2022 365 Picture Today Post

212/365 | Sunday, July 31, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Victorious

Picture Color | Yellow 

I noticed this morning as I was preparing to serve as worship leader at church that the communion table was decorated with yellow straw and wheat.  The reason for this is that we have partnered with other local churches from our denomination to support a ministry called Growing Hope Globally by sponsoring a project in Guatemala.  In order to help fund this project we had wheat planted in a field adjacent to our church.  The wheat was recently harvested and sold, hence the wheat and straw at church today.  "So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God." ~Luke 12:21

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

211/365 | Saturday, July 30, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Joy

Reading gives me lots of joy, especially when I can relax on the weekends with a good book.  Here are a few selections that I am currently reading.

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

210/365 | Friday, July 29, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Curious

Picture Style | Double Exposure 

I had an appointment with my retina specialist today; I have a freckle on my retina that needs to be monitored yearly.  That gave me the idea to try to photograph my eye. (Not as easy as it sounds.  Autofocus doesn't seem to want to work, and even when I think I have it in focus manually, I apparently don't.)  Then I thought that it would be fun to superimpose a globe over my eye since I am curious about the world and love to travel.  My accomplishments aren't as stellar as some people I know, but I have been to 46 states, 7 Canadian provinces, 3 or 4 Mexican states, the Bahamas, Spain, and Morocco.  And the globe is a travel memory in itself because we purchased it in Alaska.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

209/365 | Thursday, July 28, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Cheery

Taking a break from double exposures.  These are more volunteer plants that are blooming in my yard.  I don't remember planting them, but it's possible that my mom did and I just don't remember.  In any event, I don't even know what they are, but they are a cheery sight out my bedroom sliding glass door.

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

208/365 | Wednesday, July 27, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Magic

Picture Style | Double Exposure

Just the magic of the bowling alley on a Wednesday during summer league.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

207/365 | Tuesday, July 26, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Faith

Picture Style | Double Exposure 

Today is my husband's birthday so I tried to combine a picture that I took of him on a hike on Skyline Drive probably close to 30 years ago with the message board that I left for him today.  I have faith that he will be around the celebrate many more birthdays.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

206/365 | Monday, July 27, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Dominate

Picture Style | Double Exposure 

I wanted to superimpose my dad's Air Force picture over an American flag.  I think it worked successfully.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

205/365 | Sunday, July 24, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Welcome

Picture Style | Double Exposure 

I actually had an idea for this that worked.  I combined a picture of the welcome screen from church this morning with the welcome sign outside our door. "After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?' " ~1 Kings 19: 12-13

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

204/365 | Saturday, July 23, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Spirit

Picture You | What I do | Scavenger Hunt 

I really dread the scavenger hunt prompts.  Taking one picture a day is sometimes a challenge for me, let alone nine.  Then there's the whole ordeal of making the collage with nine photos.  I think I need to remember to take them all in landscape format since the vertical ones don't format right in a grid.  Part of the way through taking pictures I tried going with a theme of using UVA gear, which worked well, because of the school spirit involved.  I didn't feel like going back and trying to find UVA themed objects for the other three pictures.

 

Round: UVA basketball

Colorful: Fresh veggies from the garden; they feed the spirit

Soft: Our cat Ripley, who is very spirited

Small: Earrings

With polka dots: A heart-shaped dish

Vintage: CavMan; the Cavalier has been UVA's mascot since 1925

Delicious: A UVA cookie jar and a cookie from Crumbl

Sparkly: My sparkliest UVA shirt

With words: A t-shirt showing the whole NCAA bracket to celebrate UVA's championship in 2019 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

203/365 | Friday, July 22, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Affirmative

Picture You | What I do | Picture My Hands 

I was recently gifted some jewelry that had belonged to my grandmother who passed away in 2019.  Since she and I shared the same birth month all of the jewelry contains our birthstone - topaz.  This ring is one of the pieces that I look forward to wearing.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

202/365 | Thursday, July 21, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Enjoy

Guest Prompt | What I do

It's been hot here (not Texas hot mind you, just in the 90s).  One of the things I do when it's hot is have some ice cream, preferably chocolate.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

201/365 | Wednesday, July 20, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Prompt Free

Picture You | What I do

It's Wednesday, so that means bowling.

 

 

 

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200/365 | Tuesday, July 19, 2022| #365PictureToday

O P

Picture You | What I do | Picture the Alphabet 

Today I put up my summer wreath, which conveniently looks like an O and contains lots of my favorite color purple.  P is for my son Preston and is found on a Preston Trucking patch ("the 151 line") that we found when he was little.  Today it marks his mailbox bin at our house.

