A few more photos....

"A Favorite Photo" -  this is from my 30th birthday party...

"Handwriting" - A card from my Grandma G.

"Green"

"Night"  (Rocky is ready to come inside!)

"Where you work" - I took this from the
walking path around the pond behind our building

A few days of photos....

A few self-explanatory photos will have to do for today - the last several days of my February Photo-A-Day Challenge!  It has been SO much fun, and I do upload them to Facebook every day... just don't get them on here in a timely enough manner.  Happy Monday to all!

"Makes You Happy"



"Inside Your Closet"



"Blue"

"Heart"

"Something New"

"Time"

Bliss!

Enjoying my favorite things on a Saturday morning - curled up on the sofa, with a mug of coffee, and some music on Pandora... bliss!   (That's a good title for today's post!) ... love this time of the morning/week.    I'll have to catch up on the past three days' photos for my February photo challenge, but first I have another photo to post:

"Who are these lovely people?" you may be wondering ... well, they are the people that came in the photo frame, because I'm STILL WAITING for some winter 2011 memories!  I'm afraid I may have contributed in holding off our winter weather this year, since it is February 11th and we still haven't seen any real snow.   

You see, this was the first year in many years that I was totally prepared for my child to be out in the snow.  Usually when we have our first big snow of the year, I'm all "Crap, gotta see if I can buy Jace a new pair of snow boots, warm gloves, etc" and the stores have already sold out to all of the GOOD parents who bought them before the weather hit.  But not this year!!  Nope - back in early November I bought Jace some great snow pants, some $20 double layer gloves, and made sure he had everything he would need for sledding.  I even bought him a cool new sled for Christmas.   And we have seen one single dusting of snow this entire winter season.  

So all of you Springfield folks who are happy about our mild winter thus far, you can thank ME! Although I'm watching the forecast, and it looks like we may get some snow on Monday - along with some temps that are well below freezing... Winter may just be making a late appearance this year!

Wednesday's photo this week was "sun"; since it was a chilly and cloudy day, I had to figure something else out - so here was my photo instead:

Sun

I mean, it was somewhat similar to the sun -  it was yellow, made me feel good, and went down (smoothly) around 5pm that night...  :)   Wednesday nights are my weekly happy hour with friends, and I enjoyed a couple greyhounds that night with Brian and one of his good friends and his wife.  A fun evening.

Thursday's photo was "Front Door", so I took a couple of shots that morning, but then had to wait until that evening to get a photo of Rocky in his usual spot.  If he is inside when I leave the house, I can always see him peering out the window, watching me as I go.

Front door

And yesterday's photo was a self portrait -  I used one of the photos I had taken earlier this year with my new camera, and had some fun with it using some applications on my iPhone:

Self portrait

Looking forward to a busy but fun day today, with Jace, Brian and his little boy, Daniel.  I have some house cleaning and errands to do first, so better get going!  Happy Saturday!

Feb 5-7th

Sunday, February 5th  "10 AM"... 

Modern worship service at my church, Schweitzer.  Love the music, and the sanctuary... took this as the blinds went up and the band was playing the final song... a great service.

Monday, February 6th...  "Dinner"  -  Rocko. 
Enough said.

Tuesday, February 7th...  "Button"... I didn't check
today's list before getting dressed this morning.

Actually, a few pairs of my pants require me to use this same fix.  Need to take them to my alterations lady!  Susan has already chastised me for this on my FB post from an hour or so ago, telling me that our mother (who was an excellent seamstress - and homemaker, in general) is probably looking down on me wondering what the heck I'm doing (or not doing!)... Yes, Suz, I know.  But hey, I HAVE learned how to cook before turning 40, but there are some things I'm just going to PAY to have someone else do.  Just need to get them there to have them done!

Already behind...

I did capture my photos for February 3rd and 4th, and even got them posted on FB, since I could do that from my iPhone... but didn't manage to find time to log in and upload them here until this morning.

February 3rd - Hands:

February 4th - A stranger:

Someone enjoying the acoustic
music last night, at the table

next to us... 

This has been fun so far, and some good themes coming up!

Words

February Photo-a-Day Challenge:

Today's theme was "words"... I was thinking about it on the way to work this morning ... I'm a reader, and I love words... was considering a book title, or maybe a quote or Bible verse - I have a couple that are some of my very favorites.  But then I realized that some of my most treasured words have been on my computer monitor for oh, probably the last 6+ years.  Jace was playing around with the label maker in my office back when he was 6 or 7, and made this label for me.  And as far as words go, these are some of the very best, and they're in front of me every day at work.  So what could be better to use for today's photo - absolutely nothing!

Tomorrow's theme - "hands".

My View Today

Feb 1st, Photo-a-Day Challenge:

I enjoyed some girl time with friends Gail and Deania after work today, so that was "my view today"... I also enjoyed a yummy lunch with Brian, and SAT OUTSIDE on the patio, on February 1st - but unfortunately didn't consider taking a photo while I was there - duh!    Tomorrow's photo:  "Words"... stay tuned.