I Spy #98

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Each week Lysha at A Camera and a Cookbook shares a set of prompts for photos. On Saturday she invites participants to share their photos in the I Spy 2022 linkup. This was an interesting week, as my husband and I are staying in a hotel as he started his new job and I've been working on finding us a place to live. Enjoy this week's photos!

 

- Lock - Getting pretty familiar with this lock here at the hotel . . .

- Spot in Town (quarterly) - I KNEW this would happen. I even thought about grabbing a photo of the little church in Uniontown over a week ago because I figured this quarterly prompt would be coming up soon, but I didn't. And I wasn't in Maryland at all this week so couldn't get a current photo. Enjoy a review of the previous quarters, and if I get a chance on our Thanksgiving trip home I'll update.

Edited to add the current Spot In Town photo:

  

 - Body Parts - I helped my granddaughter put together a sticker mosaic. It's kind of like a paint-by-number, with many little numbered stickers to put on the outline of the animal. She was very careful to do the fins and tail (body parts!) first on this shark.

 - In The Dark - Just before the start of the game!

- Your Choice - we were house hunting (apartment hunting? townhome hunting?) all of this week, looking for a place in Ohio to call home for now. This model townhome was the winner, largely due to its kitchen which has way more cupboard and counter space than any of the others we viewed. And it isn't like this kitchen has a ton of counter acreage either, but believe me, it's double the amount in any other available rental unit we saw! Do renters in Ohio not use their kitchens? Anyway, wish us luck - I'm finishing up the application for this place today.

iSpy 2022 is hosted by Lysha at A Camera and a Cookbook. The idea is to challenge yourself to step out of your comfort zone and do something different with your photos. Anyone can participate by taking five new photos during the week that fit the prompts. Link up during the week and have fun! 

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I Spy #67

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Each week Lysha at A Camera and a Cookbook shares a set of prompts for photos. On Saturday she invites participants to share their photos in the I Spy 2022 linkup. Here's my photos for the week! I kept forgetting to take photos this week, so I wound up being a bit creative with a couple of these prompts.

- Work Space (quarterly)  - I am on spring break from the two co-ops where I teach. so my workspace is at home. I've started moving some of my school things downstairs to my desk in that room, but I'm reluctant to set everything up and fill up the desk until after we've had the floors done. 

- Out of the Blue - These two photos aren't very clear since they were taken through my screen window, but finally - out of the blue! - the goldfinches have decided to visit my feeder! The blue jay was an out of the blue visitor starting a couple of weeks ago, and since he is actually blue I've included his photo as well.

- Starts with B - today we went to a Hershey Bears hockey game!

- Apple - 

- Your Choice - I made this bird feeder shot black and white because I liked the way the birds were perched all in a row down the one side of the feeder.

Happy Resurrection Day!

iSpy 2022 is hosted by Lysha at A Camera and a Cookbook. The idea is to challenge yourself to step out of your comfort zone and do something different with your photos. Anyone can participate by taking five new photos during the week that fit the prompts. Link up during the week and have fun! 

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I Spy #49

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Each week Lysha at A Camera and a Cookbook shares a set of prompts for photos. On Saturday she invites participants to share their photos in the I Spy 2021 linkup. It was tempting to just take pictures of my Christmas tree for every prompt this week, but I branched out! 

- sparkles - I have these snowflakes as accents on my tree. They add some extra sparkle, but it's hard to capture in a photo!

- starts with J - a couple of the hubster's hockey jerseys

- lit - The artwork in the dome of the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mount Saint Mary's University is softly illuminated.

- used - I struggled with this prompt. We have a lot of used stuff at our house, but none of it seemed appropriate for a photo! This afternoon it hit me while I was dusting downstairs. My beautiful, beat-up, upright grand piano is well-used. Lester was very used when we got him, but I had him repaired and tuned and he has served us well for the past twenty-two years or so. And as far as we can tell, he didn't suffer any damage in our flood! 

