Better late...

Here are some of the photos I've taken in the last two weeks...

ABAA - Blanks

I didn't think I would get this weeks challenge done for the Awfully Big Art Adventure - I was growing impatient waiting for inspiration.  

But then this was in my head:

The challenge was to alter a "blank".  Essentially a unadorned cardstock something.  

I choose a 6 X 6 empty box I had waiting for lightning to strike.  

Ka-pow!  The cure for the winter blues!

Pictures from around the house...

Today's weather was wiggy, but during the brief moment the sun was out, I took the opportunity to take some pictures:

Angus and Cactus sharing a little lovin.  They love being outside together.

...Waiting for spring...

He sure does love his beef knuckle.

Little dog and Big dog foot prints in the mud.

Flower Day

So, after another week at sea, and a duty Saturday, today is a spring Sunday. After a delicious breakfast at ihop, we decided to get our gardens in gear. I was getting frustrated with spring sprung all over the place and nothing but dirt and weeds outside my window. So off to McDonalds Nursery we went. Let just say we needed two carts to get out of there. But I got my herbs, flowers and such. Then on the way home we stopped at Home Depot to get some dirt and got a couple of more plants. A beautiful Boston Fern to take the place of the bird feeder for the summer, and I got some azaleas for the back yard. Lots of perennials. Now that we have the porch railing up the plants should be more resilliant... no canine piggies stomping them into the ground.

I was messing around with my camera last week, trying my hand at some Macro. It is more difficult to get the focus clear than I thought it would be! I was using the lens T got me for my birthday. Here's what I managed to produce:

Plus a couple fun ones of the meat-heads:

Hopefully the grass will start to grow back in - after the drought last year and the dogs loosing their damn minds every time someone walks by, it's been difficult to get it to grow. I think maybe we should just concrete the whole thing. Low maintenance!

Photographising

Took advantage of a fantastic afternoon and went over to the Norfolk Botanical Gardens and fired off a few shots. I was very pleased to see that I was not the only one that had such a great idea - saw at least 4 other people also taking photos. Here are a few of my favorites - you can see more of them on flickr. (link to the right)