Scavenger Hunt Sunday 3/25

It's Sunday again and here are my submissions for this weeks Scavenger Hunt Sunday. I appreciate all the wonderful feed back from my photo's last week while I was away.  This week I'm home and I'll be visiting all the blogs I didn't visit then, thanks again! 


Our inspiration words this week are
Whimsy, Create, Dust, Seed or Sprout, & Swing or Drop. 
Here are my interpretations for this week, enjoy and thanks so much for visiting and looking at my pictures.

 Whimsy

This is my cousin's Jeanmarie and Hans' yard in Charlotte ( where I spent the long weekend last week) This is a beautiful pond filled with  koi, a lovely bridge with plants and bushes, statues lights, bird houses, stones, it's magical. They are talented couple who did this all by themselves!

Create

Sometimes I create a yummy second dinner, like this vegetable beef soup with a leftover piece of roast and some fresh veggies; this for instance was this Saturday nights dinner.

Dust

The dust builds up on this filter screen pretty regularly and honestly I hate to actually have to show my dust on this blog *cough cough*. I know it's pretty yucky isn't it? 

Seed or Sprout

This is my amaryllis sprout, I took this picture a few weeks ago. It's blooming right now, tall and strong with the most beautiful creamy white blooms {four of them} laced with the lightest blush of pink on each of the blooms. You can see it in full bloom by clicking here.

Swing or Drop

Here's a picture from my file (sorry) of my grandsons left and right relaxing with my son swinging away on the hammock last spring; rough life huh?.


Thanks Ashley!
This is what we'll be doing next week
Clouds

Sun flare

Seven

High Angle

Low Angle

Scavenger Hunt 3/18

I'm afraid that time constraints. a weekend trip to Charlotte North Carolina to celebrate St Patrick's Day left me no other choice but to dip into my files for all of my photo's this week with the exception of vintage.

So here are my interpretations  of the words vintage ,word or quote, nature's own,  people and  photographer's choice.

vintage

This crystal candle holder was something we found in a bunch of junk in a basement in a rental my husband lived in once years ago. The landlord told him he could have it and what a treasure it has turned out to be. It's beautiful isn't it?
quote

This is my first born, his name is Matthew. When I was pregnant I used  go down to the beach and lay on my stomach {digging holes in the sand was the only way, I was rather large, you see} He's always been a sun and beach lover since before he was born!

photographer's choice

I have loved this picture ever since I took it and I knew instantly this would be my photographers choice.  This is my niece playing in the water on the very beach I grew up on. 

natures own

We planted this oak tree years ago when we purchased our house, each of our boys got their own tree to plant. This tree is our son Eric's tree and is particularly meaningful to us since he passed away in 2006, dying in an accident with his older sister Gretchen.

people

You know my niece is just lovin being on top of this people sandwich, the other layers are her brother and her cousins {my three grandsons who are the two bottom layers and #2}

Thanks Ashley for hosting this link up every week, and thanks to everyone for stopping by to check out my set of photo's.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday 3/11

It's Scavenger Hunt Sunday today and I have to say this weeks submissions were so much fun! I wish I had a bit more time to spend on them but it was a busy week.

Thank you Ashley for having this link up. I love that you're giving this novice the opportunity to show my pictures, to stretch my imagination and to think of original way of presenting my subjects.

This week the subjects are water, light, chocolate, animal and crowded....here are my interpretations of the selections.

Water

I know, I know not very original but I had my heart set on a puddle with a bird taking a bath in it or something like that! When that didn't happen I just couldn't come up with anything else so this was all I had.... sorry!

Light

This is the afternoon light reflecting through the front door on to the living room wall.

Chocolate

Yum, one can never have enough chocolate; so why not have a chocolate doughnut and hot chocolate?

Animal

This is my winter robe, meow!

Crowded

Crowded was a bit of a challenge for me since my husband and I live alone and when I think of crowded I automatically think of people. So I had to come up with something else.

 Is there room for another pen or pencil in this holder? Crowded huh?

Next weeks five are

Vintage

Word or Quote

Nature's Own

People

Photographer's Choice

Thanks for taking a look at my pictures this week. 

scavenger hunt sunday 3/4

Well it's Sunday and I've been hard at work trying to come up with five new photo submissions for Scavenger Hunt Sunday.  The subjects this week are routine, music, technology, show me your style & mismatch. Here are my interpretations.
                          Routine

We all have a basic beauty cleanliness routine, yes? 

Music

On a windy day this wind chime sings a beautiful tune!

Technology

Gotta have the best and the newest phone with the most gadgetry!  Then the others seem to stack up around the house, literally.

Show Me Your Style

I would live in these flip flops if the weather in my area permitted it.

Mismatch

I opened up my bathroom closet and my towels were arranged like this; I didn't even have to set this shot up!

Next week:

Water

Light

Chocolate

Animal

Crowded

scavenger hunt sunday 2/26

This is my first time ever joining Scavenger Hunt. I am very excited to join such a talented pool of  people who love photography and photographers. Thank you Ashley for having such a great Sunday link up I'm happy to add my five pictures to the mix this week!

Crossed

These are one of a pair of cross beams in my great room, they also have been known to double as a play gym for my cats- Tarzan , Cheetah and Linus!

A Glimpse

Here's my grandson Xavier as he glimpses at who knows what! He has a beautiful face and a wonderful full head of hair doesn't he?

Handwritten

I picked up my year book from a million years ago, not only is it a gold mine for something handwritten, but I did get more than a few giggles.

Bliss

We recently did a full bath renovation, getting under this every morning is  truly bliss!

Gray

This shot shows the lovely gray of this bird  as compared to the black-white of his own feathers and green of the feeder.

This weeks words are;

Routine
Music
Technology
Show Me Your Style
Mismatch