Scratches (043/365)

TIME: 5:27 pm

PLACE: Living room
SUBJECT: Front door

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This is what can happen when you have dogs and don't train them properly to stop jumping when someone is at the door.

I will have to some sanding and re-staining...but there will still be a bit character on that wood.

Green (021/365)

TIME: 8:08 am

PLACE: Back yard

SUBJECT: Moss on fabric planters

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At this time of year, I am happy to see any sort of green in the yard. 

Brought to You Today by the Colors Teal and Brown (354/366)

TIME: 8:32 am
PLACE: Viviano's on the Hill and Shaw's Coffee
SUBJECT: Teal and brown colors

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We kept up the tradition of our annual Italian run this morning.

Gotta have that cheese, salami and Italian cookies for Christmas!

My Triangles (321/366)

TIME: 4:09 pm

PLACE: Street corner
SUBJECT: Triangles of leaves, sidewalk and grass

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I was trying to capture a good perspective of the triangles I saw in the sidewalk, the dried leaves and the patch of grass.  

I took several photos from several different angles and just couldn't get it to work the way I wanted - this is the best shot of the lot.

To make up for it, here, for your entertainment (if you so wish to listen) is James Blunt singing "My Triangle" with Telly on Sesame Street.  

Spoiler alert, they worked the word "hypotenuse" into the song - Impressive!

Alley Leaves and a Fly (272/366)

TIME: 5:51 pm

PLACE: Alley
SUBJECT: Leaves in a water puddle

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I think fall arrived today in the form of a cold rain which knocked some foliage off the trees.

TIME: 6:29 pm

PLACE: Unfinished room
SUBJECT: Fly

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We have had several flies flitting around the house the past week or so.

I hope the cold does away with them soon.

Moth (205/365)

TIME: 8:26 PM
PLACE: Kitchen
SUBJECT: Moth

Stella found this guy in the grass.

Not sure what happened to him.

He can’t fly, he was just fluttering on the ground, turning over and over on his back

I’m pretty sure he is not long for this world.

Fancy Eggs From Fancy Chickens(120/365)

TIME: 7:42 AM
PLACE: Kitchen
SUBJECT: Eggs

My husband received these eggs from his chiropractor.

Fancy.

Character (092/365)

TIME: 4:16 PM
PLACE: Home
SUBJECT: Front door

These scratches have been on our front door since we bought the house.

Not sure how they got there, but I like them – I consider them “character”

Last Year’s Nest (065/365)

“There are no birds in last year's nest.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American, Poet,1807-1882)

TIME:  4:02 PM
PLACE: Work
SUBJECT: Bird’s nest

How much longer before the birds start to nest?
I am so ready for spring.

Magic Beans

TIME: 6:24 AM
PLACE:  Work
SUBJECT:  Coffee Beans

These are very important this early in the morning.

The Dry Grass of July (200/366)

Down goeth the grass, soon wrought to withered hay; Ay me alas, ay me alas, that beauty needs must yield And princes pass, as grass doth fade away.

Thomas Proctor (fl. C. 1578), British poet. A Proper Sonnet, How Time Consumeth All Earthly Things (attributed to Proctor) (l. 2-4). . . Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.

TIME:  6:52 PM
PLACE:  Front yard
SUBJECT:  Our lawn

The bad news…the heat and drought conditions have really taken a toll on our (and everybody else’s) lawn.
The good news…HH doesn’t have to mow in this weather.

Dried Flowers (188/366)

“When the well is dry, they know the worth of water”

Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)

TIME:  7:52 PM
PLACE:  Front yard
SUBJECT:  Clover – dried out from the heat

Another scorcher today – it got up to 106 for our 9th day of over 100 degree heat.  But they are predicting thunderstorms (maybe) tomorrow night.  It will be too late for these guys though.

Cocoon Covering (080/366)

"Seems the caterpillar has emerged from its cocoon as a shark, a shark with a gun for a mouth. Touché."

Mr. Burns, C.E. D’oh, The Simpsons, Season 14, Episode 15, air date: 16 Mar 2003.