- your choice - just a simple photo of the organ loft at the Chapel.

iSpy 2021 is hosted by Lysha at A Camera and a Cookbook. The idea is to challenge yourself to step out of your comfort zone and do something different with your photos. Anyone can participate by taking five new photos during the week that fit the prompts. Link up during the week and have fun! 

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I Spy #27

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Each week Lysha at A Camera and a Cookbook shares a set of prompts for photos. On Saturday she invites participants to share their photos in the I Spy 2021 linkup. I thought these prompts would be quite easy, so it was a bit of a surprise to me that a couple of them presented a bit of a challenge.

- loud - we've had a few opportunities to enjoy fireworks up close over the past couple weeks, and they sure were loud! This week we went to a small town carnival that does a wonderful fireworks show, and the midway was also loud with the rides, music, and excitement.

- cup - this was my coffee cup of choice while watching hockey one night. The night the Stanley Cup was won and presented, in fact.

- floating - I had a little trouble with this prompt, because we don't have a pool and our pond is so full of cattails and surrounded by bamboo that there's no room for anything to float in it. Perhaps I should have walked down to the creek and watched. It was just this afternoon that I noticed a leaf floating in the birdbath.

- open - the creative openwork in the leaves of the Monstera plant.

- your choice -

iSpy 2021 is hosted by Lysha at A Camera and a Cookbook. The idea is to challenge yourself to step out of your comfort zone and do something different with your photos. Anyone can participate by taking five new photos during the week that fit the prompts. Link up during the week and have fun! 

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February Photo Album

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February is a short month, but even so, it seems like there are far fewer photos in my monthly stash than expected. I guess I really didn't take pictures that often this month. Still it's rather sweet to look back on the happenings of the month that's almost over.

Early in the month, we finally followed through on our plans to get a group together from church and attend a Hershey Bears hockey game. I even remembered to get our church name up on the jumbotron.

We had about twenty people - our family and a few other families from church.

Good game, and a Bears win!

This is actually one of Kennady's photos of my cat. We finally got Kennady a new phone - her old one had a lot of small cracks in the screen but we'd been procrastinating about replacing it. Well, at the hockey game the touch screen stopped working except for a narrow strip down the center. So the next day it was top priority to go get the new phone. She was so impressed by the camera quality as she was testing it out at home, and insisted that I have this beautiful close-up of Merida.

New travel mug from my Secret Sister

 Didn't happen on Valentine's Day, but there was actually an occasion when the hubster and I were the only ones home for dinner! I figured we'd better have candlelight! LOL

It was unlucky that we had a flat tire on our way home from college and work one day. But it was lucky that it happened when I was driving (rather than when Kennady was driving), and it was during the day in a safe, populated place where it was easy to pull over and wait for help. It put us behind schedule that day and was a bit frustrating, but really only a minor inconvenience, all things considered.

On Valentine's Day it was just me and the hubster, and Kennady and her boyfriend home for dinner. Dinner was delicious - homemade lasagna - and the dessert was a rich chocolate cake. 

Kennady's boyfriend brought her flowers - very sweet!

The kids were all helping out with food sales at a local homeshow, which was part of a fundraiser for our church to send kids to camp. They had fun, and the food was good too.

Kennady and Meaghan

The hubster and I did a little shopping after that homeshow, and found these costume onesies on clearance. Couldn't resist buying them for the kids, and these are probably my favorite photos of the month! 

Big news of the month! Landon proposed to Meaghan, and she said Yes!! The wedding is planned for next spring, but they got started planning right away. Kennady will be the Maid of Honor.

 Remember way back at the beginning of the month, when the Groundhog predicted an early spring? Looks like he was right - the daffodils have been coming up all around our place, and there are plenty of signs of an early spring. It's certainly been very mild for February.

February is the border between winter and spring. 

~Terri Guillemets, "Years," 2002

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