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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.