I slept in had plenty of yummy hot coffee, black.
Made myself a yummy breakfast smoothie, since I have been drinking these for breakfast (about a month now) I have been sleeping lots better, and I am not nauseas all the time. It is half a banana (I use a tiny bit more, then eat the rest of the banana) Half cup of OJ, two or three strawberries (if I have them) half cup plain yogurt, and a tablespoon of flax seed oil. BLEND, then I add a few chunks of frozen fruits, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, cherries, blackberries, mango. BLEND then YUMMM! SO good.
Now I will probably go to the park with my hubby to take some pictures. We do need to go to the store and get stuff for mothers day brunch. Sister in law just called and said we were in charge of bringing meat. Really? The two people who will not eat bacon or sausage are in charge of bringing pork? So she laughed and assigned us eggs, we will buy 3 dozen eggs and tons of veggies for a big batch of egg scramble. There are going to be a dozen people there.
Have a great weekend People!
I was tagged a few times with this one, this one you sum your life up in 6 words and add an illustration. Hmmm
I am supposed to tag several people, but lots of you have been tagged already, and some do not like to be tagged. So I will leave it up to you, If this looks like Fun, Do It!
I told myself I was going to work out this week, I did go for a long bike ride on Monday, but that was the extent of that. sigh, so I will start today! I will go for another ride, the sun is out, it looks like it will be a decent day. This weekend is going to be yucky, but whatever. Here are a few of the pictures I took of my town while on my bike ride on Monday. These were not on manual, I let my camera think for me.
I used this to my advantage to ask a few people if I could take pictures in the back yard. Two people accepted, the third was not home, but I so want to go back there, there is a HUGE decaying barn there. It is Gorgeous!
Anyway, the alley pictured here with the fence of many panels, with mean dogs that wanted to chew me up behind it I met two lovely towns people. They have lived in their houses since the 1950's. Both houses date from the 1920's (early). Gordon told me of his sons shooting at a target on his now leaning garage, the BB's are rusted in the weathered wood. They received these guns for Christmas in the 1960's. I thought of Ralphies red rider BB gun. He allowed me to take some pictures of his leaning garage, a wrens nest that was built in the middle of a rug that was hanging on a wire, a rusting blue bike, and he told me personal stories of what it was like living here long before I was born. He was very friendly.
Then to his neighbors home, she lives alone and she is elderly. Out on her porch sunning herself. I look at her gutters and they are growing a lot of plants, they look like little window boxes. It must have taken ten or more years to get that amount of growth on there. She must have leeks in her roof. I would like to go back and clean those out for her. I ask her if I can go to the back yard and take pictures. Her back yard is basically paths between bluebells and ivy, littered with rusty antiques. She said "it is not very pretty back there" I told her to me it really is. I plan to print out some pictures and bring them back to her. The last 4 pictures are from her back yard, they barely show all the stuff she has back there. When I was leaving she was inside, I suspect
I hope you all have a great weekend and If I do not pop in this weekend, please, all of you Mothers, Have an amazing Mothers day!
First off, I want to THANK all of you SO SO SO much! For the Support, Advice, Everything. I do believe I have learned almost as much from you people as I have from my class! You, Vox People, Are the BEST!!!
That said, here is day two. My sister in law came over. She has been asking me to take her photos for a long time now. Her Daughter was my subject yesterday. You may be able to see a family resemblance.
My bads were not as bad as yesterday, I went the other way and overexposed some photos. I learned MORE! ;-) So Tell me what you think.
THE BAD:
The GOOD!:
I have been clinging to my auto setting, my training wheels. Mainly because When I go somewhere far away from home (more than 2 miles) I feel that when I see something I really want to capture I don't want to mess it up. I want the shot. This has been my excuse. So After starting my photography class I am ready to take the plunge. I asked for my super photogenic teenage niece to come to my house after school yesterday. She is very easy to take pictures of. I thought, I can have her over any time, so if I mess up these photos, I can take more. I took about 200 pictures, and about 30 turned out well. I was discouraged because we did some really awesome poses and the picture in the darkness is gorgeous. BUT, I learned quite a bit, I hope. I am not really sure about the shutter speed. I think my mind automatically goes to bigger the number more light, but I was wrong I guess. So here are some of my results!
