening my gift. I talked to Jess later in the day and said, "How cute, I missed the little heart you made on the handle". She said "I didn't make a heart on the handle, Ethan must have made it"! Now keep in mind that Ethan just turned 2 in November. Here it is "MADE WITH LOVE". Have a wonderful weekend.

My Tea Mug

Ethans tiny little heart

Scavenger Hunt Sunday 1-8-2012

Hi! Happy Sunday and welcome to my Scavenger Hunt Sunday post! I have so much fun doing these Scavenger Hunts. I hope you enjoy looking at my photos too. I usually post Saturday night, but had a little unexpected visitor overnight last night, which delayed my post. So worth it though! I love the time I spend with my little Kileigh Lynn. With no further delay, I present my takes on the prompts for Scavenger Hunt Sunday.
This is the list of items I needed to find a photo of:
1. One Color
2. Laundry
3. Empty
4. One Dozen
5. Soft

ONE COLOR

Have I said lately how much I LOVE my Macro Lens?

LAUNDRY

Little laundry helper!

EMPTY

Love this gorgeous "Empty Nest"

ONE DOZEN

A dozen heart beads waiting to be used in a creation

SOFT

Puffy fluffy Milkweed from Fridays nature walk

I Heart Macro 1-8-12

Wow, January is already flying by! I can't believe it is the 8th already. and time for another "I Heart Macro". Kim, Jess (daughter) Ethan, Kileigh (grandson, granddaughter) and I all met at the coffee shop for some Breakfast/lunch and hot tea Friday. Kim and I were going on a photo shoot in the afternoon since our weather in Wisconsin is unseasonably warm. We almost hit 50 Friday! Here are some of my favorite macro shots for the day. Have a wonderful Sunday, and the rest of the week too.

Milkweed, looks like a flower!

Gorgeous Berries

Center of a flower

Unknown Flowers Remnants

Pinecone

Cedar Berries

Project 52 - Weekly Photo Challenge

Ok, I like a challenge! I came across Project 52 while on my daily journey around the blogosphere and thought to myself, just what I need! Something to give me a kick in the pants so to speak, something to get me out there taking pictures. As many of you know, I already participate in "I Heart Macro" as well as "Scavenger Hunt Sunday". I wanted a challenge where I would be told what the subject matter is, a subject matter that would send me out into the world to find a shot that fit the theme of the week. Viola! There it was, Project 52. The theme this week is RESOLUTION.
In visiting many blogs, I was struck by how many people use a word of the year as their New Years Resolution. I have never been much of a resolution making kinda girl, but as many of you know, "the Times, they are a changin"! I decided to pick a word that would represent something that is lacking in my life. I found it in the word SERENITY. 2011 was a great, but stress-filled year for me. I lost my Mother, had some personal set-backs and some challenges in my personal life. I won't bore you to tears with details, but I have my word now. The definition of Serenity is: 

\Se*ren"i*ty\, n. [L. serenuas: cf. F. s['e]r['e]nit['e].] 1. The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace. A general peace and serenity newly succeeded a general trouble. --Sir W. Temple. 2. Calmness of mind; eveness of temper; undisturbed state; coolness; composure. I can not see how any men should ever transgress those moral rules with confidence and serenity. --Locke. Note: Serenity is given as a title to the members of certain princely families in Europe; as, Your Serenity.

Now, the use of Serenity as a title to address members of princely families doesn't apply,  but boy the rest sure does.I decided to combine the first of the Project 52 Challenge with  my word for 2012 and present to you my first photo! "SERENITY"