May 4, 2009

• It is MAY???....how did THAT happen? 

  First of all I want to thank any of you who voted on the liveinmycamera weekly photo contest.  Didn't I go and tie for first place along with Kathleen.  Yay!!!!!  Congratulations Kathleen!
  
  
  I've said this before but here I go again.....when the new assignment comes out it is just like a treasure hunt, trying to look for and find photo opportunities for that week's topic.  You do not have to have a fancy camera at all...just follow your instincts and look for that shot...or make that shot happen.  But the point I am trying to make is that it is a nice challenge...for me anyway.  Anyone can enter and the more the merrier.    This upcoming week's assignment is Motion.....it should be very interesting.  I know I had fun with it.
  *EDIT*  The new pictures will be up Monday by noon EST.  The subject is MOTION.
  Ooooo...they are going to be good!
  
  
  Through someone here on Xanga, Kelli, I think it was you, I found a video of a young gal, Deborah Drapper,  in England who is so wise for her age and such a delight.  You can see the video here and this is the link to her blog.  She is an encouragement to me and I hope she is for you too. 
  
  Now, finding the time to do everything...how does one do that?  My garden is screaming for me to pay some attention to it and I gently holler back..."I AM TRYING!!!" 
  There are some new herbs to plant and some pretty little flowers to put into containers and such.  This week looks like rain all week but I will try to get in there between the rain drops.  The guys have been trying to squeeze fishing in too.  This is my husband's therapy after some long hard days at work and some other pressures of life.  It usually de-stresses him and he comes home a little lighter.  He can spend quiet time talking with the Lord and just "be."  Like father like son, as Will does the same thing.  They do not get to go a lot but are very blessed to have some great fishing spots near to our home.  They throw everything back....very gentle to the fishies....they never use barbs.
  Often, they don't catch anything...it is just the being out in the woods or by the stream listening to all of nature.  Last evening my husband said there were so many different birds singing at once that he could not even distinguish any one bird's song. 
  I guess that moment may not have been too relaxing! 
  
  I've got a question.  I am in the market for a sewing machine and fell for one and wondered if any of you sewers out there might be able to share opinions about this one or if you have one, what do you think?  It is a Elna Q6600.  I know Elna is Swiss made and recently owned now by Janome.  My daughter has a Janome which she loves but this Elna has stitches on it that no one else has or can share.  It is not high end quilting which is fine with me.  I just want to make things and create new things from old things.  Any comments regarding this are most welcome! 
  
  Sad, sad news from my garden..I almost forgot to mention this.  I was weeding a bit on the outside edge of my garden fence and just about grabbed hold of and actually touched...the tail of a snake!    Good grief! What was THAT doing there???  I'll tell you what it was doing....it was eating Francis, my garden toad!!!  It was too late to save him...he was 1/4 of the way in the snake's mouth and bleeding.  So I did all I could do...I got my camera. It sure did not take long for that snake to ....what do you call that...he wasn't chewing....ummmmm....swallowing maybe???  I have never seen this in person so I watched.  I have a fantastic picture but not sure you all want to actually see it?  Will was kind enough to scoop the snake up for me and relocate it across the road into some woods.  He can go eat someone elses' toads!  To my knowledge it was a garter snake...but unlike any I have seen around before.  There was one suggestion to chop it's head off and I for a moment considered it thinking...well...will Francis then pop out?  But..on further pondering thought that absurd and perhaps I watched too many cartoons when I was little. 
  So....the snake is alive and well and Francis provided him nourishment just as the Lord intended. 
  
  Till next time......
  

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