113 posts tagged “photographs”
I took this shot of Lady on Saturday before I left for work. I had to take it through the glass in the back door to keep from waking her up. I was supposed to have Monday off, but they ask me to work anyway. It wasn't too bad. We got the orders done and several cakes for the cake case, too. I worked by myself today. I had a lot more orders than we usually do on Monday. Today I felt really good about every cake I decorated. I felt like I had done the best I could do. Everyone seemed really happy when they picked up their cake, so that was nice, too. I did make a couple of unique cakes that I took pictures of, but I will wait until tomorrow to post the pictures. I want to go watch Monday night football!
This is the only fall color I have in my yard. This bush is about 30 years old, but we give it "haircuts" every year or two to keep it from growing too big.
Off to the west of our house, there is a creek with bluffs that get some color in the trees. They are mostly hardwoods, a lot of oaks, so they don't have the brilliant colors that softwoods do. In this shot, the sun was peaking through the clouds in just the right place to highlight the trees.
Even though we have had some cold weather, down to 28 on Sunday morning, I still have a few petunias hanging on. Of course I had to edit this one. I just love the watercolor effect. I intensified the color, too.
The dogs are off for a walk, so I'm going to sneak outside and see if I can find anything to take pictures of and/or dig up in the flower bed. I know I had a couple of plants that I meant to bring in. It may be too late!
I can't remember the last time I had a day off when I didn't have to do anything or go anywhere. It was really nice. I slept in and took a nap. I washed clothes and spent several hours cooking. My hubby was in the hospital this week because he is having swallowing problems and now he is on a soft food diet. If you can't feed it to a baby, he can't have it. So I made broccoli cheese soup for lunch with chocolate pudding. I had bought a new immersible blender on Friday, so I used that to puree his soup. It turned out so nice that I pureed all of it. For dinner, I made mashed potatoes, mashed cauliflower, gravy, and green beans. He didn't eat any of the green beans. I ran the cauliflower through the blender with some milk to make sure it was creamy. He ate some more pudding and I had jello. I might lose a few pounds if we do this very long, but that wouldn't be a bad thing. His doctor is supposed to call on Monday with more information about some more tests that he has to go in for next week.
I finally took time tonight to look at the photos for our family reunion. There is one of the whole family that is pretty good. It is hard to get this many people all sitting still and looking in the same direction.
This is the whole gang, except for one daughter and her husband. She was sick, and he was out of town. Each family is more of less wearing the same color, and is together in the group. The exception is the red heads in grey. They got scattered around since their mom and dad weren't there. I'll see if I can find a picture of the six of them.
This is our oldest granddaughter with her baby, and her three sisters and little brother.
I have to work late again tomorrow, but we shouldn't be too busy, so I might be able to get some more pictures. All of the cakes and cupcakes that I made last week were gone by Friday. So, I guess I'll start over! Plus we took several orders based on the pictures I had taken and placed in our idea book. That has worked out really well.
I'm going to go relax and watch some college football.
It started raining about this time last night and hasn't stopped. I'm glad I was at work all day. My shoes and socks got soaked walking across the parking lot this morning, but they dried out after a couple of hours! I forgot to take my camera this morning. Darn! I ended up making a really cute frog cake freehand, more or less, and several really cute pumpkins.
Since I don't have cake photos to share, I'll go back to our family pictures from Sunday. I finally figured out where my computer put them!
Here's my favorite photo of my great-grandson with his mother. He was 1 month old on October 1st.
Here's my youngest grandson. He was born January 26th of this year. He usually has a great big smile. I like this more serious look.
And last but not least, a close up of the baby. I was holding him and looking into his eyes when I took this. My camera has a pre-flash that goes off when you depress the shutter half way so you can focus the camera by pointing it at the subject and depressing the shutter. I was holding the camera above my head.
We had a mini family reunion on Sunday. We had arranged for a photographer to come out to the farm to take family pictures. Some of the kids wanted shots of their families with a natural background, so we set up a fence and got some bales of straw. Of course, everyone was taking shots of the groups that the photographer was shooting. Here's one that our daughter took of my hubby and me. Not too bad for a couple of old timers!
I wanted to post some of the photos that I took. They are on the computer, 'cause I can edit them, but I can't find them when I click on "photos". Guess I'll have to try again later. Maybe I can figure out where they are!
This afternoon we went to preview the photos from Sunday. I bought some of all the grandkids to give to our kids for Christmas, and we bought a CD with all the shots on it. So I may have to wait until I get the CD to show you the whole gang. It isn't easy getting 27 people to look good for a photo. Especially when one of them is a four year old clown!
