reflections

i love reflections and that is the subject for the current community photo challenge .  you have until september 30th to participate. click on the above link and join the fun! here are my selections...taken this summer at the gulf shores zoo.

macro community photo challenge

the community photo challenge is any  macro shots taken by you and posted by may 15. grab your cameras and join the fun! click link above to leave your link and view other great macro pix.

these dew laden grape leaves caught my attention this morning when walking my pup. i hurried home, got my camera and went back for some photos. these were some of my favorites.

photo challenge g - h - i

meg continues her abc photo challenge and we are up to g - h - i.  the following pix were taken at the huntsville botanical gardens this weekend. 

 

girl

 huntsville botanical gardens water garden

 huntsville botanical gardens landscape

 

 

irises

photo challenge d-e-f

to continue with meg's  photo challenge abc's of my town...all i've been taking lately are pix of spring.  spring in north alabama came early and has been beautiful.  so here we go...

 

duck

dogwood

spring efflorescence...okay...i know that's stretching it. :)  but...it's the pic i wanted to use and meg actually named this one.

 flower feeding

flowers

click link above and join in the fun!

photo challenges

i'm participating in two photo challenges this week.  one hosted by my sis, margaret, the abc's of  your hometown,  and the community photo challenge featuring spring.  check out both sites and join us!

 azalea

 buds

 clover

Community Photo Challenge-RED

This challenge is RED, could be an image more than 95% red or something that is RED as the main subject. Could be a B&W with selective color-Red....

 to see some great 'red' images, check out the latest  community photo challenge .

spring

we have had an early spring....everything is blooming and to date, no frost or hard freeze to kill all of the pretty flowers.  here is a couple of photos from the neighborhood taken this morning.

community photo challenge - still life

the community photo challenge still life...something i've never really attempted.  sounds easy enough, doesn't it?  well...i didn't think so, but once i got started it was really hard to stop. ;)

click on link above to see some really amazing still life pix!

a pleasant surprise

i've almost deserted this blog, only posting occasionally anymore, so it was a pleasant surprise when a sweet blogger friend, jan, honored me a few days ago with this:

this award is given to shine a light and bring some recognition to smaller blogs. i humbly accept this honor and in doing so i'm suppose to post the following rules:

1) If you are tagged, and you want to accept, then create a post on your blog and add the leibster blog pic.

2) Link back to the person who gave you the award and say if you accept.

3) Choose 3-5 of your favorite blogs to tag, link these in your post too and tell the lucky people they have been tagged.

i've followed many wonderful blogs and made some great friends over the past few years, but unfortunately i've lost touch with most of them.  with that being said, there is one blog i follow and i think you'll enjoy her humor and  photography, my sis, margaret of margaret's musings.

please stop by jan's blog...you'll find stories of her family, gardening, faith and photography.

thanks jan!! :)

bloggers community photo challenge - storms

the communityphotochallenge is storms...."We are looking for Storms which includes stormy skies, snow storms, ice storms, lightening storms....also, the after effects of a storm."

this first photo was taken at the alpine visitor center in the rocky mountains, seconds before the rain reached me.  the last 2 were taken just after a rain storm when the sky is often very pretty and dramatic.

rocky mountains

smoky mountains

lake guntersville, alabama

you can participate and check out other entries by clicking the link above.

White

community photo challenge - white 

"This challenge is "White on White" or simply...WHITE."  entry deadline is January 7.  these were taken Christmas day....nw alabama's 1st white Christmas since 1989.