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Petunias in my mother in law's greenhouse.

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Monkey see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, pinot evil?

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Donald

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A glimpse into my everyday life...at least my work week life!

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Not much time for pictures again today, so you get another one of Thug the pug. He likes to grab his toys and crawl around the den on his belly. Always good for a laugh!

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Not much time for pictures today, so here's a part of my everyday life. The dog loves carrots and will do almost anything to get one. Think he's excited?

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Berries, not sure what kind.

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I have three camellia bushes in the front yard. They bloom in the winter and are just about to burst.

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A starburst on a tree at work.

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I was trying to take a picture of the sun setting behind a pond near one of my schools. This is the best out of all the pictures I took. There is still so much I don't understand about camera settings. It is frustrating at times.

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Chandelier in the dining room. Don't look at the dust.

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Snow in Raleigh today! Donald and I took a walk to the lake. The woods were absolutely beautiful and so peaceful. I really liked how snow lined all the branches in the trees. If you look closely, you can see snowflakes coming down in the picture.

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Still playing around with aperture settings and DOF.

Eventually I will have the most well fed squirrels in the neighborhood.

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My latest attempt to keep the squirrel away from the bird feeder.

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Dottie's best friend Arianna is visiting and brought her cello. We gave it a photo shoot.

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Turkey vultures roost in the trees at work. I was really too far away to get a good shot, but love the way the wings are spread.

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We ordered Chinese for supper tonight. Here is my fortune. Pretty funny considering I'm not a man! I am, however, happy.

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Some days I don't get a chance to go outside and take pictures. By the time I got home from work today, it was too cold to go out. That means finding interesting things inside. Here are the stairs in our house.

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Who couldn't love a face like this? He was trying to figure out what Donald was doing in the kitchen.

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I spent part of my lunch hour today taking pictures in the courtyard at school. At this time of year everything is dull and brown. Then I saw this pretty yellow grass, so that is the subject of today's photo. I love the curl.

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This tree had fallen across the ditch in our backyard. I was trying to show the line of the tree across the ditch, but just couldn't get the angle right.

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Jan. 10, 2009: I was delighted to see the bluebirds in our homemade birdbath this afternoon. I couldn't tell the other bird was a yellow finch until I downloaded to the computer. For the first time, I took the camera off auto ISO and set it to 400. Still trying to understand how all these settings work together.

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For today's picture, I was trying to learn how to use shutter speed effectively. I set it as high as I could and then took the picture. I have no idea how long it was, and this is not the best picture, but I'm happy with it.

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Same blue fish as yesterday, but at night this time with icicle lights in the background.

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One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

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The onion experiment.

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Jan. 5, 2009: I went back to work today and almost let the day slip by without taking a picture. I saw the sun setting on my way home and stopped to take a few pictures. I'm not happy with anything I took, but it is what it is. I also need to learn photoshop to get rid of the power line.

Jan. 4

Big Tree, Small Waterfall
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Big Tree, Small Waterfall

Jan. 3

I went for a walk around the block today thinking I might find some interesting things to take pictures of. What I found was a stand of baby pine trees. I also created a new rule for myself. From here on out, all pictures must be taken with manual settings. I will never learn how to use them if I don't go for it. Aperture was set at f14 for this one.

Jan. 2

What the wagon is used for since the girls have grown up.

Jan. 1

I read a blog this morning about creating a photo journal, where you take a photo a day for a year. I thought this was a great idea, so here goes. Let's see if I stick with it. Today's picture:

It is very cold outside, it was 22 this morning when I got up at 6. Donald and I took a ride to the lake to start this project. My idea was to take some great landscape shots to start the year. Then, when we got home, we decided it was cold enough to build a fire. Donald had to split some wood first. I thought this was more fitting for today's photo, since this is a representation of our everyday life.