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31 Days of Gratefulness

I suppose this is akin to my Best Moments of the Week lists, but a blogger at Bless Her Heart posted about here 30 days of a grateful heart and it sounded like a good idea.

I’ve been posting one thing a day over on Facebook, but I figured I’d collect them here for posterity [...]

2011 – In Review

First, the Internet is a wonderful thing. Every year, since 2003, I create a CD that was a compilation of my favorite music of that year, things that I listened to obsessively, songs that plucked my heartstrings, each instilled with moments and memories. I present to you this years offering via Spotify:
Quixotic Dichotomies – 2011

Things that [...]

Sky Plus

I was messing around with my new copies of Photoshop and Photomatix and went out to shoot some pictures of the cloudy sky one day to test out the HDR.

It’s not amazing, but it’s still pretty fun.

Certainly makes my boring pasture a little more double plus than it actually [...]

Whizzerville Tree II

This tree is about 15 minutes from my house (which, by all standards is not very far out here) and I am just totally in love with it.

I’ve taken pictures of it before, but I keep coming back to it. Last month, I had a eureka moment when I thought about capturing the moon setting [...]

Weather

A few weeks ago we finally had a couple of storm systems move through. Most of them didn’t produce much rain, less than a quarter inch in most cases and very hit or miss. We watched the radar as one big storm split in two and went right around us – so disheartening when we are [...]

Best Moments of the Week – 10/10

- Sunrise farm.
- Listening to Sun Kil Moon to chill me out.
- Winning an auction at the local VFD BBQ for my hubsand of a ride in the commissioner’s 1941 Stearman biplane.
- Predawn light, silhouetting the pine trees.
- Flourless chocolate cake with a fireman’s hat.

- Having thunderstorms most of the afternoon and milking the cow in [...]

Updates – The Long Version

It’s been so busy around here that I haven’t had time for a proper update in some time. My to do lists are never-ending, I just hope that I can get a few things checked off my list per day so I don’t feel so behind. Everything is going well, but it’s been a steady flow, [...]

Sunset

My friend Sam came by today to show me how to make baguettes and croissants. We also made Smitten Kitchen’s really awesome chocolate red wine cake (which you should REALLY try, especially with that marscapone cheese icing – holy crap!).

As we were cleaning up, I looked outside to see the sun setting through the trees [...]

Mantis

The last day I was in Utah, I took some shots of a little praying mantis sitting on the hummingbird feeder. Not even a few days before, Hubs sent me an incredulous text message with a picture about how there was a praying mantis on our hummingbird feeder at home who had speared and was eating [...]

Sister of Night

I’ve had a headache all week – I think it’s a pinched nerve. It woke me up this morning at 4:30 and I couldn’t get back to sleep. No sense wasting the time, I grabbed my camera with my new tripod and got to shooting.

The moon has been teasing me this last month, either thwarting [...]