Rainy Days and Mondays....

“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.” - Buddha

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Photo-blog Challenges
Monthly Challenge #2- Triptych

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Patsy

A Late Start...

" Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. " ~ William Davenant

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Photoblog Challenges - Creative Project #2- Glass

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Photoblog Challenges- Theme #3- Looking Down

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Patsy

Tuesday.. I Thought I Smelled Rain...

" Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. " ~  Samuel Ullman

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Photoblog Challenges- Weekly Project #12-  Water

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The Creative Exchange-

Ruby Tuesday

Rednesday
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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31 Photos in 31 Days- Day # 9
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
August Break 2011
 
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Project Life Tuesday~
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday My World
 
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Two 4 Tuesday- Entrance / Exit
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Thanks for stopping by my world today.. I have had an amazing day.. laughing with Dave this morning and with my sister and friends this afternoon..  I am blessed..  I welcome comments and followers..
Have a great day!
Patsy

Photoblog Challenges.. Orange!

"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."

 ~  James Broughton


Monthly Project #7- one color- I chose ORANGE!

string

                                

canna lily

 Orange soda can




toy car

two butterflies

a cup with dots

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Patsy

Saturday Hotter Than We Can Stand... Storm Warnings..

"You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall."
- Jawaharlal Nehru

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Photoblog Challenges- Weekly Project #4

In a Cemetery...

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Camera Critters #166

Weekend Reflections #91-

Fingerprint Friday-

Thursday Challenge- Liquid-

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Friday My Town Shootout- fishing-

Dave and his co-workers

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Sepia  Saturday-

vintage baggage scales

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Macro Flower Saturday-

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PhotoHunt #270-  Informative

Foto Finish- Something New

Barnwell skaters hope to raise

money for a new Skate Park...












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I hope you have a wonderful day....
Patsy

Wednesday.. the Week Keeps On Moving Along!

"The world's favorite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May."
  - Edwin Way Teale

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Photoblog Challenges~ Theme #20- Landscapes

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                          
                              
                                      Technique #12- Sepia-
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                       Sepia Scenes #132-
 
 
 
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Watery Wednesday #141~
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wordless Wednesday-
 
 
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               White Wednesday-  #101
 
 
                White Oleander
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Have a wonderful day!
Patsy

Photoblog Challenges..

" A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything."
 ~ George Lucas

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Photoblog Challenges offers many exciting photo challenges including monthly projects.. themes ...and techniques .. Plus..   They have tutorials that are helpful..  Please do go and check the sight out if you love a good photo challenge!


Technique #10- Macro-

 
 
 
 
 
 
he bites!
 
 
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Theme #18- The Arts
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cooper.. perfecting his art...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Monthly Project #5- Photo Hunt-
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
#6- Depth of Field..
" Large- everything in focus "
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
              #12 Light Source-
                 " Candle "
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
#13 Location-
" In Your Town "
 
 
 
 
 
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Thanks for stopping by my blog today.. Blogger had some minor issues last week and some of my posts had to be reloaded.. please go back and visit those if you missed them.. I welcome both comments and followers. Have a wonderful day..
Patsy

Friday the Thirteenth.. I Am Not Afraid!

"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes. " ~  Judy Holliday

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Photoblog Challenges- Monthly Project
Photo Hunt #9- Food/ Candy

Pink Friday #70-

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Sky Watch Friday-

this is very close to the center
of our small town..

Welcome to my World!


Photo Friday- "My World"

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Friday My Town Shoot Out -
National Nurses and Hospital Workers week!

my Daughter Emily.. when she isn't posing patiently
for her Mom's camera she is busy taking
care of the clients at the local nursing home.. or
visiting clients who have gone home and yet may
still need a happy face to visit them..  she loves her
job and all of the "Old Folks" she tends...
I Love you  Em! I am very proud of you!
You are one of my fingerprints from God!






Fingerprint Friday-

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Weekend Reflections - #86-

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Patsy

Thursday.. Hot with a Slim Chance of Rain...

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.”
~ James Earl Jones

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Photoblog Challenges- Monthly Challenge -
Photo Hunt  #5- crop- square

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thursday Challenge- "pets"..  this wonderful cat came with the house that my sister.. Martha.. recently moved into...though he is more than half wild he came close enough and lay down for his photo shoot.. as soon as I reached out my hand to touch him..  he was off in a flash to give me dirty looks across the yard..  I think I will name him  Percival...
 
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Shoot Me-
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Yard Art on Thursday-
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
here in the "Bucket Jungle" anything at all can become yard art.. this old wheel that was once part of of a band saw.. at a saw mill..  is lovely covered with lacy hummingbird vine...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Have a wonderful day!
Patsy

Saturday- a Showcase of Feathered Friends..

"Birds of a feather flock together." – Old English Proverb * * * * * * * * * * This week I have discovered a new place to play! Photoblog Challenges is a new website to display your photographic work, and compete in 3 friendly challenges : - in the Best Of challenges, you can submit the best photo you posted the week before - in the Theme challenges, you can show your unique view on the given subject - in Monthly Projects, you can challenge yourself with a variety of multi -photos assignments... This is My submission for 9 of a Kind.. Fine Feathered Friends.. - #1 Itsy Bitsy and Boo - three finches who sleep in a gourd... #2- Romeo... a ring necked Dove.. #3- Polka and Dot.. they are fancy show chickens... or they were before they were given to me.. here they are just feathered friends.. #4- Horus... a Pharaoh Quail- #5- Buster.. a plain old Rooster.. #6- Janet Jackson - a polish top hat hen.. she really is odd in person...

- #7 Lakeside quackers- that red faced guy is quite a bully..

#8- Boomerang- he is cheerful guy..

#9 Sampson and Delilah- I love to hear them chirp!

- Camera Critters #150--I love CRITTERS.. and feathered critters are my favorite!

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Patsy