Harry Potter

May 31, 2015
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Well I made it through the first month...only 11 left to go!  Today a cellphone shot of what I did most of the day...Harry Potter marathon...

Yup...that's all I got..but I have had a fabulous "never got dressed watched movies all day" kind of day!

A Beautiful Day...

May 30, 2015
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So today was the day I chose to be my "A Day In The Life" project for my photography class.

 
 

A Great Day!

May 29, 2015
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Such a fun Henry Day!!!  Today we played with the vintage Sesame Street apartment house and Sesame Street Clubhouse that our kids loved that I found on E-Bay.  Did Henry like it?  He did...

Then, since it was a hot day, we headed out to the sprinkler.  SO MUCH FUN!

Then Papa said he had something cool...

It was such a great day...

Vintage Grapefruit Wine

May 26, 2015

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We have been holding on to this wine since 2005 when Jeff and Karen lived in Florida and we went to a grapefruit winery. Yes...grapefruit.  I thought I liked it then.  The best than can be said for it is that drinking it was better than throwing it out...but not by much!  

Happy Memorial Day!

May 25, 2015
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Jay, Megan and Henry came over this morning to pick up some more plants and for a visit.  We got Henry a pinwheel because my folks, the first Mimi and Poppa, would get them for our kids and it was a nice memory for me.  It's such a grandparent thing.  We had a really nice visit.  I might have taken a few pictures...

This is not technically a good picture, but I love it nonetheless...

Sharing some peanuts with Mommy...

 And for the FIRST time, Henry rode is 4-wheeler with great joy!

Resilience...

May 24, 2015
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In the fall I tip my pots over so they don't fill with water, freeze, and crack!  This year when I finally got around to cleaning out the flower beds at camp and refilling my pots, I found this pot, full of mint that refused to be denied!  I pulled it out of the drainage hole in the bottom, flipped the dirt ball over, and stuck it back in.  It looked sad...but I know it will come back!  Another minty picture later in the summer.

A Picture Perfect Day

May 16, 2015

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Well...a bit out of order.  I was too busy having a great day to remember to post in order!  I called Meredith to see if she wanted to come out and play...I was at the Lilac Festival and since she had a new camera to play with we made a plan to take some pictures.  Alas there was no parking available so she picked me up and we headed to Mt. Hope Cemetery, a gorgeous photo spot.   

So much beautiful statuary...the angels are especially beautiful.  We had a wonderful time and later met up with Jim for lunch at The Distillery.  A wonderful day!

Wow!

May 23, 2015

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Part 3 of our assignment this week was to wow our instructors.  I don't know if I did that...but I wowed myself!  I love this!  The airplane and the bird just happened along at the perfect time.  Wow...

Framed

May 22, 2015

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My assignment for this week was:

• 01.Submit an image using either backlighting, silhouette, or dramatic light.
• 02.Submit an image using either leading lines, framing or negative space.
• 03.Impress us! Submit an image showing off some of the skills you have learned over the past five weeks.

This is my image showing framing...the chapel at Mt. Hope Cemetary.

This is my image showing a silhouette, the Garden Pavilion at Genesee Country Village.

Decaffeinated

May 21, 2015
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That's the only reason I can figure WHY I walked around the office (although alone...) with one sandal and one slipper for about an hour.  Yikes!

Shadows of Nikon

May 20, 2015
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Working 11 hour days 3 days a week gives me little time for pictures...this is a lame "what am I going to take a picture of today.  I'll try to NOT do this again!

Baby Robins

May 19, 2015

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Holland, my teammate, found a next of baby robins at work.  So sweet!

Wink!

May 18, 2015
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Can you wink, Henry?

"Mimi...where's my fwame?"

Wait For The Click!

May 17, 2015

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This morning we treked down to Perry, NY to visit Jay, Megan and Henry and have breakfast.  We had a wonderful time and were treated to bacon quiche, bagels, and the first strawberries of the year...all yummy!  The Young Prince was quite cooperative with Mimi's picture taking- Mommy suggested he "wait for the click" before looking at Mimi's camera.  Yay!  I got some adorable ones!

Ice Cream and 2-year-olds...

May 15, 2015
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Gosh...photography is hard enough without adding in the 2-year-old factor.  I had a plan for setting up an ice cream sundae photo shoot with Henry.  I envisioned him sitting at a little table with a bowl of pristine vanilla ice cream, individual dishes of sprinkles, peanuts, sauces, a can of whipped cream, cherries...it was glorious.

Well Henry was not on board with the plan.  Not at all.  Can you sit here and have some ice cream?  "No..."  Do you want some sprinkles?  "No..."  Do you want some M&M's on your ice cream?  "No..."

:::sigh:::












Okay, we reevaluate the plan.  How about a sugar cone, vanilla ice cream, dish of sprinkles, dip.  I took 74 pictures.  A couple were in focus... (!) but of course they were not the ones I loved.

Oh well, maybe next summer...