THE GOOD
1. the huge piles of laundry to wash and put away (I know, this is almost always on my yucky list)
2. cold coffee in my cup
3. My photography class is on mondays and I miss the show "how I met your Mother" and the first 10 minutes of "House"
4. my super tight clothes
5. I have to go grocery shopping tonight
Things I really like:
1. I have learned a lot from the photography class and made a few friends
2. I am becoming more social instead of sitting alone in my house
3. The local farmers market opened, and I have my eye on several tomato plants
4. I am going to continue my photography classes in the Summer
5. It is an overcast day and I am going to ask for my niece to come here after school so I can start shooting manual. I think I am ready to take the training wheels off for a little while.
6. I went on a very long bike ride and took some really great photos in peoples back yards. I am losing my shyness a little bit.
7. my over ripe bananas are going to turn into banana bread today, with extra walnuts
8. I saw bits of my town yesterday I never knew existed and chatted with a fellow who has lived in his 1920 house since the late 50's. He told me stories about his little corner of town, and I listened. It makes my town seem a little richer.
9. All the sweet birdies in my back yard, hopping all over my bursting lilac bush.
10. I am feeling so much more comfortable in my own skin. Took me long enough! Haha!
Happy Tuesday All!
We went to the Old Soldiers Home in Orting. There is a giant tank in the front drive, one that I did not get a decent picture of. About a dozen old brick buildings, the most impressive one is abandoned. It is structurally unsafe. It was named after a Civil War general who apparently resided here, and some of the residents say he still does. They then told me that sasquatch has been seen down by the fish pond and then decided to tell them that they were now probably pulling my leg. These three WWII vets insisted they were not while puffing on their cigarettes. There were about seven of us who showed up from class, we all scattered. Most of the people went down to the fish pond, it was really beautiful there.
Well, not too lonely. I don't mind being alone. Husband and my dad went off to play poker and I am here watching reruns of CSI. Today I met with my class to go on a photo shoot day. My teacher ended up taking pictures of me on a really neat old bridge today. I ind of liked it. I hope they turned out well. My step mother tried to get me into modeling when I was a teen, I was just under 6 feet tall and a hair above 100lbs. Too bad I was so unsure of myself and just wallowed in my awkwardness. I always wanted to try it out. Sounds kind of strange I know, but it was fun today. The pictures below are not from that field trip. The are from my photo walk earlier this week. I found lots of neat stuff along the RXR tracks that day. Here are a few of them. Tomorrow I meet with another group of photographers to walk around downtown at the farmers market. (Sherry, we meet at 10 in the wading pool if you are free)
Tonight I will make this awesome spaghetti, it is SO easy to make and it is SO delicious!
First, Boil water for the whole wheat spaghetti and cook al dente.
* in a blender or food processor blend 1 can of Diced Tomatoes w/ garlic, 2 fresh chopped tomatoes, 1 cup fresh basil leaves, 5-7 minced garlic cloves (recipe calls for 2 TBSP but we love garlic), 2 TBSP olive oil, fresh ground pepper. Blend until just chunky
* In a bowl mix the cooked noodles (easier to mix if you snap the noodles in half before you cook them) and the sauce.
*Sprinkle lemon juice over the pasta and top with goat cheese.
Seriously a 15-20 minute meal. SO GOOD!
Tomorrow I am going on a field trip with my photography class. I am excited but also nervous. I get so nervous for such silly reasons. We are going out to Orting, Farmland. It sounds like a lovely trip. BUT, it is supposed to be raining! YUCK! I need to stop by the thrift store today to see if I can pick up a rain slicker and maybe a camera bag. I refuse to pay full price for these things. I am a total penny pincher.
I am hoping to get home at a decent time in the afternoon, our towns farmers market starts tomorrow too! We buy as many of our groceries there as we can. It is early in the season, so it is basically just greens, but they are SOOOOO good!
Sunday seems like it will be a nice relaxing wear your jammies till noon type of day. Maybe I will go to the park to see if that mama goose has hatched her babies yet. They are so cute.
Todays list:
*dishes and countertops
*laundry
*upload photos from my walk along the RxR tracks to flickr
*work out
*walk to thrift store to see if they have items I need, and maybe items I don't (Haha)