Project 365 is over!

I did it!  I finished!    Last year I decided to join a fellow Yaya in doing this "Project 365".   I'm not a photography hobbyist but thought it'd be an interesting way to look at my year when I was done......which it is!    Plus I LOVE doing stuff with my Ya's!    You can read about the start of the project for me here.

This year all four of us Yaya's are gonna do a photo project but not a picture a day.  I couldn't handle that again!  :)     Instead we have picked theme's for each week of the year and will take pics according to the theme.   Our first week's theme is "Doors/Doorways".   I haven't "found" my pic of the week yet but have some idea's.  

Here's to another year of camera carrying and clicking!

Kingston Christmas Decor

All the light posts in Kingston are decorated like this for Christmas. Simple and pretty.
I took this one outside of the quilt store after work today. Decided it was gonna be my "picture of the day" for the 365 project. It was photo number 332! I can't believe I am only 33 photos away from being done.

Random 365

271 days ago I started a project that I can't believe I'm still doing! Taking a photo a day for a whole year. One a day. Every day. Pretty hard for this gal. I thought I'd share some of the photo's I took recently.....just for fun.....and since I couldn't think of anything else to blog about! LOL!

This is Lars. He was a "customer" at the quilt shop this week when I was working. It has become a challenge for me taking pictures at work. I'm not too good at being creative so I end up taking pics of quilts or fabric. But once Lars rambled in and I saw those green eyes, I knew he'd be my pic of the day. Mr. Cutie-Pie.

At a tea shop buying tea for my daughters birthday party. She's gonna be 28 this year. Can hardly believe it. I'll be giving her a shout out later when it's her real birthday day.

Hubby and I went to see Wicked in Seattle. Couldn't get a pic of the marquee cuz it was raining so I had to take it of the program. It was our first trip to the Paramount Theatre. Such a beautiful place. I tried taking pics of the theatre but nothing I took did the place justice.




And finally a picture of the season. These are "liberty" apples from our tree. The tree is loaded this year. Not sure if I can even give away this many. :)

That's it for now. Only 94 days to go! :)

Random 365 Pictures

I have been participating in the 365 Project, as I mentioned in an earlier post.  Have to say, I'm not doing too badly!   I do forget occasionally and have to quick take a pic of something from the day before I go to bed....or I'm setting up a picture like a still life cuz I forgot to take one while out.   But I am pleased with myself that I've managed for nearly 2 months now.   Here are a few random pics from the past two weeks.

Do you know what kind of fruit this is?   Its called "Cherimoya" and we saw it for the first time this morning.  The produce manager gave us a taste and hubby had to bring one home.  Kinda tasted like a combo of banana and mango or maybe banana and papaya...definitely banana in there.  

 We were hit with snow again this week.  This time it didn't stick around too long...but enough for me to click this pic of our cat's little paw print. 

We have an old fashioned hand crank coffee grinder.  One morning during a visit, Liam ground our morning coffee.  Such concentration!  
You can see all my 365 Project pictures at my Picasa site.  

My Week in Pictures

So...another week gone by and I actually managed to get photo's each day. Some times it was an "after the fact" kind of thing cuz I'd forget. Funny how you can carry your camera around all day and forget to take it out and use it. I guess that's what happens to us non-photographers. LOL!

On most Mondays I volunteer in my church's office. Reception work. One of my favorite jobs is doing the weekly kids Sunday school materials. I like staying busy and this is a good job for that.

Tuesday we had a company come and inspect our duct work system. Our local power company offers this program to mobile home owners for free. They sealed all the duct opening joints and put in a new crossover thingy....we are getting lots more heat IN the house now than before. Apparently we were doing a nice job of heating the underside of the house. Sigh. No wonder the cats enjoy sleeping under there.
Wednesday was movie day with Tink and other ladies from our church. Bride Wars was a nice chick flick. Funny and poignant too. Loved it.

Thursday I went to lunch with Carol, a fellow Red Hatter. We went to Port Townsend...fun town to do a bit of window shopping.

And Friday I re-joined Curves. I haven't been good about regular exercise....and though I have some equipment here at the house, I find its too easy to make excuses. And I realized I really prefer having company. I loved my years at Curves, so I'm going back. Here's to getting back on track!

Last Week in Pictures

I saw on a friends Facebook page a link to "Project 365 How To Take A Photo A Day And See Your Life In A Whole New Way" . It sounded like an interesting way to chronicle a year. Gosh, I wonder if I could even remember to take a picture a day for an entire year, not to mention the discipline to bring my camera every where. I could try. Even if I only managed it for a couple of months, it would be more days recorded than if I did nothing. Better to try and fail than to not try at all, right? Isn’t there some famous quote along those lines? So I give you my last week (M-F) of pics.

Monday – our dvr broke! No recording shows, no pausing live tv, no rewinding to hear fun dialog again...err! Tech support was no help…they expect us to wait while the “engineers” handle the problem. Sigh, the problem is the silly thing is broke!
Tuesday – I had a Red Hat luncheon today. Nice company, as usual, but not a great lunch. Hit Costco afterwards and on a lark bought myself a wireless printer. So much fun.

Wed – My visit to a new Naturopath. Time to address these hormonal changes! (PS. Called tech support again about my still not working dvr…they listened this time and are sending a new one…duh)

Thursday – Sewing with the Knotty Girls. I only have a few more of Liam's Cowboy blocks left to do. Aren't those fabrics cute?

Friday – Yaya Day! My favorite day of the month. It was suppose to be at my house but our water company did a last minute (meaning they didn’t tell us till the night before) flushing of lines which meant no water which meant we had to change Yaya day to a different house. Thanks, Tink! Yaya day always mean good food...and too much of it!

Not sure if I’ll regularly post the pics here but it does provide a little bit of incentive and accountability if I tell myself I want to blog the pics. We shall see how it goes.