Fading

Branches

Just before I took this photo, I took a bunch of photos of the tulips that Steve brought home to me. Then  I sat back and relaxed a little figuring that I had something good for my blog. I looked out the kitchen window and this caught my attention. In the end this was more interesting, even though I really love tulips!

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Garlic

Waiting

While I waited for Steve to finish getting gas for the car I took this photo. We got groceries and were waiting to be able to go home since we had a showing today after work. We are doing our best to wait patiently for our condo sell. May it sell soon. May spring come soon too.

Retro Baby!

While I labored away and cleaned my Mom's cupboard this weekend, I discovered these glasses. Pretty sure they belonged to my Grandmother originally - I just love them! They are my swanky new juice glasses!

On Our Way Home

We went to visit my parents this weekend and as we were heading home I saw this out my car window.

Morning Light

I love seeing the morning light pour into our little kitchen.

Stuck in Stitches

Have you figured out what my new hobby is? I've been learning how to crochet and having a lot of fun at it. I just finished my first dishcloth tonight! After meeting with my friend I was trying to learn a new pattern and my ball of yarn got squished into the side of the couch as I was sitting there. I just liked how it looked.

2/24 - Basket

2/23 - Half Double Crochet

2/22 - Ode to Grandma

2/21 - Melon

2/20 - Company

2/19 - Learning to Crochet

2/18 - Hula Hoop?

2/17 - Ice Cream, oh change that - Icicle

Okay - I guess I am cheating - this photo was taken on 2/18. But honestly the real photo today is horrible. So to be honest here is the original photo too - but personally I do not like it one bit even though I throughly enjoyed this ice cream

I can blog again!

I was just able to log into my blog! I am so very excited, since I have been locked out for awhile now. I'll be posting photos tonight!

House Plant - Part 2

It survives my lack of watering... when I get busy I tend to forget about the plants. This is the one that starts to look sad and tells me it is time to water all of them.

Wavy Clouds

The sky looked so very cool to me this afternoon, the clouds were all wavy-like.

New Petals

One of my favorite flowering plants the cyclamen.

Triple Dog Dare

If Ralphie and Flick from the movie A Christmas Story, were outside today, I think it just might have been a triple dog dare you sort of day. Frost was everywhere, do you think your tongue would stick to the flag pole?

Here Comes the Sun

The last few days as I am leaving work the sun is actually still out, it has been such a wonderful thing, considering I spend most of my day in the basement of a building with few windows. 

I quickly too this photo as I was walking to my car thinking it was no good, until I compared it to the others I just took. Silly me, I should have looked at this sooner.

That's How the Petals Fall

My tulips fell apart today. This is what I saw this morning when I was throwing them away, more petals fell off and onto the floor. The color in the petals got brighter as the flowers started to die...doesn't quite make sense to me. 

Frost

Frost on my car windows this morning. Wish I could have zoomed in even more.

Icicles

There are a lot of icicles on our building right now, I even have a collection going on my car. They are forming everywhere! I looked up above our door and there are some seriously large and dangerous ones that are slowly melting - but these aren't those. That photo was no so cool - ha!

Snow

I it started snowing yesterday, and it is still coming down right now. Perhaps enough for a snow day?

Tulips

I bought flowers the other day since we had 2 showings over the weekend for our condo. May not have been a deciding factor for them, but it sure does make the house feel a little more like spring.

Albums

Today I've been making mini albums. Not sure what I am going to use them for yet, but they are so fun to make. Maybe I'll print out the photos I've been taking this year and make an album out of each month, could be kinda interesting.

Raspberries

I like to freeze berries for making smoothies. Yum!

Carts

I like the tire marks that curve around the carts - thought it was interesting.

Minneapolis by Night

This was taken as we were heading into downtown Minneapolis to go to church tonight. 

Blanket of Snow

At first glance or even second glance it may be hard to tell what this is exactly. In the spring it is a lovely flowering plant, right now it looks like a weed. I like the contrast of the bright, clean, new snow compared to the dried up branches. Snow makes it beautiful.

Stuff Around the House: Ceiling Fan

Apparently, I am doing a series on things around my house, I just did not realize it until now. This was never intentional, but with cold days and the sun disappearing before I get home, I end up looking around my house for something to photograph. I thought it would be interesting to capture motion today.

