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365/365 | Friday, December 31, 2021 | #365PictureToday

12 o'clock

Picture More | Leading Lines | Picture Time 

My sons were up late playing board games before ringing in the new year.

 

 

 

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364/365 |  Thursday, December 30, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Star 

Picture More | Leading Lines

I got a new bow for my wreath this year and wanted to get a picture of it when it was all shiny and new.

 

 

 

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363/365 | Wednesday, December 29, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Food

Picture More | Leading Lines 

We still have tons of cookies and chocolates in the house so I decided to use them to try to create something that resembles a tree.

 

 

 

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362/365 | Tuesday, December 28, 2021 | #365PictureToday 

Glowing  

Picture More | Leading Lines 

My son gave me some new candles for my centerpiece so I thought I would test them out.

 

 

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361/365 | Monday, December 27, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Appreciation

Picture More | Leading Lines 

I appreciate that our house is nestled in the woods.  The trees provide an ever-changing view of the sky and our surroundings.  Today I decided to look up through the canopy of bare tree branches to the mostly overcast sky.

 

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360/365 | Sunday, December 26, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Reflect

Picture More | Leading Lines

A new banner was put up for today's church service, and the pews and runner act as leading lines.  It's definitely time to reflect on the thought of joy to the world.  "Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them.  But his mother treasured all these things in her heart." ~Luke 2:51

 

 

 

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359/365 | Saturday, December 25, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Christmas Day

Picture Color | Indigo 

Well, there's blue but not really any indigo.  I chose this picture because my sons got each other the same present, and they opened them at nearly the same time.

 

 

 

Merry Christmas!

 Buddy the Elf wishes everyone Merry Christmas!  This was taken at David's parents' house on Thursday.

 

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358/365 | Friday, December 24, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Valuable

Picture Color | Indigo

I'm sure that someone is wearing indigo, but my focus is on the lighting of the candles and singing of "Silent Night" that is done at the end of our Christmas Eve service nearly every year.  After not having one last year, it was wonderful to have the service this year. "Silent night, holy night; Son of God, love's pure light; Radiant beams from Thy holy face; With the dawn of redeeming grace"

 

 

Another of my favorite scenes on Christmas Eve is the appearance and lighting of the Christ candle.

 

 

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357/365 | Thursday, December 24, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Ornament

Picture Color | Indigo 

Tonight we had Christmas with my husband's family at his parents' house.  My mother-in-law has little birds on her tree, and I was delighted to find what I believe is an indigo bunting!

 

 

 

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356/365 | Wednesday, December 22, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Believe

Picture Color | Indigo 

My bowling ball is definitely purple (and not indigo), but bowling every Wednesday this year has helped me believe in the good that is out there and given me positive energy.  Today we had our bowling party where we bring in a first strike gift and goodies to share.  You can even see the reflection of the festive lights at the bowling alley in my ball.

 

 

 

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355/365 | Tuesday, December 21, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Curly

Picture Color | Indigo

Wrapping presents today, and I went with a silver and purplish/indigo color scheme.

 

 

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354/365 | Monday, December 20, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Prompt Free

Picture Color | Indigo 

One of these sweaters must be indigo.

 

 

 

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353/365 | Sunday, December 19, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Decorations

Picture Color | Indigo 

I noticed that the advent banner and advent candles are what I am choosing to call indigo for the day.  "And Mary said: 

'My soul glorifies the Lord

and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,

for he has been mindful 

of the humble state of his servant.

From now on all generations will call me blessed, 

for the Mighty One has done great things for me --

holy is his name'" ~Luke 1:46-49

 

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352/365 | Saturday, December 18, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Broken

Picture Style | Indoors | Song Lyrics

We have a whole set of ornaments from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman. This is Bumble, the abominable snowman from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer animated show.  Bumble is very mean until Hermey, the elf who wants to be a dentist, discovers that his teeth are bothering him, and he is able to help him by fixing them.  Nearly all of the characters are misunderstood until the end of the show, but they all come to be accepted for who they are.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
"Rudolph, with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"

 

 

 

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351/365 | Friday, December 17, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Stunning 

Picture Style | Indoors 

This is one of my favorite ornaments.

 

 

 

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350/365 |  Thursday, December 16, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Transparent

Picture Style | Indoors

I haven't played with my lens ball in quite a while so it was fun to get it out again.  This is the picture I like the best.

