Light Stripes (270/366)

TIME: 6:17 pm

PLACE: Living room
SUBJECT: Light on wall

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Late afternoon light in the fall is the best.

Flag Day (165/365)

TIME: 8:23 PM
PLACE: Front porch
SUBJECT: Blowing flag

It’s Flag Day.

Veterans Day (006/365)

TIME: 3:22 pm
PLACE: First Baptist Church Fairview
SUBJECT: Flags

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Stripes (208/365)

Homer: What could be greater than eating and drinking for hours in a drizzling parking lot.
Lisa: Anything.
Bart: No, everything is better.
The Simpsons, “Any Given Sundance” #418, 4 May 2008.

TIME: 5:24 PM
PLACE: Parking lot
SUBJECT: Lines

There is something about a newly asphalted parking lot with fresh stripes.
It’s so orderly.

Christmas Eve (359/366)

TIME:  9:27 PM
PLACE:  Dad’s house
SUBJECT:  StellaDella and her Kindle Fire HD

SD received the “best present ever!” from Paw-paw…a Kindle Fire HD.  Now maybe she’ll stay off of my phone and my laptop. 

Unmatched Style (223/365)

“His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect”

H. H. Munro (Burman born English Novelist and short-story Writer (under pseudonym Saki), 1870-1916)

TIME:  7:11 PM
PLACE:  Soccer practice
SUBJECT:  StellaDella’s soccer socks

We’ve started fall soccer.  I bought SD new socks today – a pair of striped ones and a pair of polka dot ones (in black naturally!).  She decided to mix it up.  I like her style.

Caution–Mud Hazard (127/365)

“Safety first!…and I don’t care who comes second.”

HH’s co-worker whose nickname was “Safety”

TIME:  7:49 PM
PLACE:  Little League Fields
SUBJECT:  Hazard sawhorse

The weather co-operated and StellaDella was finally able to play her second rookie ball game of the season (we only have to make up a couple now).  This hazard horse was covering a muddy depression between the fields where spectators walk.

Horizontal Stripes (087/365)

“Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.”

Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

TIME:  3:46 PM
PLACE:  My bedroom
SUBJECT:  Stripe shadows

We are supposed to get ANOTHER 3-5 inches of snow late tomorrow afternoon – which should all melt by Wednesday and then we are supposed to get up to 71 degrees on Saturday.  Nutsy!  ~*~*~  Anyway, I forgot to put the memory card back in my little camera and could not take my weekly photo at the parking lot at work.  When I returned home I went upstairs to change into sweats and noticed the shadows coming in my bedroom window.  I decided to try to get all artsy with my shot today.  You know what they say about wearing horizontal stripes…I hope they don’t make me look fat.

Curled Up (024/365)

“Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.”

Lillian Jackson Braun (American writer, well-known for her light-hearted series of "The Cat Who..." mystery novels. born 1913)

TIME:  8:37 PM
PLACE:  DramaQueen’s bedroom
SUJBECT:  Tessa

Tessa’s favorite spot to nap is in DQ’s room nestled in her zebra printed, plush covered butterfly chair.  No one (kids, other cat, or dog) usually bothers her while she is in it and she stays all warm and snuggly while she sleeps.  Of course, I took the opportunity to bother her this evening as I had no other ideas for a photo today.  She tolerated the photo session fairly well.

Striped Fields (289/365)

 
“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Nature, ch. 3 (1836, revised and repr. 1849)

TIME:  6:10 PM
PLACE:  Mine Haul Road
SUBJECT:  Cleared field

The new refrigerator arrived today…it is a whole 2 cubic feet larger than our old one.  It also feels larger because I tossed out all the fuzzy, green, rancid items when transferring food from the old fridge to the new one.  Always a good way to make more room in the refrigerator!  I couldn’t get an interesting photo of the new appliance, so after supper, I went for a drive to see what there was to photograph.  I drove some back country roads and found this field.  I liked the tracks that were left on the ground after the harvest.

