Scavenger Hunt Sunday 2-12-12

It is already almost Sunday and time for another fun-filled Scavenger Hunt! I am really having a good time with these weekly photo challenges I am participating in. This one especially, makes me think outside the box and use the creative side of my brain to match up pictures with the set weekly prompts of the scavenger hunt. This weeks weather didn't allow for much time outside with a camera, so I had to use 1 picture from my archives and take a few new ones to fit the hunt prompts. With no further delay, here are the items needed for the scavenger hunt!

1. Facial Feature
2. Shadow
3. Spicy
4. Gold
5. Fabric

Here are my photos!

FACIAL FEATURE

Grandson Ethans eye!

SHADOW

Snickerdoodle cookies and their shadows. 6 more weeks of Winter??

SPICY

Jalapeno peppers, yes the waiter at the restaurant looked at me a little strange when I snapped this shot.

GOLD

Came across this sweet Golden colored horse while out on a drive. Beautiful!

FABRIC

I hope this picture of my rug counts as fabric? It is made of wool after all!

                                                      

I Heart Macro 2-12-12

Its time for another episode of "I HEART MACRO".  It is getting to be slim pickings out there in nature! I am having a harder time finding anything worthwhile to snap. I keep telling everyone it is all my fault that we havent gotten much snow here in Wisconsin. One of my main goals with photography was to be able to take close up pictures of snowflakes with a macro lens. I got my macro lens in the fall anticipating a wonderful Wisconsin winter of snow snow snow. Man, was I wrong! I dont think we have had more that 2 snowfalls this winter, 1 of which was really little sleet balls instead of actual flakes! Well, what can you do? So, here are more pictures of fungus, leaves, moss etc like I have been posting for weeks now!

Golden pod of some kind.

Sticker Burrs

 This fungus almost looks like a flower against the snow.

Another fungus

 Moss with growth?

 I thought the green of the moss was striking against the white of the snow.

Pretty light through a pretty damaged leaf.

Your Sunday Best

The weather has been a bit rough for photography here in Wisconsin! Who would have thought that on a miserable day with temperatures in the single digits, blowing and drifting snow, it  would have turned out to be a great day to snap some nature pics? Not me that's for sure! Started the day at our local coffee shop with sister-in-law Kim, we had some Peppermint Mocha and a cream cheese brownie. It was a short get together because of a sick kid and school getting out, but I was still in the mood to go on a short photo shoot. I drove out to a rural park on the river and saw 100's of geese in a corn field with the heavy snow swirling around them. Just as I rolled my window down, a bunch of the geese took off, flying over the field. I luckily had my camera ready, here is the shot I took out of my window! My favorite shot of the week.

P52 Week 6 2-10-12

Well, first off I have to admit I skipped out on week 5. The subject for that weeks P52 was Shadow. I didnt have anything at all to use for this prompt. I went out to shoot something for it, and just wasnt happy with any of the shots I got, so I had to admit defeat and just not participate! Not so this week! The photo prompt was "Drink up". This I can do! Here is a photo of the Peppermint Mocha I had today when Kim and I went to the coffee shop. It was short but sweet, and I had a great time as always. I was only in the teens today, windy and blowing snow so we decided to skip out on our usual photo session and just get together for coffee, lunch and visiting!

DRINK UP!

Yummy!!

Your Sunday Best

Thought I would try a new photo challenge this week. This one is called "Your Sunday Best" where you post your favorite photo of the week. Not sure this one is my favorite, but I do think its pretty. We had some wild weather this week and all the trees and plants were covered in white. I went for a drive with Grandbaby Kileigh and we came upon this tree coated in white. It is pretty much a natural black and white.

I Heart Macro 2-5-12

Everything was covered in white! Not snow either. I know it is not a macro shot, but I wanted you to get the idea of what I was talking about.

Icy Berries 1

 Icy Berries 2

 Queen Anns Lace is beautiful even in the winter!

Wild Lavendar

Flower Remnants

 Snowy Grass

Frozen Droplets

What a week! We had some crazy weather this past week. Wednesday and Thursday here is Wisconsin, we had extremely heavy fog that also left heavy white slushy stuff on all the trees and plants. You will have to forgive my terminology, I don't know the exact weather term for this, so white slushy stuff is what it will be known as for now! All I know, is that it was beautiful! I went driving around Thursday and took some pictures to show you. I loved the fog/white combo, so pretty and fun to see. Then on Friday, Kim and I met for a couple hours, we then headed out to "The Spot" for some photo action. Saturday, we met again for coffee/breakfast/lunch and a nature walk/photo shoot with her boys. I Hope you have a wonderful week, thank you for stopping buy!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday 2-5-12

These weeks continue to fly by! I cant believe it is Sunday already. I had lots of time out in Nature this week. We have had several days in the mid to upper 40's here in Wisconsin! It is usually in the 0-20 degree range this time of year. It sure does work for me, I could really get used to the unseasonably warm weather and lack of deep snow. It makes walking in the woods much easier, not to mention more comfortable without the added bulk of super heavy clothing. I am sure we will pay for it soon, but meanwhile, I am not going to complain!
Anyway, here are this weeks prompts for Scavenger Hunt Sunday!

1. Strike A Pose
2. Footwear
3. Hobby
4. Shiny
5. Color me Green

I thought some of these prompts might be a bit challenging with the time of year we are in, but really they weren't at all. I was able to get my hunt list wrapped up Friday when Kim and I went on a nature walk/photo session Friday and Saturday. I hope you like my pictures! Thanks for stopping by, it means a lot to me!

STRIKE A POSE

My little sweetheart posing for me! Grandangel Kileigh.

FOOTWEAR

Grandson Ethans favorite footwear, nothing!

HOBBY

Feeding the birds and taking pictures of them is one of my MANY hobbies. I love the tongue sticking out on this one!

SHINY

 Frozen water droplet on a twig.

COLOR ME GREEN

Pine branches coated in white.