TIME:  10:29 PM
PLACE:  Front porch
SUBJECT:  Cocoon

I was trying to take a photo of the moths that were flitting around our front porch light.  I’ve never seen so many, so early in the spring – I guess they are all out due to the unseasonably warm weather we are having.  I was not successful, however.  So, instead, I went with this cocoon hanging on the Purple Sand Cherry.  Don’t know what will be emerging from it…more than likely a moth like the ones I was trying to photograph.

Mud-luscious (076/366)

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

E. E. Cummings (American poet 1894-1962)

TIME:  5:21 PM
PLACE:  Backyard
SUBJECT:  StellaDella

This is the sight that greeted me as I pulled into the driveway this evening - SD wallowing in a mud puddle.   We had waves of thundershowers most of the day and the rain collected in the ruts that had formed underneath the swings.  It turned the depressions into lovely, muddy quagmires, perfect for sloshing and mucking about.  And of course, that is one siren song that SD cannot resist.

Woven (053/366)

“Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.”

Nikolai Gogol (Russian, Playwright, short-story writer, and novelist 1809-1852)

TIME:  10:46 PM
PLACE:  Living room
SUBJECT:  Basket

Yep.  This is all I’ve got today.  Not very exciting, but I do like the texture and pattern of this photo.  So there’s that.

Brownie Pin (042/365)

Twist me and turn me and show me the elf;
I looked in the water and there saw – Myself!

The Brownie Story, Girl Scouts

TIME:  10:45 PM
PLACE:  StellaDella’s brownie vest
SUBJECT:  Brownie Girl Scout Membership Pin

StellaDella participated in a “World Thinking Day” (a special day set aside for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts to think about their sisters around the world) activity today with her Brownie and Girl Scout troop.  That meant I had to finally get around to attaching her pins, badges and patches to her Brownie vest so she could be “official”.  In fact, I had to make a trip to the Council shop earlier in the week to replace the pins that were given to her by the troop because I had no idea where they were in the house.  Miss Organized, that’s me!

The Legendary Esquilax (036/366)

Chief Wiggum: Ooh, and here, out of the mists of history, the legendary esquilax, a horse with the head of a rabbit and the body of a rabbit. [the rabbit hops out of its pen] Oh, it's galloping away.
Lisa: [chasing it] Here, bunny bunny. Here, bunny.
Chief Wiggum: [correcting her] "Here, esquilax".

“Lisa’s Wedding”. The Simpsons. Season 6, episode 19. 19 Mar 1995. 

TIME:  5:17 PM
PLACE:  The backyard
SUBJECT:  Rabbit garden statue

This bunny is made of concrete and will not gallop away.  I think….I hope.  If it does, I’m betting that the zombie apocalypse will be close behind.

End Of The Season (291/365)

"Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands,
come off the whisper of the silk hangers,
the lap of the flat spear leaves."

- Carl Sandburg

TIME:  10:04 AM
PLACE:  Cornfield
SUBJECT:  Corn stalks in a muddy field

A rainy fall morning.  I drove the kids to school then went to Wal-mart (yuck)  for some grocery shopping.  Since it was a Tuesday, it wasn’t too crowded and fairly tolerable.  I even got a flu shot while I was there…no waiting.  On the drive back to the house, I stopped to take a quick photo of one of the many end-of-the-season cornfields I passed along the way.

Moth (230/365)

"...Then the Andorian says: "That's not my antenna"."

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993 TV Series), Episode: Homefront (1996)

TIME:  8:18 AM
PLACE:  Front porch
SUBJECT:  Polyphemus Moth - Antheraea polyphemus

This guy has been hanging out on our front porch for the past two mornings.  He's huge and fuzzy and I am fascinated by his antennae.  After knocking out my picture for the day, I headed over to St. Louis to meet my sister at the Goodwill outlet and several other thrift stores.  This was our way to celebrate the kids being at school for their first full day of the 2011-2012 school year.

Spuds (222/365)

“A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes.”

Greek proverb

TIME:  8:41 PM
PLACE:  Kitchen
SUBJECT:  Potatoes

It was time to dig up our 2 potato plants.  This is the bountiful harvest they produced.  I guess it would have been easier (and cheaper) to buy a 10lb bag at the grocery store.  However, I know for certain that these are organically grown potatoes.  THAT fact alone should add another $2 or $3.00 to the value don’t you think?