Sunday Stills : The Color Red

This is a little playhouse we pass on the way to town..I call them "wonky" houses..there are lots of them lined up for sale..but this is the only red one. Garden Sheds/Playhouses/ Big Dog Houses?? Who knows..this guy does have an imagination!

How about some Red Roses! Check out more red stuff at Sunday Stills!

Happy Easter everyone! :)

Ellipsis Monday Photo Shoot #32: Spring Holidays

Carly at Ellipsis said ..show me something from Easter or a spring holiday. I chose Easter and that always includes Easter Lilies! Happy Easter to all on Sunday, April 12, 2009. :)

Bloggers Community Photo Challenge : Spring

This is my entry for The Bloggers Community Photo Challenge: First Sign of Spring. I had to look real hard but then some snow melted and the dumb Daylilies started to poke up out of their leaf duff. They will be frozen many times yet.. but they will still bloom next July. I took this photograph this afternoon April 07, 2009 and if you couldn't tell by the snow..I live in Minnesota..where spring has not quite sprung yet :) Click on the photo to enlarge it!

Sunday Stills : Animals of Husbandry

The Sunday Stills Challenge this week was Animals of Husbandry. Photographing baby pigs was a new experience for me. The heat lamp cast a golden glow that was really picked up by the lighter colored pigs. I had to use a flash because it was dark in the hog barn.

These cute little guys are ten days old.

These guys are a little older, I believe they were about eight weeks old...pigs grow really fast!

After being in the hog barn for a while my lens fogged up and I got some obnoxious spots in my photos, I was able to crop out most of them. However there are still some in the upper left hand corner of this photo. I had been outside for quite a long time with my camera, and it was only about 20 degrees outside.

More rainbow pigs!

Can anyone say BACON! Or Hog Roast! Thanks to our neighbors for allowing me into their farrowing barn! :)

Round Robin Photo Challenge : By The Numbers

Chocolate Yummy Numbers
Gassy Numbers

Numbers I wish I knew!

This weeks Round Robin Challenge was a suggestion by Jill at South Bay Soliloquy...By The Numbers. I am off to see what the other Robins found:)

Ellipsis Monday Photo Shoot #31: Footprints

How much longer must I wear my snow boots?

Here are my footprint photos, I took them in the Walmart parking lot on Wednesday April 01, 2009. Yes, some are slushy..some are snowy..it was no April Fools Joke either. Thank you Carly at Ellipsis for hosting this challenge. The question this week: Which do you find more challenging to photograph..children or animals. Animals..especially wild ones..I try my best. Kids I can usually bribe with cookies! :)

A - Z Photo Challenge : Y is for Yellow Sunflowers

I have been searching for the perfect Y photo..I had some ideas ..then we had a snow storm and I had to stay close to home. So I went to my July 2008 archives for this one..it is more cheerful than my snowy photograph would have been anyway. Martha at Menagerie hosts this challenge! :)