Ice Storm

View of my car through ice on my storm door

Looking out my kitchen window

I wonder, "Will it come back in the spring?"

Same door, different time of day

patterns

Hm, my swing isn't inviting me to sit there right now. 

This photo and the next two were taken on a day that rained most of the day; then it snowed; then we had sleet.

my oak tree

This winter has provided me with ample opportunities for taking aim with my camera.  It's exciting for me to share my renewed interest in photography.

Choosing Apricot for Project 64



In the Mix: Apricot Button



Apricot Smiley Faces

Pooh's Apricot Paw

Pooh Holding Reign 

I read in one of the blogs that more than one photo can be submitted, but only one can be for that week's color.  So I'm sending all of these, but my entry for apricot is the porcelain dish of buttons. This was a hard color for me because I was limited in my viewing area, being stuck at home without a car.  I was impressed by the group's choices meant to inspire us.  Bravo, ladies!

Playing with Light and Shadows

After visiting several photography blogs that I enjoyed yesterday, I decided to try my hand at playing.  When I was a kid, I did that easily without thinking about it.  I just did it!  It's sad that I have to ponder so heavily now before doing an acitivity that once was as natural as breathing.  I'm certainly no expert, but I'm satisfied with my results.   Thank you, Lord, for the winter sunlight and snow. 

Being Reading Deprived

Reading deprivation is described in The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron as a tool for "Recovering a Sense of Integrity" (chapter title in the book).  The goal: not to read for an entire week!  Result expectation: to launch participants into gainful soul-searching and integration of new self-awareness.   Personally, I exempted reading my Bible and reading my daily prayers.   It turned out that now I'm wonderinf if there's such a thing as being addicted to reading.  Not that I got the shakes as in DT's or got to the point of feeling crazy with the lack of pleasure reading.  No, but I did find myself unable to reach the land of Nod for my restorative slumber.  The week-long deprivation, of languishing with a book and sleep, began on Monday, January 10, 2011.  Each night my ability to achieve the presence of Morpheus deteriorated.  Last night, thinking, "I'm more than half way to being able to read again!  I ought to be able to lie down and go right to sleep." Ha, not so!  After the clock on my bookshelf radiated the time, just past 2:00 a.m., I rose, ate some yogurt, thinking that maybe I needed a milk product to nourish the slumber state.  A few more minutes pass by- tick, tick, tick. Consequently, I surrendered to my need to read.  As a result, I read for a few minutes, turned off the light and welcomed Mrs. Sandman.

January, 2011

Having wandered through some of the blogs I follow, I received an inspiration from "Come Sit by My Fire."

Relyn displayed photos of animals and other things of which she'd been enamored.  This must be the synchronicity my friends had related in past conversations.  I kind of knew, but not quite, because I'd never experienced this phenomenon.  Now I'm running into articles, blogs, past memories that all point to this: "Take photos every day and every place, Norma.  Trust me, that's what you should be doing!  Remember when you were a kid and had a Kodak brownie?  You always had your camera.  Your sweet momma shrieked one day at you, 'Don't take another photo of me in my blankety-blank robe!'  And...of course, you did!" 

 So, here's my second goal, maybe it goes along with my first goal of having  TRUST as my word for 2011.  Now it's also that I trust and I am going to keep my camera at my side and "snap shots"  wherever I go.
Wish me fortuity in my endeavors of persevering in photographing and trusting God in His plan for me.