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.

community photo challenge - LIGHTS

the community photo challenge this month is LIGHTS.  it can be related to the holidays, city lights or anything we choose.

 

the first shown here are in a corridor of a lodge in guntersville, al. 

this one was taken while on a business meeting...from the 51st floor of the rio in vegas.  i love the sight of a city all lit up at night!

and of course, i have to include some Christmas lights!!  merry Christmas to everyone!!!

autumn color

i missed the deadline to enter the bloggers community photo challenge but wanted to show the fall colors in north alabama anyway. these were taken at joe wheeler state park in late october.  check out the beautiful entries and vote for your favorite image at

http://communityphotochallenge.blogspot.com/2010/10/community-photo-challenge-autumn.html

community photo challenge

it's been a while since i've participated, but after seeing marie's note on fb, i thought i should check out the current community photo challenge.  This next challenge will be ANYTHING that you want it to be, but it must be something new to you.  i've been experimenting with hdr a little...not sure i'm really getting it right, but i did like the effect.

this is panama city beach, taken last weekend.

check out communityphotochallenge  ...you have until 8/30 to participate.

the colors of autumn

the blogger's community photo challenge is back with the colors of autumn. here are a few from the smokies a couple of weeks ago.


the great smoky mountain railroad out of bryson city was a wonderful way to view the colors.

maggie valley lookout tower

and a little closer to home....on the beautiful tennesse river in florence, al

you can post your own fall pix or check out other participants here. hurry...the last day to post for this challenge is the 15th .

seacrest, florida

hubby and i had a few wonderful days at the beach.....florida's emerald coast....we had a couple of rainy days that were spent going to a movie and shopping, and then a other hours spent soaking up the sun, enjoying the waves and visiting a few parks.

sunflowers

my favorite flowers.... what a delightful surprise when hubby told me there was a huge field of sunflowers right here in n. alabama, just a few miles from my home. reminds me of the year i was in kansas....there were acres and acres of these beautiful flowers and i never tired of looking at them. i hope it's something that will be repeated many summers to come.

late alaphabet finish-x y z

Martha hosted an A-Z photo challenge that completed a few weeks ago. i played along, up until the very end and didn't make the last 3 letters...and i wanted to finish...so better late than never...

X in framework

Yellow

Zebra

thanks, martha, for a fun photo meme!

community photo challenge: photo story

a photo story...."a small group of 3-5 images that either tell a story or relate to each other " is the community photo challenge for this week and starts may 14. mine is the annual alabama jubilee hot air balloon festival in decatur, alabama memorial day weekend.

early morning arrival....

checking wind direction....

setting up and checking equipment....

inflating balloons.....

up, up, up and away....

check out all of the details here....Bloggers Community Photo Challenge

eagles nest

one of my sister's lives on a bluff above a river. she had been telling me that eagles were nesting across from her front yard, so of course i had to go and check it out. the young have hatched, but i didn't get a glimpse of them, though mom and dad were pretty active that day.