Home Christmas shots

I am still playing with my camera and going for some fun, colorful Christmas scenes from around the house. While taking a picture of the poinsettia, I discovered why the cats were sick last week.

And this is my favorite, I like how the angel reflects the lights. And then there are a few in this badge that I liked. My son thought I was crazy...

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November Water Reflection Shots

The only color is in the reflection of the sky and pines in the brook.

I love the textures and shapes in the photo.

On Friday, I noticed the red berry reflections in the brook and brought along my camera for Saturday's walk. The sky was overcast, but there were still reflections to be found.

Initial shot of berries reflected in the water.

1/2 of the pond was iced over.

Out back by the Beaver Pond

When cats hoard

It's even better when the mice can be found floating in the water bowl.


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Photography and my First World Problem

I am enjoying the idea of labeling First World Problems, in my daily life. They are problems that only people in privileged, technologically advanced societies have, in comparison to real problems like food, shelter and safety. This website has more information: Know your Meme.

This was my First World Problem of the week, I was going in to work on the evening shift and had to bring my mini van in for new snow tires and then get home in time for the delivery of a new wash machine. ( There goes the mortgage payment that we didn't have to pay b/c of refinancing this month...)But  what I really wanted to do, was to go out and take pictures of the ice that was forming on the trees overnight as we are in the midst of melting. Which is kind of weird for us to have a mud season in November. After all of my early morning errands, I did get a couple of pictures. They may not have been what I wanted, but it's all good. Because, I do have a roof over my head, a job and my health, plus a great family. No real problems here this week.

My goal for this winter? To get a better close-up shot of our resident cardinal.

Early Snow

 How sad to see the autumn leaves weighed down by snow. It's even sadder to hear that we have a bigger storm in the fore cast for tomorrow evening. Leaves + snow = power outages.

 This is even sadder, we haven't taken care of our summer things in the yard yet, furniture, kayaks and gardens.

A Compliment, Kind of, I think....

 

I was on the phone today with middle son, "How do you like the pictures that I sent you this week?"

"Nice pictures"he replied.

Did I just take the compliment and say thank you? Of course not. Here's the rest of the conversation:

How do you think I am doing?

He pauses and then says, "Well, you are taking pictures of trees in New England in Fall, kind of hard to take a bad picture."

Okay, so I probably took some literary license with the last statement, but that's what I heard and he's right. It's been fun taking pictures in the fall, so many colors. 

Even in my front yard, it's gone wild with flowers.

And in our woods, where some of the flowers were tossed in as weeds this summer.

But snow is in the forecast along with a frost and the colors won't last. The wind and cold will change all of that. Usually the flowers above only last a week after blooming and  I got a week more due to the warm weather.

Donating our Family's Memories

Today I brought five boxes of stuff to a yard sale being held by the Marines here in town. In those five boxe, there were our VHS tapes from my children's collection. We have one VHS and don't watch them anymore, time to let go. My goal is to get rid of stuff we don't use.

The first day I started cleaning there were some tears involved as I remembered those days of using Mary Poppins as a babysitter (such a long movie), The Little Mermaid when I had placenta previa with my second pregnancy and first son was 2 and it scared the crap out of him, Winnie the Pooh and son# 2  and Mighty Ducks and son #3. Also included were the movies that grated on our nerves for bad acting and animation- Hot Wheels, Stuart Little and that one Winnie the Pooh with Cressy bird. But then I got a little militant about the number of movies we ended up with, what a racket that was. Where was Netflix when I needed it? About 20 years in the future, lesson learned: don't get sucked into new technology!