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Tuesday, October 30, 2012


October Photo a Day Challenge: Day 30

 

My photo-a-day challenge entry for today.

 
Day 30: Clothes




A cowl I crocheted last winter--just waiting for me when the cold comes!

Monday, October 29, 2012


October Photo a Day Challenge: Day 28

 

My photo-a-day challenge entry for today.

 
Day 28: Looking Back
 
 
Me at age 7 in my communion dress.
 
 
 
The challenge photo topic for today--Day 29--is the moon. Since we're currently being battered by Sandy, I don't think I'll be able to do that one!

Friday, October 26, 2012


October Photo a Day Challenge: Day 25

 

My photo-a-day challenge entry for today.

 

Day 25: People




A woman walking on a beautiful fall day.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012




October Photo a Day Challenge: Days 22 and 23

 

My latest  photo-a-day challenge entries.

 

Day 22: In My Town: Signs





The home of the first governor of Rhode Island and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

 


A local restaurant.



My LYS (local yarn shop).



Day 23: The View from Here



Sunset from my office window.

Sunday, October 21, 2012




October Photo a Day Challenge: Day 21

 

My photo-a-day challenge entry for today.

 

Day 21: Calm:  Something that represents calm

 



My bed!



Friday, October 19, 2012


October Photo a Day Challenge: Days 18 and 19

 

I got a little behind again. Here are my photo-a-day challenge entries for yesterday and today.


 

Day 18: Something that made me smile

 


Cuddling gourds! Don't they look like swans?



Day 19: Letters

 


The prompt was any kind of letters. These are some of the most famous in history.


Wednesday, October 17, 2012


October Photo a Day Challenge: Day 17

 

My entry today for the October photo-a-day challenge.

 
Day 17: Fruit


Tuesday, October 16, 2012


October Photo a Day Challenge: Day 16

 

Today’s topic for the October photo-a-day challenge is to take a picture of something you wrote.

 

Day 16: Something I Wrote

 



My first published poem, in Rosebud magazine no. 24, my entry in a reader's contest. It was such a thrill to see this in print!




October Photo a Day Challenge: Day 15

 

Here’s my latest photo for the October photo-a-day challenge.



Day 15: Dinnertime





Chicken stew with rice and vegetables.


Sunday, October 14, 2012


October Photo a Day Challenge: Day 14

 

Here’s my latest photo for the October photo-a-day challenge.


 

 

Day 14: Something that makes me laugh

 


I found this silly greeting card years ago and laughed so much I had to buy it for myself. It still makes me laugh.

Saturday, October 13, 2012


An Addition to Replace a Subtraction

  

We got a new tree today! When the utility company cut down our venerable but half-dead maple several months ago to make room for their street work, I was upset. But they promised to give us a new one when the work was finished.

 

As time passed and the work took forever to get done, I became skeptical; I thought they’d forget about it and I’d have to make phone calls and wait and hope they’d eventually get around to it. But yesterday I found a spot on our curbside grass dug up, and this morning there it was--our new tree!

 

Of course it’s a far cry from the old maple that I used to be able to see from our bedroom window, but it’s going to be fun to watch it grow over the years.

 

Sometimes companies actually do keep their promises.

October Photo a Day Challenge: Day 13

 

Here’s my latest photo for the October photo-a-day challenge.
 
 
 

Day 13: Landscape
 
 




Overlooking Troy, New York, from the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at my husband's reunion last weekend.

Friday, October 12, 2012


October Photo a Day Challenge: Day 12

 

I am doing the October photo a day challenge.  Here is today’s photo.



Day 12: What’s on my living room table

Thursday, October 11, 2012


This year I’m doing the October photo a day challenge.
 
 
Here's today's photo.



Day 11: Close-up


Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Photo a Day Challenge--Day 10


October Photo a Day Challenge: Day 10

 

I am doing the October photo a day challenge.  Here is today’s photo.

 

 

Day 10: Emotion

October Photo Challenge


October Photo a Day Challenge: Days 5 through 9

 

I am doing the October photo a day challenge. I’m a little behind after being away for the holiday weekend, so I’m catching up here.

 

Day 5: Shadow


 
 

 

Day 6: I’m thankful for…


 

 

My husband, my dog, eating outside on warm summer evenings!

 

 

Day 7: Light


 

 

 
Day 8: Angle



 

 

Day 9: Red



 

Thursday, October 4, 2012



October Photo a Day Challenge: Days 3 and 4


I'm doing the October photo a day challenge. Just a day behind so far...here are days 3 and 4.


Day 3: This Happened Today



It rained!



Day 4: What I'm reading now.


Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Photo a Day Challenge


October Photo a Day Challenge: Days 1 and 2

 

I’ve decided to try to do the photo a day challenge for October. I may not get all thirty-one, but I’ll try! It sounds like fun. Anybody else want to join?

 
Here are days 1 and 2:


Day 1: A photo of where you stood when taking the picture





On my stairs.
 
 
 
 
Day 2: A photo of your lunch.

 
 
Half of a bean and vegetable burrito, brought home from a restaurant a few days earlier. (It tasted much better than it looks here.) With a cup of green tea.
 
 

Crochet Fever Comes Back



Crochet Fever Comes Back

 

The cooler weather has rekindled (pun intended) my crochet passion. I’ve been going at it like a demon lately.

 

These photos are for Work in Progress Wednesday:

 

 
I’m finally learning how to make granny squares! Two more rounds of color to go on this one: orange and red. This is made with Lily Sugar 'n' Cream.
 
It’ll be about 18 inches, so I’m not sure yet where I’ll put it, but I love working with the different colors.
 
 
 
 
These are two pieces of a vest I started last winter and just got back to. The yarn is a beautiful, soft merino from Manos del Uruguay.
 
 
 



I just bought this lovely gray yarn to start a shawl.
 
I'm also still participating in my church's prayer shawl ministry. And there will be more to come--I'm into it now!