One for Friday

Well technically 3..........(It should go bigger although doesn't look as good here on blogger.)


My neighbours Echinacea or cone flower,neither of us has ever had any luck growing these.She'd heard it was due to the pine trees we have growing near.Anyway she 's trying again and if hers comes back next year I may try again too because I think they are just beautiful.

Favourite #8

On to August favourites.
Surprise surprise it's a flower picture !

This one.......

Well more of a weed than a flower ! I'm sure it's my favourite for the memory of the photo more than the image it's self,if than makes any sense.I took it on an early morning walk,everything was still covered in dew and it was so peaceful.
Of course there were other contenders this month too,mostly from the labour day weekend we spent with our friends at their cottage.

Like this one......

The baby snapping turtle we saw on our walk.Stuart picked him up and moved him out of harms way.Isn't he cute :)

I love this one too.Again it's more to do with the memory,the feel of it and the early evening light.

The end of a fun day of walks,tubing,swimming and then Ol and our friends son went down to the dock to fish.Just love it.

Back after the weekend with number 9......

Favourite #7

July,I took over a 1000 shots in July.
Almost impossible to pick just one so I've posted 7 which is fitting since it's supposed to be favourite number 7 !!
If it was flowers it would be this one..........

or maybe this one.

Maybe this one because I love the orange of the lily in the background........


Could very easily have been either of these.........

I have an obsession with black eyed Susan's.
I don't know why because I don't really like yellow.
I think it's just the shape they produce.
I could click,click,click all summer.........in fact I do.

If I had to pick a non flower one,it would be this one for sure.......

I don't care I cut his hand off.
It just screams summer fun to me.
Love those clouds in the sky too.

Talking of sky's,my favourite scenery shot this month.I literally yelled "Stop the car,stop the car" creating cries of "why,what"..........

That's what :)

Favourite #6

Number 6 brings us to June.
Again,so many to choose from,so many flowers !
My actual favourite was the father's day photo we try and take every year but I haven't picked that one for here.

Instead I have this one.....

The bud from my beautiful peonies that always seem to get trashed from the rain.
The first chance I get I cut a bunch and bring them in doors.
Another favourite,a plant that again always seems to take a beating from the rain,often so badly they don't even open.
This year they did.........

One more,not plant related but one of my favourites from the whole summer.
It's slightly blurry but I don't care,I love the angle and the drops of water and the evening light.....

While I was gathering all these I realised also that I have some dragonfly photo's that deserve a post of their own,so I'll try and come back later this week with those.

Favourite #5

So #5 means May 2008.

I love May and I took many,many photo's during the month.
Many of my favourite subject,flowers.
So it was hard to pick just one but I did and this is it........

This was a close second though.......

and this a close 3rd.....

My gardens very pink in May !

Favourite #4

Whoops sort of forgot about all my favourite.Oh well,here's favourite #4 ..........

My favourite photo from April last year.
Ol on his birthday,he actually wanted me to take this shot since I made him do it the year before !
Very proud he was of turning 6.
It's not really the photo I love so much as his expression.The I'm pretending not to look but I'm enjoying this really look !

OK Friday I'll be back with #5 from May.

Favourite #3

Here's my favourite from March last year.

I took at 7.30 in the morning just after the snow plow had pasted,we'd had a huge dumping of snow and were about to get another one.I liked how the light looks at that time of the morning and how the snow was blowing at the end of the street,so that you couldn't see to the end.

I turned around to face the other direction and got this......

Snow blowing like crazy across the road,I decided this was the time to get back in doors !! I do love the little touch of orange from the dead leaves in the bottom left hand side.

Favourite #2

Here's my favourite from February last year..........

It's my favourite because:

1, Just like January I hardly took any other pictures in February.
and
2. I just loved the bold shiny red against the paleness of everything else.

The Valentines tradition in my home is that my lovely husband places chocolate hearts all over the house before he leaves for work,for me to find.Some I don't find until later in the day as they're in obscure places ! I love that shell too,it's so smooth and worn by the sea.I picked it up off the beach when we went to see our friends for New year at LBI,NJ.I picked up a ton more but had to edit them !

Favourite #1 !

Well in order to try and keep this blog alive until April I thought I'd post a few of my favourite photo's from last year.They're just personal favourites for one reason or another,not masterpieces in photography by any way !

So I'll go month by month and last January just like this one I took barely any photo's. I did manage to capture this one....



Love the way she's so alert,she promtly took off after this shot,I miss seeing the deer in the garden.I haven't seen them at all this year although there is evidence that they've been around and on Christmas day we briefly saw them running across our neighbours yard.But,sadly no photo ops for me so far this year.