Can you tell where we went Friday evening?!? My husband’s work helped sponsor this event, so we got free tickets and went and had some fun!!! If you’ve never been to a Demolition Derby, you should find one and go. Everyone should have that unique experience at least once in their life. It’s pretty interesting 😮 ! Smash, Bang, Crash!!!
As I’ve previously mentioned, I’ve made a goal to use photos from my own stash to post along with quotes I love. Well, I really like this photo of a rodeo clown, but as you can imagine, I haven’t come up with any good quotes to go along with it! 😮 !!! So, for today’s THURSDAY THOUGHT, I attempted a Haiku:
THE RODEO CLOWN
Warm Summer Evening
The Clown Elicits A Smile
Do Unto Others
Hello! Aren’t tulips BEAUTIFUL!!!!???!!! I volunteered at a local tulip festival today and after my shift, I just had to go around and take some pics of these fabulous beauties! Did you know there are over 109 different species of tulips? Wowza! Check these out:
AND look at this interesting one…an upside-down tulip! I tried to search for the actual name and one website had a similar looking one (only in red) and said the locals in Turkey call it the Weeping Bride Tulip. But if any of you know the actual name of this specie, please leave me a comment and let me know!
Also, now I think I want to read Alexandre Dumas’ book ‘The Black Tulip’! I’ll let you know my review on that in a later post. I also need to enter a to-do item on my calendar for the fall: Plant more tulip bulbs!!!
Have a great day everyone! Go and do or learn something NEW!
Wow! This week (and last week) has WHIZZED by! I guess I’ve been overly busy with things. Along with all the ‘normal-life’ activities…I took a fun NEW class on Photoshop last week and went to a Family History conference this week. All GOOD stuff….so I have some NEW stuff in my brain. Yeah! 🙂
I realized I hadn’t been out shooting much this week, but wanted to continue with the Alicia’s Project Nurture Photography Challenge. This week’s theme is green(easy!), so I hurriedly went out to the backyard and took a pic of the lilac bushes…just starting to bud and blossom. Therefore, here’s my entry for this week (above).
So…about this NEW genealogical stuff in my brain: I want to share one GREAT thing that’s happening in the world of family history. There’s a project underway called the “Preserve The Pensions – War of 1812”. When its completed, it should be wonderful! One of the presentations I attended today explained that in order for people to get their military pensions, they had to prove they were entitled to them. Makes sense, right? However!…Since they couldn’t just go down to the copy-shop and make a copy of their marriage certificate, family bible or other important documents..guess what many did!?!?! They TORE OUT the page of the family bible, (for instance the ‘Marriages’ page) and sent THE ORIGINAL into the government as proof they were married to the soldier and should be eligible for benefits! WOW!!!! So this project is in the process of digitizing all the files… (all those original documents)! Such a GREAT thing! They have a long way to go and it’s expensive, so they’d like donations. What they have digitized so-far is free on Fold3.com. Check it out!
Have a great day and DO OR LEARN SOMETHING NEW!
Linking to: Project Alicia
I THOUGHT Spring was coming!…And here’s a ‘turquoise’ shot for the Nurture Photography Challenge:
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Friday evening, my husband and I attended a meeting and he had to be there early to set up. So I dropped him off and went shooting. I captured these beautiful blossoms and I liked how the sun was shining on the ivy around these trees. (plus the nice vertical/diagonal lines). I hope to get out more this week and shoot something NEW! Have a terrific week!
Who knew I could get sore muscles from taking photographs! Wow! I’ve found out I definitely can!!! And it REALLY hurts! Apparently if I hold my camera up for a long time…trying to keep it really still while focusing through the tiny opening in a chain-link fence and holding it there for a while, waiting for the tennis player on the other side of the fence to make an awesome shot, it uses muscles I never knew I had! Note to self: take a tripod next time!
The best way I know of getting rid of lactic acid build-up is swimming. I’ve got to try and make it to the pool ASAP! Any other suggestions of how I can get rid of this awful PAIN!?!?….Fast!?
This quote was on a recent handout from the Family History class I’m taking. LOVE.IT!!! I coupled it with one of my favorite shots. Again, thank goodness for phones with cameras!…because, of course, when this scene appeared before me, I didn’t have my ‘good’ camera with me! My hubby always says, “What kind of photographer are you?”…when I lament leaving my camera home :o)
Everyone have a great day today, and try to ‘earnestly exert yourselves to give as much as you receive’ today!
Well, you all know I love, loVE, LOVE learning something NEW! I was recently visiting gembobs crafts and really enjoyed reading through the ’50 Happy Facts to get you in the mood for life’! AND…I learned something new! (see happy fact number 31) I did not know (or if I once knew, I soon forgot) that a group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. COOL! :o) Other terms are: colony, flurry, regiment or stand of flamingos.
I took this pic at a nearby aviary last summer and right when I was going to get some really good pics of these flamingos, my camera battery went DEAD! But thank goodness for phone cameras, right?
Do or learn something NEW today!
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