Day 197...Courtyard Finds

August 04, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Day 197

While visiting Mom today I took a walk around the courtyard at Evergreen...

With the heat, I hadn't been out there in a while.

So many more changes!

Today, I caught just a few "snaps" of some things growing in the gardens there!

Sadly, there really isn't much that's very pretty although they have done a great job

at keeping the potted flowers and plants alive.

Here's just a couple of photos that I liked.

Burned up Butterfly bush... :(

I thought the photo above was a green bean flower but then I

realized it was just right next to the green beans...

there wasn't a label and I didn't see any fruit on the vine to identify,

sooo...

...anyone know what it is?

a little green bean vine

Day 196...Our Birthday Beauty

August 03, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Day 196
Alia turned 5 years old last week!!!

PaPa and I took our little birthday girl out for an evening of dinner, shopping , ice cream and play time!

It was so much fun!

Just look at that smile...:)

It makes me feel all good inside!

Faces of Alia, GiGi's Princess...♥

Not sure what's up with this gorgeous little smirky grin...but I love it! ☺

my beauty

double fisted application of that hot pink lipstick we bought! ☺

deep in thought

I guess it was "strike a pose" time 'cause I got one!

Three generations...Mark and his girls...☺...if only PaPa would smile at the camera...lol

PaPa having fun, playing with Alia and teaching her to use the walkie talkies...

which looked just like iPhones... ☺

Day 195...Mad Dash Moon Shot

August 02, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Day 195

On my way home from photography club meeting the moon looked so beautiful that I just had to try and get a shot....well, I pretty much dropped the ball on remembering my settings for "shooting the moon" and I was alone on the Summit St bridge, not feeling too safe, but wanting to try. It only took one shot for me to remember that I really needed to set up my tripod, which I did have in my trunk but it also only took one lonely car passing by me on that bridge to make me jump back into the safety of my car and head on toward home...

Check out my one and only pic...I think I have some UFO activity going on!...:)

Surely it couldn't be "moon glow glare flare" :)

whew...try saying that five times real fast!!!

Day 194...Cookies With GiGi... :)

August 01, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Day 194

Jax came to spend the night with his GiGi and PaPa!!!

He was a good boy! Ate his dinner! And, he didn't know he was about to get a haircut!

So I gave him a cookie first... :)

after cookie, haircut, bath and playtime...time for a bed time snack...

"hmmm, GiGi, these aren't near as good as those Oreo's"

Day 193...My "Sunny" Morning Misadventures!

July 31, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Day 193

This morning I decided that it would be my last chance for 2012 to get any shots of the Sunflower fields so off I went, Tonganoxie bound,

Sonic Cherry Coke safely in the cup holder!!!

Only one problem......so far...

As I approached downtown KC MO I realized I'd forgotten my step stool... :/

See, the Sunflowers are extra tall this year and if you want to be above them,

it definitely requires having a ladder, of some sort...

OR stand on your car as I saw some people doing and ...

That option was NOT for me!!!

Not knowing what else to do, I remembered Strasser Hardware on SW Blvd

which really was not "on my way,"
but it was the nearest place I could think of to purchase a step stool...
so, I am now the proud owner of

ONE, DAMN HEAVY TO CARRY AROUND A SUNFLOWER FIELD,

STEP STOOL!

Back on the highway again, I was headed West!

Once I arrived I met a gentlemen and his wife who were from Lawrence and wanted to take

MY PICTURE...oh geez, being on the other side of the camera is not my comfort zone!!

But, I happily obliged, he emailed them to me and now

I have a photo memory of me at the fields!

After carrying that new step ladder, for what seemed to be a LONG ways,
out into the field,

I realized it wasn't the scene I wanted....ugh

so, I just hauled that shiny new step stool right back OUT of the field...

only to realize once back at my car, that my cell phone was missing...

OK, retrace steps...trek back into the field, scanning the ground...
YAAAY, cell phone found!

I'm lucky I didn't collapse from the heat.

Perspiration was pouring off of me 'cause you know...

ladies "perspire"...we don't "sweat" ... HA

At this point, red faced, drenched in sweat (yes, sweat,)

I was determined to get a few more shots so
as I hauled that dreaded step ladder to a new position
I met yet another man coming out of the field,

said hello and went about my photo taking!

I noticed out of the corner of my eye that he was taking my photo up on that step stool...

I couldn't think of why anyone would be taking a photo of me,

but laughingly just thought to myself

"oh goody, another "flattering" photo of myself"....lololol

When I was finally about to leave, he and his wife were standing at their vehicle and with the equipment he had hanging around his neck, I knew he was more than a hobbyist like me so I asked if he had a website that I'd like to see his Sunflower field shots...

That was when he told me he worked for the Associated Press and gave me his card!

Wonder if a photo of me, standing on that dreaded step stool in a field of Sunflowers

will pop up somewhere out there in the news world???

Now... on the verge of heat stroke,

I loaded my step stool, dropped a donation in the box and headed home.

After a glass of Iced Tea I was ready for an afternoon of canning Salsa!

Got that done too but we had our first ever jar break in half inside the canner...

what a mess...

took a couple more shots of backyard flowers and I was ready for bed!!!

My photo's for the day...