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Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement

Four images. Fourth of July. Starting with………….

Fourth of July Parade with Ballerinas just before noon in a sweltering heat, a blazing sun, scorching pavement…..okay, enough descriptors.It was hot hot hot. Or should I say HOT HOT HOT. (sorry, Arrow) Today we were all practically listless. Laura and James power is back on after five days but Marlene and Donald have been without power for a whole week and hope tomorrow is the day. So the holiday took a different turn than planned as I wrote before. The evening was a challenge as I tried to shoot the sparklers with a slow shutter speed.-

and for the sparkler portion of the evening. I sure wish I realized I had brought my tripod in the back of the car.

Found it there today when loading up some groceries.

Laura was on the move with her sparkler

Erika gets her sparkler moving too.

Daddy Mark puts on a sparkler show for the kids as they watch the fireworks over the pine trees. It was a fun time and a great birthday party.

The Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement as interpreted by fellow bloggers

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July 7, 2012 | Categories: Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tags: 4th of July, ballerinas, birthday, childhood, Columbus OH, family, fireworks, night photography, Orange Township Parade, parade, photography, postaday, sparklers, travel, weekly photo challenge: movement | 30 Comments »

Weekly Photo Challenge: Close

Godmother and Goddaughter- (Lala in her Cheesecake Factory days with the tie)

More than close being “near- meaning very little space between” I was choosing based on close “as in relationship and feeling.”

Brothers toasting before a wedding.

And 100 fellow bloggers define close in photography in a variety of ways. Check some out!

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June 18, 2012 | Categories: Childhood, Wedding Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tags: bloggers, brothers, childhood, family, Godmother, photography, pingbacks, postaday, toasting, wedding, weekly photo challenge: close | 22 Comments »

Mother Daughter iPad Time

So engrossed, they don’t notice

old Grandma and her camera.

(Posted with permission from my DIL Erika.)

At Grandma Marlene’s house in Hardy, VA. The kids call us both “Froo Froos” but Grandma is self-explanatory.

June 1, 2012 | Categories: Photography | Tags: adventure, available light, black and white, Canon 5D Markii, canon 70-200mm lens, childhood, daughter, electronic devices, family, Hardy VA, iPad, kitchen, kitchen table, mother, photography, postaday, travel, vinyl tablecloth | 15 Comments »

Cowboy Ignores Sign Posted

May 31, 2012 | Categories: Photography, Pittsburgh Photos | Tags: 70-200mm lens, alley, arlington, Canon 5D, childhood, horse, humor, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh, postaday, postady, rocking horse, signage, toys, urban scene, vintage | 11 Comments »

Happy Birthday Mark

Love you, Ma

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May 26, 2012 | Categories: Family, Photography | Tags: 1976, airedale terrier, birthday, celebration, childhood, Chrysler Building, family, Ft. Knox Kentucky, Gateway Clipper Fleet, happy birthday, iPhone photography, memories, motherhood, Pittsburgh, postaday, travel, ` | 12 Comments »

Weekly Photo Challenge: Hands

Making hearts with hands.

We’re working on decorations for the Spring concert next week, drawing friends.

The theme is friendship. I’ll make a photo for each student in this third grade and thought that maybe notecards would be nice, too. Several were absent today so it was easier to fit everyone in.

How they helped me out this afternoon after the weekly photo challenge was posted: Hands. We had a lot of fun. I told them the problem of creating a heart with all of their hands. This is how they experimented with me.

They were very excited to help and try to accomplish the objective. Working together and all being part of something was a good exercise in friendship. The only part I was directing was reminding them to not let their heads get in the way so I could see their hands from the chair where I was standing. All students were engaged in learning.

Trying individual hearts

May 19, 2012 | Categories: Childhood, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tags: art, childhood, community, creativity, friendship, photography, postaday, school, spring concert, third grade, travel, weekly photo challenge: hands | 40 Comments »

They Sat on a Davenport

with antimacassars…….

Marian VanSickle married Roy Joseph Hendricks August 1939 in Durand, Illinois

This is not their wedding photo but they look like newlyweds to me.

May 13, 2012 | Categories: Childhood, Family | Tags: childhood, davenport, memories, mom, mother, Mother's Day, parents, postaday, tribute, vintage | 21 Comments »

Meeting of the Sock Monkey Minds /Solving WordPress Email Deluge!

Four sock monkeys I made, set up, waiting for the kids to come home and find them (from Easter visit to grandchildren)
When I looked at the photo, I thought of meetings, meetings, meetings…….table the motion and I move to adjourn-
Do I hear a second?

second part for my blogging friends who experienced a deluge of email in their box. See Chicago John’s public service announcement

or it could be a WordPress meeting!