 

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349/365 |  Wednesday, December 15, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Adaptability

Picture Style | Indoors 

In addition to putting my camera into manual focus to intentionally blur the image, I also took the picture in black and white to focus more on the light and texture.

 

 

 

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348/365 | Tuesday, December 14, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Candy Cane

Picture Style | Indoors 

I just set up a jar of candy canes in front of my message board inside the Lego wreath that I put together a few weeks ago.

 

 

 

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347/365 | Monday, December 13, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Sloped

Picture Style | Indoors | Macro Monday 

I totally missed that this was supposed to be Macro Monday, but it is a picture of a Lego gingerbread house.  That works, right?  The roofs of the house are sloping and so is the ceramic Christmas tree.

 

 

 

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346/365 | Sunday, December 12, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Tranquility

Picture Style | Indoors 

I just love these stained glass windows in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.  It is the Christ Resurrection Window from the All Saints Episcopal Church in Richmond, and it was designed by the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company in 1900.  The church built a new, larger building in 1957, and the window was placed in storage until it was donated to the VMFA (around 2008, if I'm reading correctly).  Some of the other Tiffany designed windows were moved to the new church location. 

 

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345/365 | Saturday, December 11, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Gift Wrap

Picture You | What I Love

I love when the gifts start stacking up under the tree, and we get all of the additions to the tree added: things like the tree skirt, the lighted village, and the train.

 

 

 

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344/365 | Friday, December 10, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Community

Picture You | What I Love | Self Portrait 

I love looking at art with my best friend!  We took a trip to Richmond with our husbands to see the Ansel Adams exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.  Here we are with one of Ansel Adams' prints of Half Dome.  Photo credit to my husband.

 

 

 

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343/365 |  Thursday, December 9, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Competent

Picture You | What I Love | Guest Prompt

I am fairly competent at both wrapping gifts and decorating Christmas trees.

 

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342/365 | Wednesday, December 8, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Forward-looking

Picture You | What I Love | Where I Stand

Well, it's Wednesday so where I stand is on the lanes at the bowling alley looking forward and contemplating how to get my ball to knock down all of the pins.

 

 

 

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341/365 |  Tuesday, December 7, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Couple

Picture You | What I Love 

This one took some thought and preparation. After losing twelve days or so being sick, I feel like I am so far behind on my Christmas preparations.  I was finally able to get my Nativity set out.  Here are Joseph and Mary, an iconic Christmas couple.

 

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340/365 | Monday, December 6, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Glitter

Picture You | What I Love 

I have some new outdoor Christmas decorations, and I was excited to try to get a picture with them.  I tried earlier in the week, and the pictures didn't turn out very good.  I was getting home pretty late every night, and it was cold.  I put it off until Friday, eagerly waiting for the lights to come on and for it to start getting dark.  Well, I got everything set up and took two pictures.  Then it started raining!  So this is as good as it gets.

 

 

 

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339/365 | Sunday, December 5, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Amazing  

Picture You | What I Love 

It felt amazing to be back at church today after being sick for close to two weeks!  I love that the Advent decorations are starting to appear!

 

 

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338/365 | Saturday, December 4, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Prompt Free

Here are two pictures from the recent trip to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.  I like them both equally and couldn't choose between them.

The first is a Faberge egg from Russia.  I believe it was a gift from Tsar Nicholas II to his wife.

 The second is a display of Tiffany lamps.

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337/365 |  Friday, December 3, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Gracious

Picture More | Framing 

This is a mosaic of the seasons that is in the Virginia Museum of  Fine Arts.  I tried to frame the autumn panel.

 

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336/365 | Thursday, December 2, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Candle

Picture More | Framing

My Christmas candle centerpiece.  I think I take a picture of this every year.

 

 

 

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335/365 |  Wednesday, December 1, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Sweater

Picture More | Framing 

My aunt made these washcloths/dishcloths for me recently.  There's a Christmas themed one, and she knows that I like purple so she made me a couple of purple ones too.  Many years ago she tried to teach me to knit, but I never got the hang of it.

 

 

 

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334/365 | Tuesday, November 30, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Stillness

For several days, including today, this is how I spent most of the day - sleeping on the sofa.  I often had the phone, a bottle of water, and either ginger ale or Gatorade next to me.