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

199/365 | Monday, July 18, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Alluring

Picture You | What I do | Macro Monday 

I went to the gym today, which is definitely one of the things I regularly do that makes me me.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

198/365 | Sunday, July 17, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Learned

Picture You | What I do | Sunday Selfie 

Being a lifelong learner to me means learning about lots of new things through reading.  I try to keep non-fiction books in my reading rotation along with fiction.  Even some of the historical fiction can spark research into new topics.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

197/365 | Saturday, July 16, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Well

Picture More | Toys

We spent part of the day at a friend's housewarming, and my intention was to get pictures of kids playing in the yard, but I totally forgot.  And then it started raining.  Shortly after we left their house, we noticed a stunning rainbow over Culpeper.  So here a few images of it since all is well once you see the rainbow.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

196/365 | Friday, July 15, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Soaring

Picture More | Toys 

This is Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes.  I thought he would be a good subject for today's prompt.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

195/365 | Thursday, July 14, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Lovely

Picture More | Toys 

During the summer at the math-only tutoring center where I work (Mathnasium in case you've heard of it), we like to make things fun and interesting for the students.  We do fun days, play lots of math games, and have summer camp themes for several weeks to give students a little break from their regular work.  The summer camp themes try to tie math concepts to other concepts like baking, programming, outer space, etc.  This summer I volunteered to lead two different weeks (What was I thinking?!?!).  Back in June I did two sessions on architecture and the need to understand the mathematical concept of scale.  This week I just finished two sessions on mathematical art.  On Tuesday we talked about cubism and de stijl and the kids created their own art with geometric shapes.  Today we talked about pointillism and the kids used a coordinate plane to color in a picture.  I decided to color my own version of it, and here it is.

 This is another picture I made to demonstrate pointillism.

2022 365 Picture Today Post

194/365 | Wednesday, July 13, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Powerful

Picture More | Toys 

I suppose sports equipment can be considered a toy, and these balls can be quite powerful when thrown properly so that all of the pins fall down.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

193/365 | Tuesday, July 12, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Famous

Picture More | Toys 

Harry Potter is famous (or infamous maybe) in the wizarding world.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

192/365 | Monday, July 11, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Guts

Picture More | Toys 

CavMan accompanied me to the gym this morning, and he was caught hanging out checking out the books in the little free library that's there.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

191/365 | Sunday, July 10, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Affable

Picture More | Toys 

Just some Lego minifigs having fun in the summer heat.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

190/365 | Saturday, July 9, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Glimmer

Picture Color | Silver 

This sculpture is in front of an office building near where I work.  When I saw it earlier in the week, I knew that it had to be today's picture.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

189/365 | Friday, July 8, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Mind-blowing

Picture Color | Silver 

I was driving home earlier today, pondering what I could photograph that was mind blowing, when I spotted some parachutists.  So I pulled into the local airport hoping I could maybe get a picture of one of them.  I didn't have an open view of the sky, but I finally spotted one of them.  Unfortunately by the time I got the camera ready, he had gone behind some trees.  As I sat in my car thinking about what to do, I noticed that the airport was framed in my (silver) mirror.  It's pretty mind-blowing that one can hop into a plane a few miles from my house and jump out of it with a parachute!

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

188/365 | Thursday, July 7, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Funny

Picture Color | Silver 

This was the only idea I had for something funny with silver in it.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

187/365 | Wednesday, July 6, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Lovable

Picture Color | Silver 

This is Ellie the Elephant.  Although I don't wear a lot of silver jewelry, I find this piece especially lovable.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

186/365 | Tuesday, July 5, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Growing

Picture Color | Silver

The neighbors put up a big flag nearly every year for Independence Day.  This year they happened to display it on their big silver dump truck.  I thought that was win for silver week.

 

 

 

Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day, America!

Special thanks to this man, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the greatest breakup letter 246 years ago.

 

And another (tongue-in-cheek) point of view from Unvirtuous Abbey.

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

185/365 | Monday, July 4, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Simple

Picture Color | Silver 

I thought this kind of looked like a starburst or fireworks.  Made with my "good" silver.

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

184/365 | Sunday, July 3, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Miracle

Picture Color | Silver 

It's a miracle that I was able to take this picture today.  The sermon at church was on John 15: 1-11, and I remembered that I had this curio and thought it was gray, which I thought I could call close to silver.  In looking at it, it looked more greenish gray.  So I thought I would get out some silver goblets that we received for our wedding to go with it.  They were quite tarnished, and I couldn't find any silver polish.  I had to pick some up at the grocery store and then clean them up.  So here I present to you my miracle picture for the day.  "I am the vine; you are the branches." ~John 15-5a

 

 

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

183/365 | Saturday, July 2, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Stupendous

Picture Style | Long Exposure

From the archives.  Last year on the Fourth of July, my husband and I went to a baseball game and then there were fireworks afterward.  We each had a DSLR and took pictures.  I had wanted to do a post on my blog comparing some of our photos, but I never got around to it.  This is as good a time as any to do a brief comparison since I'm not sure that we'll get out to see any fireworks this year.

 

First up my husband's photo near the end of the display: ISO 800, f/5.6, 1.3 seconds

 

 Here are a couple of mine that I really liked.  ISO 1600, f/4.5, 1/160 second

ISO 1600, f/4.5, 1/250 second

In the future, I think I will definitely bring a tripod so that I can lengthen my exposure time and use a smaller aperture.

 

2022 365 Picture Today Post

182/365 | Friday, July 1, 2022 | #365PictureToday

Win

Picture Style | Long Exposure 

I wanted to try taking a long exposure picture of this Mustang moving.  After taking about 20 pictures, this was the best that I got.