Monkey 1″Hey, let’s flood people’s inboxes with a ton of emails, every time they write a comment or reply on a post”

Monkey 2 “Yes, let’s check the box for them without their realizing it so they get emails and more emails and more emails. Imagine if a blogger gets twenty comments. And then a commenter replies, or the blogger replies, too. YIKES
Multiply that cause each commenter will now receive an email. Wow, it is like a math problem. Can even get almost to infinity in an inbox!”

Monkey 3 ”We might get a ton a email ourselves over in support!”

Monkey 4 ” We had better fix this problem at WordPress NOW as our loyal bloggers and their readers are not happy!!” : – (

May 8, 2012 | Categories: Childhood, Family, photo of the day | Tags: childhood, comments, crafts, email inbox flooding, humor, photography, postaday, replies to comments, sock monkeys, stitching, toys, wordpress support | 17 Comments »

Anna, Her Best Friend, A Special Day

Just before we left for the church, Anna stood with Murphy.

He was sad he didn’t get to go in the car for a ride.

Friends and family gathered in to celebrate Anna making her First Holy Communion at St. Patrick’s, Columbus OH

I’m a proud grandma.

Just before going into the church to line up. Quiet contemplation

May 5, 2012 | Categories: Airedale Terrier, Airedale Terrier and Friend, Childhood, Family, Photography | Tags: airedale terrier, available light, cake, celebration, childhood, family, First Holy Communion, Holy Communion, photography, postaday, St. Patrick's Columbus OH, travel | 17 Comments »

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unfocused

Our family friend Ben assists my grandson Jack AKA Superman

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May 4, 2012 | Categories: Photography, Wedding Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tags: childhood, Columbus OH, Laura and James, photography, postaday, Superman, unfocused, wedding, weekly photo challenge | 22 Comments »

Weekly Photo Challenge: Two Subjects

Christmas 2009
Jack and Woody or rather Woody and Jack

You can check out fellow bloggers responses to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Two Subjects

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April 14, 2012 | Categories: Childhood, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tags: childhood, Christmas, family, photography, postaday, toy, Toy Story, toys, weekly photo challenge: two subjects, Woody | 63 Comments »

Easter Weekend

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You want to shoot a photograph with some life in it!

I learned in a workshop, photography can be exasperating. And one thing I know-

Sometimes you are an observer and sometimes you are a participant.

You can’t capture the sound of bells ringing in the sanctuary and bell tower simultaneously, a Gregorian chant, the trumpet, everyone holding a candle in the darkness and as the lights are turned up in the dark city church, late Saturday night, you long to capture the spirit, the glow .

You can’t whip out a camera and show the three out of four grandchildren racked out in the pew, or the smell of candle wax or incense or the feel of freshly blessed sprinklings. A good place to think. Mechanical limitations. The intrusion of the moment.

You are’t on assignment from a newspaper, illustrating the occasion. The grandparents have to head back home for work early Monday so we drove downtown for the Easter Vigil. It’s an early dinner at noon. Then we’ll load the cars and drive back east and south.

The thoughts of Easters growing up, the new suits, shoes and hats. Remembering those you love and who loved you the best and have gone on before. i said to my friend, “vacation flies by’ and she said

“just like life.”

I think of unconditional love. Thanks Matthew. Missed you.

April 8, 2012 | Categories: Baking, Childhood, Cooking and Eating, Family | Tags: available light, childhood, Columbus OH, family, food, memories, photo of the day, photography, sidewalk, soccer, Spring, travel | 13 Comments »

Five- A Great Age To Be- Sir John Patrick “Jack”!

Love to you on your birthday Jack. You make a great knight!

A mom made these knight tunics, helmets and lance and shields for her son's birthday party guests. WOW.

March 21, 2012 | Categories: Childhood, Family, Photography | Tags: childhood, family, five, happy birthday, Knight, March 21, photography, postaday, Superman, youtube video | 27 Comments »

Guest Bed Where I’m Sleeping – Just About Full

Anna was in her own bed as she has an early swim meet, leaving the house by 6:30 AM

A busy picture. So busy I -

transformed it to black and white due to the wild colors, stripes, patterns and conflicting light. Caught with the iPhone without a flash, just a snippet of the fun I enjoy with the grandchildren when I visit. Now the boys say they want a campout with grandma but I think it is my iPod touch they want to use to watch a cartoon. We’re in the basement guest room. Maura(3) looks around and says,”There are no windows.” That’s true, not in this room. Hope no one wakes up at 3 AM and is missing his or her own bed.

