the subject from Junjie1800 is:
”In Your Bowls”
IMPORTANT: I am posting but will be gone until after the first of the year so will miss making comments for some of you until I get back unless we can get online. I’ll try to catch everyone listed before we leave.
Food, I love food
and am willing to try about anything. I can’t say I love it all but if there is food around, I don’t go hungry.
Some Photos:
Goose for the holidays at my daughter’s home in Virginia. It’s a tradition. In the rear corner left, a type of ham brought from Spain and always, any and all other types of goodies, all day, everyday while visiting. Halie and her husband are very good cooks and meals are always events.
In the evenings and anytime we feel like it, we play board games. There is always food on the table that loosens us up to talk and play. We watch our favorite Christmas movies while there too.
Just looking at the above image makes me hungry and the dog is taking note of it as well. Hettie lives in the UK but like any other of our canine friends, she knows where the table of food is. This time, the table was piled high with so much food we almost didn’t know where to begin.
I am a recipe collector. I still love to cook and I guess I will always like to eat. Special foods for the holidays makes the season even more festive.
Lots of people are down on their luck and hungry. The holidays bring the fact more to the forefront. Please remember to share at your local food baskets in your church and in the stores helping to make someone else holidays brighter remembering there could come a time that hungry person might be you.
Happy Christmas,
Month: December 2007
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Weekly Photo Challenge, In Your Bowls
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Merry Christmas 2007 from PhotoGraphics
Merry Christmas Xanga Friends
Glorious Christmas Blessings to All
and may your New Year be filled with His love.
Desktops, poetry and more on my LittleEgypt site, CLICK HERE
Becca aka
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Weekly Photo Challenge, “Undermining Authority”
the subject from Sezwick is:
“Undermining Authority”
I went to the dictionary to discover definition useful for this challenge which in Photo Form is a really hard challenge. The definitions I used are from Dictionary.com.
Undermine …
to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
Authority …
the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine.In all honesty I am not in a position to take photos that fit the specific definition. What I think of is arrests or court room battles, any and all upsetting confrontations.
Dwelling more with “Undermine”, I work with it loosely in my photos, deliberately “Undermining” the color, taking them to the bare bones. This leaves them somewhat interesting and not totally unattractive but more a sketch. I played the authority figure in making the photo choices.
My Photos
Still Life
A Holiday Meal
The Dig
The Local Outdoor Plant Shop
Funeral with the Senior Volunteer Color Guard
I’m not sure this entry covers anything close to what was hoped for but here it is for what it’s worth. I’ve played the game, I’m just not sure how well this time around.
Keep on taking those photos,
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Weekly Photo Challenge, “Up, Up and Away”
the subject from PhotoGraphics is:
”Up, Up and Away”
Most of us on hearing the phrase “Up, Up and Away” think of planes and Superman flying. I use the term loosely for ”grabbing my camera bag and flying out the door” deliberately looking for photo options close to home or to climb into the car headed out for a trip, a few days or weeks. The “Up, Up and Away” is synonymous with discovery of what lies beyond of interest.
My greatest discovery, “no matter where you are in your progression of your lifetime, no matter your location, there is a world filled with things for your consideration. Your world may be larger than the world others may experience but with eyes wide open a small area can provide material for more than a single book, photo opportunities for filling albums and social conditions enough to provide for your mothering instincts or to upset your politics”.
Some Photos from various
“Up, Up and Away’s”
This photo is very close to home, the “Up, Up and Away”, the bird, being about 5 feet from my door. While this Blue Jay nested, I could watch her from my computer, looking out the same door. It was interesting from the nest building to the 5 eggs and finally the hatching. The mailman stopped delivery and our final photos were taken with hard hats on our heads. Blue Jay’s don’t usually build so close to someone’s door AND, I’ll add the pair has not built there again. One season of baby raising with a pair of crazies clicking away was enough in their birdie estimation. Personally, I am greatful for the one season though the mailman may not be.
“Up, Up and Away” to Starbuck’s coffee, situated all around the world and only 2 miles or so from our door. I don’t drink a lot of it but John enjoys a treat now and again.
This is a church picnic with friends held at Lake Isabella county park the ”Up, Up and Away” about 4 miles from our doorstep. The fellowship was special, the food was great and I took a lot of photos.
An evening out at Charlie Baz’l's Restaurant and Karaoke/Sports bar. It is “Up, Up and Away” Southeast of us about 8 miles. If you want to watch sports they have 50 plus television screens set up plus what is needed to sing your heart out. The food isn’t bad and a camera comes in handy.
And you thought Cyprus Trees didn’t grow in Ohio … Here is living proof in my photo of the Knees, they do. This “Up, Up and Away” photo was taken at Spring Grove Cemetery and I have some Cyprus Knee photos from Woodland Mound park also. Both locations about a 40 minute drive from us, one to the South and the other to the Southeast probably two hours between the two.
Indiana has a lot of covered bridges but they are a bit of a rarity in Ohio. This one is “Up, Up and Away” in Ohio and it is about an hour from us to the North East. I love playing with photos of the bridge and there is a wonderful farm just over the bridge and on about a mile or two.
This photo was taken in Indiana at Friendship Flea Market. The Cicada ”Up, Up and Awayed” itself to us, flying in, settling down and I jumped on the situation with both feet and took photos. Friendship is about 2 hours from us and we did a regular “Up, Up and Away” set up there for 8 or 10 years.
Clown camp held East of Columbus, Ohio and maybe “Up, Up and Away” 3-3 1/2 hours from us. It’s a wonderful place for photos and the color is outstanding. Lots of laughs going on in Clown camp and I have been to it several times as both of my sisters are clowns.
“Up, Up and Away” to a retirement party for my brother-in-law held in Rockford, Illinois, 8 or 9 hours from my home. Family and friends helped make the day, all of them gathering there. Dan, the retiree, on the left, John center and my sister Jeanne’s husband Al on the right. They shucked a lot of corn for roasting.
This sunset is “Up, Up and Away” very close to home and it makes a good ending to this entry. Taken from the parking lot of my husbands work about a half hour drive and if I want sunsets, I have to leave home as we are in a small valley and see nothing except overhead sun. We sat and watched, me snapping away, until the sunset was no more, ending perfectly my ”Up, Up and Away” for the day.
Now the term is explained from my point of view and you may want to take advantage of it for yourself.
“Up, Up and Away” and keep on taking those photos,
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Art Rage Challenge, “Love”
The topic for the month of December 2007 is:
”Love”Now hear this: My image depicts “Love” in several ways. It contains two members of my family who I “love” very much. It also has some local scenes we “love” / enjoy viewing or spending time where I “love” / enjoy taking photos of anything from the scene to animals and still life. The image is made up of portions of photos I took, tubed by me (cut out from my photos and finished and saved for use in graphics I build like this one) a project I “love” / enjoy doing . The tubes from my Blues Brother Announcer to the Buzzards and Sheep and the cats and family and recreation spots were made with Paint Shop Pro a software program I “love” and have enjoyed for many an hour. In total I think my “love” expressed is in different degrees but “Love” all the same. SEE THE IMAGE FULL SIZE, CLICK HERE
Keep on taking those photos,
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