Wormholes (198/365)

 
“'Tis no sinister nor awkward claim
Picked from the wormholes of long-vanished days,
Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked.”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Exeter, in Henry V, act 2, sc. 4, l. 87. On Henry's claim to France; "sinister" means erroneous or underhanded.

TIME:  6:37 PM
PLACE:  Front porch
SUBJECT:  Barnwood shelf edge.

Dana and I went to the local flea market this morning before she headed home.  I’ve been searching for a certain something to place on my front porch to hide the 2nd entrance door ~ Our home was a duplex until we expanded and made it single housing and we don’t use the 2nd door at all ~ I wasn’t sure what I would put there, but I figured I would know it when I saw it.  One vendor had a two piece hutch made with weathered wood from an old barn.  Bingo.  I talked to the dealer who said she could take $35 off the price.  Tempting, but I didn’t commit right then.  I did take a picture with my cell phone to show HH later.  I showed him the photo and Dana, the enabler, *wink* agreed that it would look good on my porch.  So, dear Dana, due the the pressure that you put on me *ahem*, I caved.  After you left, I went back and purchased the hutch.  It fits the spot perfectly and I love it.  See, you can be a good influence!

Roof (194/365)

“May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you and all your heart might desire.”

Irish Blessing

TIME:  5:59 PM
PLACE:  Back yard
SUBJECT:  Playhouse roof

HH and I built this playhouse for the kids back in 2003 based upon plans from the Family Fun website.  The instructions called for an outdoor, weather resistant fabric or canvas for the roof.  Last year, it really started to show wear; the colors had faded, it had a large rip in the canvas and I could see other holes beginning to emerge.  I guess, after 7 years, It was time for a replacement.  I decided to stick with a stripe pattern like we had before, but chose orange to replace the original green color.  I hemmed up the sides this afternoon and HH helped me reattach it to the structure.  It looks much better now.

The Blue And The Gray (140/365)

 
“The blue and the gray. Let us march together beneath the star- spangled banner.”
 
Laurence Stallings (1894-1968), U.S. screenwriter, and John Ford. Judge William Pitman Priest (Charles Winniger), The Sun Shines Bright, as a former Confederate soldier, speaking at the encampment of the town's Union veterans (1953). 

TIME:  12:49 PM
PLACE:  Longacre Park
SUBJECT:  Bike rack

StellaDella’s kindergarten class was supposed to have their field trip to the zoo today, but the weather was not cooperating.  Instead, they implemented “Plan B” and went bowling and then to a park to eat lunch under a pavilion.  Did I mention, that in a moment of weakness, I volunteered as a parent chaperone?  Luckily, there were quite a number of us and I only had to keep an eye on 3 kiddos.  It was misting and very chilly at the park, but the kids did not mind.  They played in the fenced-in wooden playground for about an hour and had a blast.  I was able to quickly snap this picture while they were running around in a gigantic game of tag.
~*~*~
And here is a shout out to my pop – since today is his birthday (68!)
Happy Birthday Dad…love ya!

Starlight Mints (343/365)

Buddy: I passed through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly twirly gum drops, and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.

Elf (Will Ferrell-actor, David Berenbaum-written by, Jon Favreau-director, 2003)

TIME:  9:12 PM
PLACE:  The kitchen
SUBJECT:  Starlight mint pyramid

Well, even if the calendar says we have 12 more days until winter begins, I’m thinking that it arrived today in my neck of the woods.  The wind was blustery, the temperature dropped into the teens and we had flurries.  No snow accumulation though.  Do you want to hear my snow theory?  Well, even if you don’t want to hear it, I’m going to tell you.  My snow theory is that if it is going to get cold like this, then it needs to snow, otherwise it’s just wasting my time.  Obviously, Mother Nature doesn’t think much of my opinions.

I love Starlight Mints.  Walgreens had them on sale last week, buy 2 bags for $3.00 and get a bag free.  How could I resist?  Plus I needed wanted some to fill up one of my PartyLite Naturally Modern Votive Holders.  I was playing around building a pyramid with some extra ones, and thought that the pattern they made was a good subject.