scenic sunday

nurenburg canal

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my only 'q'

it's time for martha's A-Z Photo Challenge. and i have one 'Q'...

meet quincy...here he is at nearly 8 weeks and 2 1/2 lbs when i brought him home.

he is very much our child...have to watch him all the time, he doesn't mind and constantly getting into something he's not suppose to. lol

quincy is very food motivated...here hubby is teasing him, getting him to stand up and walk. he does this a lot if food is involved. i have yet to figure out how to get him to do this on command.

quincy is now 9 1/2 months old and weighs about 15 pounds....my lil fur baby. :) i love the way he cocks his head to the side when we talk to him.

check out other 'q's here and even post your own!

macro monday

yes, i know he's creepy....but you have to admire his colors and design. our Creator is an awesome artist! to post or view other macro shots, check out Lisa's Chaos.

real blogs/real people, awards and tagged

betty of a corgi in southern california has bestowed on me the following:

a big surpise as i do not consider myself a writer, and actually, if you follow my journal at all, you know i'm not very loquacious...but maybe a picture IS worth a thousand words?? :)
so...about the award...

This is an award for those that write about real things, not necessarily on every entry, but those who share information about themselves or where they live, what is happening in their area or in the world. What a wonderful way to give some recognition and appreciation to those who write and share a bit of their lives with us. This award is for sharing so be sure to pass it on to other people.
Here are the rules:
1. Please put the logo on your journal - Real Blogs/Real People.
2. Place a link from the person, from whom you received the award.
3. Nominate as many as you want (2-10, with 7 being ideal).
4. Put the links of those on your journal.
5. Leave a comment on their journal to let them know.
6. Put the award on your sidebar, if you want.

and i would like to give this award to:

If My People
kbear's heart 2
Monica's Mindless Mumblings


sheria of theexaminedlife honored me with the creative spirit award. while i love taking pix and sharing them here, i am amazed that others seemingly enjoy them too...so thanks! :)


THE RULES:
1. Choose 5 blogs you consider deserving of this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and contribution to the blogging community, regardless of the language.
2. Each award should have the name of the author and a link to his/her blog to be visited by everyone.
3. Each award winner should show the award and put the name and link to the blog that presented him/her with the award.
4. The award winner and the one who has given the award should show the Arte y Pico blog so everyone will know the origin of this award. Translated, it means "the peak of art." (Actually, that's a pretty loose translation but close enough.)
5. Show these rules.

there are so many wonderful photography blogs out there that i've really enjoyed, but here are a few of my faves....

Jeannette'snewtravels
Lisa's Chaos
NancyLuvsPix
The Rocky Mountain Retreat
Julies Photo Journey


from martha comes the keepin' close award...translated means blogging brings and keeps us close...or something like that. :) and we do develop friendships and a closeness here that i find special and pretty cool.

i would like to share this one with:

linda of My Thotful Spot
linda of Finding Footprints in the Sand
helen of myeverydaylife
betty of a corgi in southern california

Dorothy of Counting My Blessings tagged me to tell 6 more things about me...i really had to do some thinking here after listing 6 things here , but here goes....

1) i'm a christian, conservative southern gal through and through.

2) evidently i have a real southern accent (can't understand that as i live in NORTH alabama!)...when visiting other states, all i have to do is speak and more than once, someone pipes up with 'you aren't from around here!!'

3) i love photography (you didn't know that, now did you??) and have since i was a kid, but due to the cost of film and developing (especially as a young family with little extra monies) it wasn't until i got my 1st digital camera a few years ago that my passion exploded. i will take hundreds of pix within a day when visiting new places.

4) i was married for 20 years the first go round...have 2 beautiful children, (and now 3 grandchildren). we moved 14 times in those years, all but 2 moves were in the state of alabama. did live one year in central florida, and one year in sw kansas. no...he wasn't in the military...he just liked change.

5) i was born in cleveland, ohio, we moved to chicago, illinois, and then to springfield. missouri, before making it back south were my folks are from. so with the 2 moves to kansas and florida, i've lived in 6 states in my 50 years.

6) if i ever win a lot of money, after helping my children and giving to missions, i would travel, travel, travel! so much to see and experience yet!


now...if you haven't done this yet and would like to share a bit about yourself, jump right in and link back to let me know! :)

scenic sunday

i'm still sharing pix taken from our trip to colorado late summer. such beautiful country! this one is from the rocky mountain national park.

stop by Scenic Sunday to participate and/or view more scenic pix!

camera critters

this lil guy was quite fun to watch scurrying around in the sand and quite easy to photograph. i can't tell you how long i've sat with camera posed just waiting for one of these guys to poke their heads back out of the hole i'd seen them duck in. :) to post your own critter or just veiw others...check out Camera Critters Meme.

skywatch

click Skywatch: Skywatch Friday No. 19 to view or post beautiful skies. :)

black and white macro

it's macro monday with Lisa. check out all the macro shots and enter your own.

scenic sunday

estes park, colorado, gateway to rocky mountain national park, september 2008

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camera critters

hubby and i drove to colorado this past september taking our time on the way to stop and see the sights, take pix, enjoying our beautiful country. we stopped at a pretty state park somewhere in colorado and were delighted by this lil community. as you can see, they didn't mind posing. or... maybe they were just curious.

i can almost imagine them asking one another if those two legged creatures pointing that black shiny thing at them were safe.

on alert....investigating further

all's well, able to relax now.

check out and show off your Camera Critters!

rrc - halves

this challenge was suggested by Nancy, "of Nancy Luvs Pix....Two Halves Don't Make a Whole. Nancy explains the concept thus: Photograph two different shots of the same type of thing (like a tree). Crop out half of each and make two separate photos. Put them side by side, or one on top of the other...so that they look ALMOST like one photo...but not quite. It sounds more complicated than it needs to be. It could be really fun and who knows what you could come up with here!"

this was actually more difficult than i had thought when i signed up for this assignment....i even considered backing out, but after several attempts with different pix, i finally came up with this. thanks nancy for a fun and interesting challenge! :) to see what other robins have come up with, click here.

finding 'p'

Menagerie: A-Z Photo Challenge



preening - oklahoma zoo

peacock - oklahoma city zoo

more peacocks....gulf shores zoo

pelican

perched

today is the due date for the letter 'p' . to join martha and the gang, click here!

skywatch

Skywatch: Skywatch Friday No. 18

rows

this weeks thematic theme is rows..."basically anything that lines up." this was a lot of fun...i didn't realize i had so many pix of 'rows'. hope you enjoy them.

ever wonder what happens to all of those old soda machines?? i found these stacked along side a railroad track in guntersville, al.

guntersville state park lodge.

joe wheeler state park marina

gulf shores, alabama

huntsville botanical gardens

and i had to force myself to stop. join in this week's thematic photographic theme here.

camera critters

on a recent visit to the zoo, i was watching the patas monkey's on their island when movement caught my eye in the water below....

i like the color of his eyes, and i find his ears amazing. as i was looking at the lily pads below the bridge, i saw several lil guys resting.

i always did wanna photograph a frog on a lily pad....strange, huh?? :)

show us some of your camera critters and link back to Camera Critters.

here's looking at ya...

this is an old photo, but one of my favorite bee pix...i love the way he's looking at me. to join in macro mondays, check out Lisa's Chaos.