Day Three Hundred Thirty Five 2012

Goodbye, November, it was nice knowin’ ya.
happy T.G.I.F., y’all!

Day Ninety Three 2012

Solaris Color Setting on Cell Phone Camera

Day Two Hundred Sixty Four 2011

 

"The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living."

~Russian Proverb Yellow leaf in Solaris color setting on my cell phone camera.  (P.S. This is my 1000th post.)

Day Two Hundred Twenty Two 2011

In the mood for some random shots taken with my trusty cell phone camera in the Solaris color setting. Happy Middle Of The Week, everyone!

Day One Hundred Nineteen 2011

My family enjoyed our special annual roast tonight in our back yard when we all get together and incinerate hot dogs and marshmallows and stuff ourselves with s'mores and Doritos and fried Easter Peeps and such and laugh and talk and just have a good old time being us and disturbing the whole neighborhood until midnight. At least we didn't set off any fireworks. That's coming in July, of course. I took this picture with my cell phone camera in the Solaris color setting. Looks like a freaky face. We had a good time. Let's do it all over again next year, OK?

Day Seventy Two 2011

"I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves."
~~ Robertson Davies

I am the only person on Planet Earth who detests daylight savings time. Don't get me wrong. I don't begrudge anyone their "extra" hour of daylight at the end of the day during spring and summer. The time change--"losing" that hour--messes with my internal clock. By the time I'm adjusted to it, fall will be here and I'll get back to my normal. I love clocks, and we have many all over the house, so this year I insisted that my DST-loving husband be in charge of moving all the clocks forward, since he adores this time change. And in the fall, I will gladly move them back again. It's all so ridiculous when you think about it. So I'm just not going to think about it. Until November.

Day Sixty Nine 2011

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant."

~Anne Bradstreet

Day Sixty Eight 2011

A little sunshine on a gray rainy day--cell phone camera pic in Solaris color setting.

Day Fifty One 2011

We had to scrap our plans to take the Grandpeeps roller skating again today since their parents came back from their trip earlier than we expected. Daughter Kelly and I took granddaughter Shelby for a quick trip to Dolce Cafe. Shelby had never been there before. She got some hot chocolate and loved it. Snapped this pic of her with my cell phone camera in the Solaris color setting. Isn't that the look of love? Dolce Cafe does have very tasty drinks. Nice way to end our weekend together. Now, look out, here comes Monday.

Day Forty Eight 2011

Having some fun with perspective and my kitty cat Buddy, I took this picture with my cell phone camera set on the Solaris color setting and using my fish eye lens for cell phone camera. Pretty funky. Hope you found a way to amuse yourself today, too.

Day Thirty One 2011

Monday sky in shades of gray taken in the Solaris color setting with my cell phone camera. A good day to be inside, doing laundry. Now the rain has come. Can the snow be far behind?

Day Twenty Five 2011

My picture for the day is grandson Elijah in the Solaris color setting on my cell phone camera. He was laying on the couch watching TV this afternoon after school and didn't even flinch when I stuck my camera in his face. I guess he's finally getting used to it (or resigned maybe). There wasn't much light in the room, which made for some interesting shadows. I like the Solaris setting. Wish I had it on my regular camera.

Day Two Hundred Ninety Two 2010

They All Fall Down

Taking pics of fallen leaves with my cell phone camera (Solaris color setting) helped pass the time while I waited for Shelby after school this afternoon. A few of our neighbors have already raked their fallen leaves into big piles by the roadside.

Day Two Hundred Eighty Seven 2010

"I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air." ~~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Picture Postcards (In Solaris) From 'The 'Side' (Mom's Place)

Family gatherings for lunch at my mom's place is always fun. We did manage to go outside to soak up some of that brilliant autumn sunshine and enjoy the roses still blooming in the garden and say hello to their resident kitty. We call him 'Persian', but Elijah calls him 'Butter'. We ended up at Jane's house to watch 'A Hard Day's Night' and eat candy corn. Not too shabby, eh? Good time autumn days.

Day Two Hundred Seventy Seven 2010

Gnarly

Found this most gnarly pumpkin at Wal-Mart today, so of course I had to have it. And of course I had to take its picture with my cell camera in the Solaris color setting (which seems to make everything a little gnarlier). Wonder if it would make a good Jack O Lantern? Stay tuned.

Day Two Hundred Seventy Four 2010

OCTOBER!

October has always been and will forever be my favorite month of the year. Sunshine in my face, a deep blue sky I could swim in, a cool breeze blowing, temperature in the low seventies. Plus, it's TGIF! It doesn't get any better than this. I snapped this sunshine picture with my cell camera in the Solaris color setting. Welcome, October! Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!

Day Two Hundred Seventy Two 2010

Autumn Sky In Solaris

Sky of blue, trees of green. Today was Autumn Day perfection. The Maple tree in my backyard is starting to turn. Days like these go by way too fast. Grab them while you can get them!

Day Two Hundred Sixty Eight 2010

Pumpkin Time!

For me, Autumn is the most wonderful time of the year--pumpkins and gourds, scarecrows and pumpkin people, Indian corn, candy corn, and leaves turning their true colors.

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"Back into your garden-beds!

Here come the holidays!

And woe to the golden pumpkin-heads

Attracting too much praise.

Hide behind the hoe, the plow,

Cling fast to the vine!

Those who come to praise you now

Will soon sit down to dine."

~~ Grace Cornell Tall

To Pumpkins at Pumpkin Time

Day Two Hundred Fifty Five 2010

Buddy, Bee, Beans

Slow day at my house in Solaris.

Have a happy week, everyone!

Day Two Hundred Forty One 2010

Random Sunday

Granddaughter Shelby looks like the girl in Willy Wonka who ate the super blueberry candy. I was showing her my new lens and flash filters. She thought it was pretty cool.

Cream City Ice Cream Shop is always a nice treat any day of the week.

"I am Iron Man!"

The Iron Man robot belongs to grandson Elijah, but Grandpa Neil had tons of fun with it this afternoon, loading the missiles he fires from his shoulder armour (or some such).

Elijah works the robot with the remote control. Iron Man walks and talks and sometimes falls over backwards for no reason at all. I don't think he's supposed to do that, but it's funny when he does.

He's pretty scary when he's coming at you. This is Iron Man in the Solaris color setting.

He was shooting missiles at me while I took his picture. He is way cool. And yes he actually says I am Iron Man but it's just a regular guy voice--would have been cooler with the Black Sabbath version. Kids today have no clue as to just how fabulous their toys are.

Elijah in Solaris. Come to think of it, he had just as much fun playing with a yardstick this afternoon. It became a sword and he battled monsters. Imagination is everything. Always.