 

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333/365 | Monday, November 29, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Odd

Picture More | Framing

There are simply an odd number of objects in this display of two chairs designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and one of his stained glass windows.  Taken at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

 

 

 

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331/365 | Saturday, November 27, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Treat

Picture Color | Rainbow | Scavenger Hunt

This took me a long time to finish because the day fell on one of the early days when I was falling ill (and was out of commission for nearly two weeks).  I had already taken nearly all of the pictures but between being sick, keeping up with current photo posts, and getting ready for Christmas, I had very little time to organize the pictures and make the collage.  I finally had time to put it all together.  Lately, I've been using Canva to make collages because I have found it to be easier to work with than Lightroom.

Red: Lego-themed candles on my son's birthday French silk pie

Orange: Showing my alma mater's colors for the big game against our in state rival

Yellow: My son's new Hufflepuff Lego creation

Green: My Lego advent wreath

ROYGBIV: My favorite fuzzy scarf

Blue: Cavman is blue because we lost the big game

Purple: Some decorative flowers I have in my dining room

White: My Cabbage Patch doll

Pink: A Care Bear

 

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330/365 | Friday, November 26, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Imagination

Picture Color | Rainbow

While wrapping Christmas presents, I also wrapped an early birthday gift for my friend, and I realized that the dots are a rainbow of colors.

 

 

 

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329/365 | Thursday, November 25, 2021 | #365PictureToday

11 o'clock

Picture Color | Rainbow | Picture Time 

I know it's nowhere near rainbow colored, but at eleven o'clock on Thanksgiving Day, I was making this gluten free cauliflower gratin.

 

 

 

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328/365 | Wednesday, November 24, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Self-motivation

Picture Color | Rainbow 

This week I have been noticing a lot of things that I have that come in a rainbow of colors. The other night I realized that my car collection has nearly all of the colors of a rainbow!  A couple of things that motivate me are to learn new photography techniques and features on my camera and hoping to bring a little bit of joy to someone else with my photographs.

 

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327/365 | Tuesday, November 24, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Joy

Picture Color | Rainbow 

Brightly colored pens give me joy.  So much so that I apparently bought two packages of these gel pens.  I even rearranged one of them so that they more closely matched the proper sequence of a rainbow.

 

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326/365 | Monday, November 22, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Hard

Picture Color | Rainbow

One of the first things I thought of for rainbow week was my collection of marbles.  So here they are.

 

 

 

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325/365 | Sunday, November 21, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Radiant

Picture Color | Rainbow 

The communion table at church had a rainbow of colors on it spilling from the cornucopia in honor of Thanksgiving.  "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow.  They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these." ~Mark 6:28-29

 

 

 

 

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 324/365 | Saturday, November 20, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Locks

Picture Style | Night

I had a different idea for this picture, but I can't find the lock I wanted to use.  Instead here is the lock to the most used door in our house.  It's a Unican door lock, and we never need a key.

 

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323/365 | Friday, November 19, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Music

Picture Style | Night 

I'm just listening to some music in my home office while I post pictures, send emails, and write church newsletter articles.

 

 

 

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322/365 | Thursday, November 18, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Moon

Picture Style | Night 

This is my first really good picture of the moon.  I don't think I had ever really thought about how fast the moon is moving or how bright it actually is so my setting were always off.  The November full moon is called the Beaver Moon.  According to the Old Farmers Almanac website it is the time when beavers finished preparations for winter and retreated into their lodges.  Settings: ISO 100, f/5.6, 1/250 second.

 

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321/365 | Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Simple

Picture Style | Night 

I originally had a different thought for this picture but decided that it might not be a wise idea to try to set up my tripod on the side of a country road in the dark.  Instead, I just went with a simple still life in my dark dining room.

 

 

 

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320/365 | Tuesday, November 16, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Prompt Free

This isn't a night picture, but the maple tree in our yard is stunning during the golden hour light today, and it's probably not going to have its leaves for much longer.

 

365 Picture Today Post

319/365 | Monday, November 15, 2021 | #365PictureToday

Vintage

Picture Style | Night

I was looking forward to attempting the light painting technique that was described, but unfortunately I forgot my flashlight.  Rainy weather was preparing to begin so I just upped the ISO and used a low aperture to get enough light for this picture.  This is the office for the Christian school that is a ministry of my church.  ISO: 1600, F-stop: f/4, Exposure: 4 seconds.