I didn't take any cake pictures yesterday. Mostly cakes for orders. A couple of them were cute, but I was by myself so I was busy.
I'm home today and it is rainy and windy, so I'm not in the mood to go out and take any photos, so I'm playing around with my last set of dahlia photos. Did a little cropping and color, brightness, and contrast adjustment. I'll see if you can tell the difference.
I think I like this one best. Somehow it was in the shade, and since I only have one bloom, one of the dogs must have been helping me out!
I've got company coming this weekend, so I must do some housecleaning today. Boo! Hiss!
The dahlias that I planted in the spring have had a tough life this summer. The dogs kept running through them and breaking them off. I noticed a week or so ago that they were finally getting some buds on them, then I kind of forgot about them. For some reason, I happened to look out the window this evening and wondered what the spot of color was at the edge of the flower bed, so I grabbed my camera and went out to investigate. It was the best surprise that I have ever gotten! A huge beautiful dahlia bloom. It is laying on the ground because I didn't stake it. Hope it survives long enough for me to get a few more pictures.
I tryed a new recipe for dinner tonight. Wish I had remember to take a picture. I made rosemary roasted chicken with onions. Yummmmmm! I also fixed fresh broccoli and cauliflower with an onion cream sauce, and boiled potatoes.
After dinner, I went out to plant some tulips. Rather than just stick them in wherever, I took the potato fork and dug up everything in a three by four foot area. I got a bucket full of mostly iris. I planted all the tulips in one big group. Hope they come up. The dogs had to help me plant them. I hope they don't decide to dig them all up!
Then I went downstairs and finished the top I was working on for my granddaughter, and cut out another one. Got the yoke stitched together, and the front gathered and stitched. Hope I can finish it tomorrow. I feel like I was pretty productive today. Not having to deal with allergies all day really helps. Here's to a great weekend!
I went out early this morning with my camera because the dogs weren't around, and I wanted to explore the white streak in the wood pile. It had rained last night, and most of the logs are wet, but there was this one streak that was dry. But instead of adding interest to the photo, I think it just distracts from the diagonal line between the two shapes. All the grass clippings are also a distraction.
I did a lot of paperwork today, and took care of some shopping. I have several birthdays and a wedding coming up soon, and I got a book ordered for Xmas, too. I also checked oil and tire pressure in the tires on my car, and cleaned the inside of the front windshield. I got one of those new things that they advertize on TV, but I bought mine at Wal-Mart. It really doesn't make it easy to reach into the deep corners. Then I took the bonnet off and used it to wipe the dust off the dash and instrument panel. That worked good, too. No streaks. I won't know for sure how clean the windshield is until the next cool morning. But I'm hopeful. I hate a dirty windshield. May give it a try on some of my big mirrors and windows that are hard to reach. I'll keep you posted.
I want to finish making a top for my granddaughter tonight. I order some new quilt fabric today, so I'm going to have to start being more creative.
It was so nice outside today, and I was home for a change, so I went outside with my camera. Usually the dogs are so wild that I can't get good shots of them, but today I sat down on the grass and waited until the silliness wore off and was able to get some nice shots. This is Paya.
Went back out with my camera this evening, too. This is one of the mums I planted last week. I love the colors.
It's back to work tomorrow. I was lazy today. Played with my camera, uploaded some pictures, paid some bills, etc. Think I'll go watch a little TV until bedtime. Toodles!
I had to take some more photos of my petunias. These are in a hanging basket on my back porch. They look so much more dramatic with the watercolor filter applied.
The pink one in the birdbath still looks pretty good, too, especially when edited to look like a watercolor painting.
The wagon out in front of the house is suffering from serious neglect, but I rather like the wild look. All the vines, etc. have come up as volunteers.
You can tell by the walnut tree that summer is almost over. Most of the leaves have fallen off already and the nuts are starting to fall. This tree, in our yard, is loaded with nuts this year. Plenty of food for the squirrels. The nuts should be really good, too, since we had plenty of rain.
It was late this evening when I went outside with my camera. The sun was already getting low in the sky. Our sycamore trees had a lot of these seed pods on them this year. They are really weird looking.
I made chicken enchiladas for dinner tonight. Yum, yum. It is one of my favorite chicken dishes. We still have some fresh green beans from our pole beans, and a few tomatoes. I ate an apple for dessert, but it wasn't as good as I expected. I've got to remember to look for some locally grown fresh apples from this season. We should have planted an apple tree a long time ago, but we didn't want to have to spray it, etc. Have to see what I can find at the store.
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