Sweet Sauer Photo Hunt - Done!!

Well I managed to get almost all of the pictures I needed. I had to dig up 2 from my archives to finish it off (a door way and my version of a cemetery). But it's done and you can click here: MY PICASA ALBUM to see my pictures. Or click here:

sweet sauer photo hunt

If you go to Kristi's Sweet Sauer Blog you can see all the participants and have the chance to vote May 1-7. Click HERE to go to her blog.

Macro Monday - lily

I thought i'd have some fun with the lily I bought my mom last week. This is my favorite shot!

Check out more Macro monday pictures by clicking on the picture below.

Mellow Yellow ~ Bump

I let my son choose today's yellow picture. He has a rather huge fascination with street signs (and lights) and pretty much anything to do with driving and he's got a dozen or so years to go. So of course when he saw this sign in my folder it had to be this instead of my beautiful tulips and lillys i would have chosen.

Lone Red Tulip

I love the bright center and faded outer petals of the lone red tulip in our garden.

Fresh Dried Laundry

I love that this shot means that I got to hang my laundry to dry for the first time this spring. I absolutely love the smell of sheets dried on the line.

Sky Watch Friday

This is about as interesting as the sky has gotten around here lately. Lots of Beautiful cumulus clouds!! And the lone bird ~ that appears as a smudge ☺See the post below for another sky shot this week.

The reason I love to come home

This is the view as we crest the hill to drive back into town...

Here's middle boo's photo monday picture. He's been snapping pictures all morning so I got him to choose one.

Macro Monday

We ventured out for a bit yesterday and my hubby took the camera to have some fun experimenting with the camera and different shots. So I chose one of his for my Macro Monday shot.

My kitty - SOOC

I snapped this shot friday night as Dessie was sunning herself infront of the house.

Angel Shadow

We had beautiful weather this week and spent a fair amount of time out on the sundeck. Little Boo found some dress-up clothes that needed mending. She wouldn't stop until i fixed it so she could wear it, i got some done and saw a great shawdow shot... the one i thought was "so great" was not at all... but this one turned out.

Middle Boo and I had fun taking some shawdow shots!

Photo Hunt #158 ~ Purple

"Why is purple at the end of the rainbow?" I don't know if this is playing by the rules, but here's my shot for this weeks theme ~ purple.

Mt Baker

I wouldn't say that this photo is that great... but i love how the mountain looks like it's made of many clouds.

Our deck chairs

Middle Boo is on a HUGE camera kick this week... what have i started LOL yesterday he ran around taking a million pictures. The best was when he came running up and declared he had to take a picture... Of what? I asked. ~ little Boo's snotty nose!!

I love his perspective, being a few feet shorter, his shots are much different than mine.

Pic a theme has by monthly themes... i thought I'd join in in my own way. The end of April is chairs and benches.

The Boos Weekly Photos

Middle Boo:

Big Boo:
Can you tell we had pancakes for breakfast this weekend.

Macro Monday - He is not here...

He is ALIVE!!

The kids each had an empty egg in their Easter baskets to remind them of why we celebrate Easter.

Lily's flower - SOOC

Straight Out of the Camera Sunday is another fun posting... Check it out HERE

Here's my contribution
Our Chinese girls planted some flowers in the fall that bloomed months after they had left. I captured it exactly how I wanted to!

Sweetsauer Photo Hunt #1

I don't know how JEN found all these photo contests, but thanks!! I LOVE IT ☺☺☺☺

Here's a challenging one... I wonder if I'll be able to do ti?? Check out Sweet Sauer

Shadow Shot Sunday

Here's my shadow shot for this week. I was trying to get a picture of little boo's snappy and loved how this shot turned out. I think she just discovered shadows for the first time.

I'm back (!?!!!!)

So I made it back to the blogger world, but there is still a ways to go and I may have lost some of you along the way....

Here's a little story to get you started:

I have received a few Gerbera Daisies as gifts through the years, and they bloom once and i faithfully water them only to have them never flower again (just leaves and more leaves) and after the next season it usually gets chucked cause i figure i have killed it somehow.

Well last year Sarah brought me a beautiful HUGE pot (with 3 pants) when little boo was born. It sat outside all winter long, maybe i brought it in for a bit but then i put it out too early and all but killed it. I had another sitting in my kitchen so come spring i planted it in the huge pot with the others.

We came home from holidays and i inspected my plants to see how they had fared in the heat. Well to my joyous surprise i discovered that all the plants in the pot were blooming.



I am so excited to see the beautiful flowers in the coming days. Here's a sneak peek:

PS i did give them a bit of fertilizer, but only once. :)

Habitats

DD was given an assignment as we went away this weekend to see how many habitats she could find... well I jumped right on that...

I had a great time and we actually found MANY different animals...

Opa saw a grizzly one day out on the boat, and a black bear the next... we return home only to find that a bear cub had been up our neighbor's tree all day friday :( and we missed it!!

Uncle had a mouse building a nest in his battery box...
We had the fish and the shrimp in the lake...

And don't forget the worms we had to dig up to catch the fish...


The mating ducks... the male was very insistant that the two females with him were his and he did NOT want any more... he kept chasing the others away....The beaver dam and the horses in the field...The frogs that mom and Danika caught... dani had to go find more after Oma found her two little ones... she played with them all weekend... like last year with natalie, only then there were millions!!Some kind of habitat... any guesses??The beautiful butterflies... i saw at least 3 around this tree...
And finally the hawks nest along the side of the main road...