Day 130, Ambition

 

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” ~ Salvador Dalí 

I see a theme developing. Wonder if I'll find an appropriate photo/quote combo for tomorrow.

Day 129, Discipline

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” ~ Jim Rohn

Day 128, Crab Apple Tree at Sunset

 

These crab apple trees are currently the prettiest thing in my yard.  Even more so at sunset. 

Day 127, Muddy River

Olmsted Falls Park before the rain came.

Day 126, Rainy Drive

In the movie "Yes Man", the always adorable Zooey Deschanel played a woman who was in a jogging photography club. Today I thought it would be fun to start a riding-in-a-car photography club. Well. I didn't really think it would be fun at first but Jeremy was too busy to stop or slow down for me. Then I realized trying to take a photo on a rainy day while driving at 50mph was actually lots of fun. :) The first picture I took while sitting at the gas station. I was in the car, buckled in so it counts. My rules.

Yeah, I really did start posting three photos of the day.

Day 125, Afternoon Tea Break

Another gorgeous day! I really wish I had time to lounge around outside all day. I think I will schedule myself an early evening tea break as well. :)


And if you like iced tea, I adore the Lipton Cold Brew. It's easy-peasy!

Day 124, Dandelions & Blue Skies

Finally able to go outside! I snapped these at the Margaret Peak Nature Preserve in Eaton Township. I had never been there before but I will certainly go there again, hopefully next time I'll be able to find the trails. :/

Day 123, Around the House

A bedtime story: A beautiful princess was peacefully napping on the couch when around 9:30pm she suddenly woke to notice the show she had been watching was over. She groggily pulled herself up and went to brush her teeth. She was about to take her vitamins and proceed to bed when she remembered she had yet to take a picture for the day. *gasp* If she failed to take a somewhat meaningful photograph before the strike of midnight surely she would be turned into an ogre!  She quickly took a few photos of some of her favorite household items and posted them to her daily photo blog. That was a close one… The end. 

From looking at these two items it occurs to me that I really don't have an easily definable personal style. And my bedtime story teaches me that I'm a giant dork, more so when I’m tired. Goodnight.

Day 122, Milk Abstracts

A few weeks ago I StumbleUpon a video online where they made milk dance and of course I had to try it. :) Here are two of my favorites from the series.

Day 121, Checkmate

I'm not a chess player and neither is Jeremy. I guess the sole reason for our owning this game is so I can photograph it while we discuss what movie we want to watch...I'm thinking Searching for Bobby Fischer.

Day 120, End of April

 

Last day of April! Tomorrow we will see if all those April showers were worth it...

I love the feel of this photo.

Day 119, Buried Treasure

Well, not entirely buried treasure. I came across this little treasure in a wallet I haven't used in a while. What to do, what to do? Should I invest this little chunk of change? Stick it away for a rainy day? We'll see...

Update: I settled on a Heath Blizzard from Dairy Queen. And it was oh so good. :-)

Day 118, Maple Leaves

 

 Please insert a witty comment here. 

I don't know what it is about today but I simply cannot function. Tomorrow will be better. Tomorrow will be better. Tomorrow will be better...

Day 117, More Rain Clouds

 

It feels like there is a Charlie Brown style rain cloud lingering over our heads.  Good grief...

Day 116, Hugs and Kisses Anniversary

 

Today Jeremy and I have been married for nine years!!  That's the hugs and kisses anniversary. Well, it is for us anyways. We make our own rules. :)

 

Pretty!

Day 115, It's Raining, It's Pouring

 

My backyard after a few days of rain. Unfortunately we still have a few more days of rain coming. I have always wanted a swimming pool...

Day 114, Shuffling Cards

Over since the demise of my handy-dandy Olympus camera I have not had a sturdy pocket sized camera. My 3mp LG env3 camera phone isn't horrible in a pinch.

 Since it is just a cell phone photo I'll post two. (This is becoming a habit.)

Day 113, Birds

 Finally, it has stopped raining and I am able to explore the great outdoors, well, at least my backyard.  This bird/photo reminds me a lot of the photo I took for Day 15. I wonder if they are related...

And other one because I can. This is Sammy. And yes. He is as evil as he looks.

Day 112, Dark, Dreary Day

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”    Robert Frost

Today was dark, dreary and cold. I snapped this picture in a hurry because I've still have much to do before I sleep.

Day 111, Coffee Beans

I learned quite a bit with this project. First, drink some coffee before you play with the coffee beans. Second, if you spend a bit of time arranging the coffee beans don't try to blow the dust away. Coffee beans are not that heavy. Third, don't make the same mistake twice by blowing the dust away after arranging the coffee beans a second time. Which really brings us back to the first thing I learned: Drink some coffee before you play with the coffee beans.

Day 110, Ring

I'm back!

Here's what happened: I took the mirror off the wall. Positioned my light stick (?! not sure of the correct name. I think it is supposed to be an under the cabinet light that I have re-purposed) to the side of my ring and gave it a whirl, then Windexed the mirror. I repeated those steps about 17 million times. The above photo I took while resting my twirling hand using the window for back lighting. Afterward, I put the mirror back on the wall about 98% sure my husband won't notice the new scratches. :/

 

After all that work I had to include a photo of my intended subject. 

Day 109, An Early Seedy Dandelion

Spring sprung so soon that this little guy is already going to seed, before most of the other dandelions have begun to bloom.

Note: This is the last photo I took in the year 2010 (well, not the last photo. Just the last for this project.) You will notice that the weather has changed drastically from 2010 to 2011. 2010 had a very early spring while it doesn't seem that 2011 is going to have a spring at all.

Day 108, Lazy Sweets

Enjoying the sunset? Or watching the dogs fight over a stick? Both. She is wonderful at multitasking. :-)

Day 107, Fence

They say good fences make good neighbors. Oh boy, our neighbors are going to hate us...

Day 106, Stormy Spring Day

April showers bring May flowers. 

Day 105, Trivial Pursuit Genus Edition

I have no idea why I even own this game. All it does is make me feel dumb dumber.

If you are wondering the answers are:
Italian, The Dave Clark Five, China, After the Fall, The penguin, and Maryland, My Maryland

Day 104, Cremy's Eye

Such long eyelashes.

Day 103, Fire Wood

Day 102, Bumble Bee

Bumble bee busy pollinating my weeds. Hopefully he'll come back to pollinate my garden in a couple weeks.

Day 101, Crab Apple Flowers

Due to computer issues I'm a bit behind on my posting. Also this and the next few days worth of photos have no processing other then converting from RAW to JPEG.

Day 100, Knob

If I had remembered that today was going to be day 100 I would have tried for something a little more epic.

Day 99, Maple Keys

The "helicopters" are looking green and ready for take off.

Day 98, Baby Chicks

Our lil' farming enterprise now includes 2 cows, 3 pigs, and, our latest addition, 12 baby chicks. Now I just have to come up with 12 names...

Day 97, Salt and Pepper

Day 96, Reed Diffuser

Crisp Pear reed diffuser smells so purty!

Day 95, Sunrise Through the Trees

“With each sunrise, we start anew”

Day 94, All the Pigs

I was trying to limit the number of farm animal photos I use for this project but this was my favorite for the day.

Day 93, Pressure Washing the Barn

This has been a project we would mention about once a week during the warmer months. It finally got done today. Stay tuned for our color selection but don't hold your breathe. If it takes as long to paint as it did to get it ready to paint it could be awhile.

Day 92, Clothes Line

I wonder if I can get a tax credit for line drying my clothes, like all the people that bought energy efficient appliances.

Day 91, This lil' Piggie stayed home...

Our farm is growing. Today we added piggies.