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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

shapes - team up thursday

The assignment we had this week was to find and photograph something with SHAPES. The following is what we found:

TOP PHOTO: by berta

This is the one I chose for SHAPES. This window is in a building that is well over 100 years old in our little town. It so happens that this window is in the back of the building - so often overlooked and something I looked at for years without really seeing it. When I do that (not see something) I like to say that "I saw it again for the first time"! I was amazed at all the shapes not only in the window but in the stone building that was hand hewn out of rock with great care and skill. I looked with amazement at the craftsmanship all around this building - utter amazement!

BOTTOM PHOTO: by corey

I love the angle that Corey took this photo - very interesting. When I first saw her photo, I thought, "Man, we were thinking alike this week!!!" The shapes and color in this walkway are amazing if you really look at it. The geometry is amazing - it took much preparation to make this design happen! I especially love the colors. Corey's got a great eye and I always love her interpretation of a subject - she's a master that's for sure.

If you get a second, please drop by Megan's blog-pad - it's always a delight and she's such a great hostess!

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

rethinking spring break! GIVING

Being a native-Californian, spring comes in April. Being a Idaho-transplant, spring does not come in April - not by a long-shot! I awoke this morning to school-closures coming over the radio - they reported it dropped another 6" (and much more in other areas) of snow during the night with winds that cause havoc for school buses and students waiting for said bus! SO, we really need to 'rethink' this Spring Break business school administrators! The winds are blowing like crazy and the snow that a Good-Samaritan-neighbor just cleared from our driveway will soon be undone! If you want to see Bob's blood pressure rise, just look out the window and say the words, "Spring Break"! He is definitely feeling slighted by not being able to golf on his days off. Ohhhhhh!

The day before Easter (Saturday) I looked out the window and saw black, black smoke across the valley. We live on a hillside that overlooks the our valley home. That looked very suspicious especially when it was snowing and the valley was snow-covered. No farmers were out this time of year burning weeds on ditch banks. I went and got "Big Bertha" - my Nikon 500 mm so I could zoooooom in and see what I could see! Bob figured it was in the "S" curves on the highway west of town. He was right on! A "fellow-principal's" home had just gone up in smoke. The home was probably worth $500,000+ (my dream-home) with a dance studio attached! I was in shock - it was a well-constructed home totally out of brick - but it's totally gone including their cars - not a tooth brush was saved! The winds that day fanned the fire and the family lost everything! We heard the dad was still wearing a t-shirt and PJ bottoms since the fire. Whitney and I were very impressed as we watched dad clean out his closets (we knew he was saving all those clothes for some reason) and took a car full of clothes over to the dad. He will be well-dressed! I will be gathering home/kitchen items to help them back on their feet. My clothing size does not jive with the mom's!!!! haha! An account for the family has been setup at a local bank to help them recover from this ordeal. I relate to their ordeal as we went through the same process after surviving the Teton Dam Disaster back in 1976 - not a fun ordeal!

Monday, April 5, 2010

easter 2010 - mosaic monday

~my easter lily~

I think I'll use this as my ENTRY into Mosaic Monday hosted by Mary - she's the greatest!
JOURNAL ENTRY:

(watch for more pictures - coming soon!)

What an interesting Easter/Spring break we had this year! For one thing, it stormed and stormed - one might call it a blizzard on Saturday - I'm not sure it snowed that hard ALL winter! Our family planned a get-together/party, we do it every year! Idahoans don't know the meaning of 'cancel' so, we went ahead and held our party inside. We headed down to the health club/party center (family owned) and did our magic! Yes, our Idaho men braved the weather and barbecued our meat outside - no-big-deal to them, a hardy bunch!

With all family members, we counted close to 300 plastic eggs were stuffed and hidden - we have a big family with lots of little ones. It was crazy with all the kids. The older kids actually looked for their eggs out in the snow - some forgot their shoes and went hunting anyway, their feet red and hurting but they said, "It was worth it!" We had a feast, as usual - everyone brought side-dishes and the meat was furnished by Shawn and Kandee.