Skywatch Friday - Season 4 Episode 25

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Photograph of a Frank Lloyd Wright building, Child of the Sun Visitors Center, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, December 2009.

Happy New Year!

12/30/2009 Outdoor Wednesday #51

Happy New Year from our house to your house.


John, my husband, and I were in Florida recently and decided to visit Florida Southern College, Lakeland http://www.flsouthern.edu/. Scroll down the page and then click on Frank Lloyd Wright. While on our own self guided tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, I couldn't help but notice the fluorescent lighting which is posted below.

Photograph One: Fluorescent lighting, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, December 2009.

Photograph Two: Fluorescent lighting, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, December, 2009.

Photograph Three: Fluorescent lighting, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, December, 2009.

Photograph Four: Fluorescent lighting, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, December 2009.

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I would like to thank Susan for being our hostess.

15 Most Beautiful Christmas Trees

Saturday night my husband, another couple and I went out searching in the neighborhood for spectacular Christmas lights. However, nothing we saw could beat what has been published here: http://peachygreen.com/going-green/peachy/15-most-beautiful-christmas-trees-in-the-world.

12/23/2009 Outdoor Wednesday #50

Photograph of doorway decorated for the holidays, St. Augustine, Florida, December 2009.

Photograph of peace doves, stained glass windows and wooden shingles placed on house differently. Image location: St. Augustine, Florida, December 2009.

This photograph was taken while visiting St. Augustine, Florida, in December 2009. Notice the columns, the pale yellow walls and curved sidewalk.

Photograph of Colonial Spanish Quarter, St. Augustine, Florida, December 2009.

Can you believe that there are only two more shopping days until Christmas? We have the tree decorated, the wreath hung on the front door and some cookies baked. Tomorrow I am hoping to make some fudge. Happy Holidays from our house to yours.

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Skywatch Friday Season 4, Episode 23

Photograph, Sunrise, Lake Michigan, 2009.
All Rights Reserved.


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I would like to thank the skywatch team who are: Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy,
Louise and Sylvia.

Thematic Photograph - 80 - Abstract

I have been looking at the world as abstract scenes for as long as I can remember. I like to take some ordinary idea and then give it a twist. For this particular image, I turned a garbage can upside down to use for the background. Notice how the edges of the rose are black and curled. Each red petal looks like a vein in a person's hand. And so tomorrow what abstract scene will I see? Only time will tell.

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Thank you Carmi for being the host.

12/16/2009 Outdoor Wednesday #49

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."
...Henry David Thoreau



Window, St. Augustine, Florida.

Window #2, St. Augustine, Florida.

Window #3, St. Augustine, Florida.

My husband and I visited Florida for about eight days in December 2009. St. Augustine is my favorite shooting spot in Florida. The oldest building in St. Augustine provided this window image. Notice the torn curtains, the reflections, and the view from outside looking inside. Happy Holidays!

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Thank you Susan for being our hostess.

Skywatch Friday Season 4 Episode 22

Click here to view photographs of the skies from all over the world http://skyley.blogspot.com/2009/11/skywatch-friday-season-4-episode-22.html.

Skywatch is hosted by Klaus with the help of Sandy, Ivar, Wren, Sylvia, Louise and Fishing Guy. I would like to personally thank each of our hosts for taking time out to do all this extra work each week to make this site possible.

Photograph of Lake Michigan before my husband, John, and I took a trip to Florida.

Ok here we are up in the friendly skies.

In St. Augustine I found this iron rail with sky as background. It is like looking

through a pair of glasses.

12/02/2009 Outdoor Wednesday - #47

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Thank you Susan for being our hostess.

Photograph of aftermath of sea water on sand.

Photograph of patterns in the sand.

Photograph of more patterns on sand. Background shows the very cloudy day and Lake Michigan.

Lake Michigan waves rolling in and out from shoreline. Notice more patterns in the sand.

On a very cloudy day, I went to Lake Michigan for a photographic shoot. I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked down and saw the aftermath of rainwater on sand. This is amazing!

Todays Flowers #68

These purple mums were in three bushel baskets in front of our house for Autumn. Luckily, I took this picture before the cold weather came. This coming week, all three plants need to be tossed in the garage. I am sad to see such lovely flowers go. Instead, I should look forward to the next season which is usually a cold, snowy winter. Sometimes, winter can look like fairy land.

Pink Saturday - November 28, 2009

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for being our hostess.

These lovely Pink berries are hanging around in front of this unpainted fence.

Skywatch Friday - Season 4 Episode 20

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Photograph: Lake Michigan sunrise.

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Thematic Photographic - # 77 Buildings

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Buildings

Corn Crib, Saybrook, CT

Photograph by Joyce Meyer, copyright 2009.

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11/25/2009 Outdoor Wednesday #46

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Wreaths on church doors photograph #1.

Wreaths on church doors photograph #2.

Gilson Park, Wilmette, IL.

Pink Saturday - November 21, 2009

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"Ginger and cinnamon fill the air

A patchwork of leaves lay everywhere

Cold, clean mornings and an indigo dawn

Crystal frost on the emerald lawn

Golden apple cider and delicious pumpkin pie

These are the things I love at Autumn time."

...Sabrina Bytheway

Found in Quote Reference Book One with CD Rom

@2004 by DieCuts with a View, 2250 N. University Parkway #4861, Provo, UT 84604. All rights reserved.

Thematic Photographic #76 - Orange

Let me see. Do I have any orange images in stock? The answer is no. When I was out and about, I discovered this on a fence at Central Street Elementary School, Wilmette, Illinois.

Detail, Running Fence, Central Street Elementary School,
Wilmette, Illinois-November, 2009.

This year Central Street Elementary School Grades One through Four explored the work of http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/rf.shtml.

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Skywatch Friday - Season 4 Episode 19

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Sunrise at Lake Michigan, Chicagoland Area, 2009.
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11/18/2009 Outdoor Wednesday #45

"Compare the serene and simple splendor of a rose in bloom with the tensions and restlessness of your life. The rose has a gift that you lack; it is perfectly content to be itself. It has not been programmed from birth, as you have been, to be dissatisfied with itself, so it has not the slightest urge to be anything other than it is. That is why it possesses the artless grace and absence of inner conflict that among humans is only found in little children and mystics."

.....Anthony DeMello, THE WAY TO LOVE

Photograph of a single rose taken on our backyard cement patio.

I was trying to obtain an unusual scratched background so I placed a single rose on a garbage can turned upside down.

A single rose growing in our garden. I cropped photograph to show only petals.

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Quote by Muriel Rukeyser

"Pay attention to what
they tell you to forget."
...Muriel Rukeyser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Rukeyser

Quote by Thich Nhat Hanh

"When we touch peace everything becomes real."
—Thich Nhat Hanh

Pink Saturday - November 14, 2009

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This week I am ready to take on the weekly challenge of recommending a site that I haven't visited before. Drum roll please. Go to http://maiasfotos.blogspot.com/ and behold the Pink Dahlias. Maiat has a wonderful knack at doing macro photography of flowers.

Oh my goodness. I can't believe that I ate the whole thing. I can't remember if I ate it for breakfast then lunch and finally dinner. Must have a bit of youngtimers. Oh my...chocolate is the best balanced diet yet. Does this mean there are no calories in this here candy bar? YEA!

FYI: Just in case you are interested in tasting this delicious chocolate bar here is the website to go to: www.bloomsberry.com.