Dresser

I like the lines on our dresser. Today was a treasure hunt around the house in hopes of finding something to photography. I should not have waited to the last minute, but I kinda forgot about it all day!

How we get the Internet

This cable is what allows me to post on this blog. Normally we leave it plugged in and it placed safely along the wall and under a rug to avoid a major tripping hazard. However, we are trying to sell our little condo so everyday I disconnect the cable and have to hide it away for the day. I can't wait for the day when we get to move and perhaps have a better set up! Until then, I find the twisting of the cable rather intriguing. 

Sushi

This is what I did today at work. We used fruit roll-ups to make mock sushi rolls. Lots of fun!

Parking Lot Shadows

This is the wall that separates my backyard from the highway. Not the most beautiful thing in the world to look at, but I found the relationship between the actual objects and their shadows to be interesting, suddenly the "wall" became a canvas.

A Rather Deceptive Day

I have not seen the sun in awhile, so today was a nice surprise. However it was very chilly, wind chill of -14. I call days like these the classic Minnesota deceptive winter days. It's sunny out and looks like it should be warm, but it is quite the opposite.

So that is my photo for today. I feel really lame about the photos I have been posting this entire week. It has been really hard to do and the photos I post, I am not super excited about. Perhaps the excitement of taking a photo a day is gone. I hope it comes back or maybe I can find inspiration a different way? Any suggestions would be graciously accepted.

Christmas lights in aisle 7

I can't decide if they are purposely leaving the Christmas lights up or not.

Headlights as light source

I was waiting after work while Steve dropped his truck off to be fixed. I found this interesting - headlights from my car and the parking lot light are the light sources. I also like how the ice on my front windshield adds to the photo.

A gray kinda day

It has been a very gray weekend here. It was so hazy this afternoon that you couldn't see the tops of the buildings.

It works!

For Christmas I got this wonderful gift. It allows me to press a design with ink into paper, like old school letterpresses. However when my sister and I tried it out the first time, we had horrible results, the machine was broken. Exchanged the machine for a new one that did work, but then I had issues with the brayer...mine seemed uneven, I could not evenly ink my plates. I wrote the company explaining my situation and they kindly sent me a new brayer. So today I tried again, and the results were much better! I am so excited to make cards and other papery embellished things using the L Letterpress. However, I need to have a plan since it does take a bit to set it up and it is not easy to switch colors....so a little planning will go a long way.

Cupcakes followed by a little Wii Fit

I got a recipe for a cream cheese  and chocolate chip filling for cupcakes, super yummy! After eating it I knew I had to do a little Wii Fit to at least attempt to burn it off, Steve joined in on the fun too. So my photo of the day really is just the Wii image, but I had to throw in the cupcakes too, since it tells the story. Here is the recipe if you want to try making these:

Mix together cake recipe of your choice - chocolate is best! Fill muffin papers half full.

Filling:

2/3 cup sugar

1 egg

8 oz. cream cheese

1 cup chocolate chips (mini chocolate chips are great, but regular size are just as tasty)

Drop a spoonful of filling into each muffin cup. Bake according to cupcake directions or until done.

I really want another one of these! They are so very good!

Scrape, scrape, scrape...

We had freezing rain today. What more can I say, except that maybe today is a good day for ice skating?

Lines

I see this everyday at work and then today (actually yesterday is when I noticed, but today I took the photo) I started really seeing the architecture, all the horizontal and vertical lines. Very structured, very linear.

New Glasses

Today I got new glasses. I have been waiting patiently since about October to get these, wanted to wait until the new year since we have a health spending account. I am still trying to decide if I like these, they are so different from my old pair that were rimless and felt like they where invisible when I wore them. Well at least I can see better which means I can take better pictures, right?

Sunny Skies

 Noticed this reflection on the hood of the car today after being able to get it washed. Yes the sun was out and it was warm! Minnesota warm is above zero with no wind chill. Today it was 34. The sun felt so good on my face.

Frozen Branches

It has finally started to warm up a bit here. Water dripping off the roof froze onto the branches of this bush. I didn't expect to see this today.