March 4, 2012 | Categories: Airedale Terrier, Childhood, Family, Photography | Tags: childhood, Columbus OH, family, guest, humor, iPhone photography, memories, photography, postaday, travel | 20 Comments »

Weekly Photo Challenge: Down

What does down mean to me? It’s something I prefer not to be.

I’m Down by the Beatles is a favorite

Down on the Corner by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

The Stars Look Down by Rush

Lots of songs with direction.

We all know plenty of people who try bring us down. One thing I know- I used to shoot a lot of single gloves and mittens on pavement, a baby shoe in the gutter, scratch-off lottery ticket, manhole covers, sidewalks that are stairs. Brides pushing the down elevator button to the lobby.

I used to hear,” I’m down with that.”

Here’s my response to the weekly photo challenge: down. Looking down at my granddaughter Anna as she’s playing in the grass at Aunt Linda and Uncle Frank’s house. I have her in focus in another image with the feet blurred but I selected this single shot for down. Original file not available so it’s a cropped screen shot from an online photo gallery I don’t use much anymore.

Here are the responses of fellow bloggers for this week’s challenge: down.

February 18, 2012 | Categories: Childhood, Family, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tags: childhood, famly, granddaughter, photography, play, postaday, Weekly Photo Challenge: Down | 35 Comments »

Weekly Photo Challenge: Regret

Regret one has to clean up the results of the cold glass jar from the garage placed onto the room temperature countertop.

No photographs of the things I regret having done, or things I haven’t done that I wish I had….the regret of not sending the birthday card in time, not calling on the phone in time, not leaving early enough in the day to be there to say good bye. The disappointment and sorrow of the human kind not in the archives. A true challenge to come up with a response to the challenge.

Fellow bloggers responses to the weekly photo challenge entries are here

Thought this a creative response -you can hear Edith Piaf sing No Regrets on this fellow bloggers WPC: Regret

And Flat Ruthie is 90 miles from Cuba in the Florida Keys if you want to check her out here

February 11, 2012 | Categories: Cooking and Eating, Family, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tags: applesauce, childhood, family, food, kitchen, postaday, weekly photo challenge: regret | 39 Comments »

3 Sleeping After Dinner at Lala’s & See if You Can Find Murphy

Dinner at Lala’s and James’ home. Building with Lego. I’m “grandmaing” the three youngest grandkids this weekend as the eldest is at a swimmeet in Cincinnati. With her parents, of course.

So we watched Laura and James’ wedding video they received this week and Jack and Michael were ring bearers and Anna and Maura flower girls so they liked seeing themselves but then Jack(4) goes in the kitchen at seven and says, ” Could someone please start making dinner!” We were caught up in reliving the November wedding. Laura baked some homemade pizza and I had taken a spinach pie. For dessert I’d made the Farm Journal Blue Ribbon Banana Cake with buttermilk and real butter instead of the shortening the recipe calls for.

We piled into the van and I drove home and barely a block away and all three kids fell asleep! When we got home I carried each one in, made a stop with them and then took off their shoes and put them in their beds. I’d sat in the van for a moment when we got into the garage and thought to myself, okay, now what will I do with all of them asleep. Michael really came in on his own power once I got him guided a bit. And Murphy was so excited to accompany the family for the evening.

I didn’t have a plan of what to blog tonight and thought WordPress would have posted the Weekly Photo Challenge by this time but they didn’t and I was “on duty” with the kids so hadn’t thought about what to put up.

Can you see Murphy? He is wide awake.

February 5, 2012 | Categories: Baking, Childhood, Family | Tags: banana cake, childhood, Columbus OH, family, humor, iPhone photography, night photography, postaday, recipe, spinach pie, three kids | 12 Comments »

Happy Groundhog’s Day as One Blog Leaks into Another

We haven’t really had a winter yet so at dawn, if Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, it won’t be surprising to hear there’ll be 6 more weeks of winter. I heard that Punxsutawney schools are closed on February 2nd for Groundhog’s Day. It’s a great holiday to celebrate. No gifts. Thursday night I will serve Groundhog Chicken from the NYTimes, late 1980′s recipe which is browned chicken in orange sauce with ginger, cinnamon, Tabasco and slivered almonds served with CousCous and some garlic green beans. I own cooky cutters in the shapes of Groundhogs, a large and a small, but did not make time to roll dough and cut out cookies to bake.

If you want to watch the Groundhog News or see the Live Webcast, click HERE and if I get a chance I will update what the furry prognosticator declares. UPDATE at 7:20 AM Phil the Groundhog saw his shadow. Six more weeks of winter!!

There is such a wonderful Chicago tour written by Chicago John on the Cardboardmetravels blog that I am not going to bump it off the other blog with today’s groundhog photo. You have read many of his comments on my blog and you may have clicked on his link from the Bartolini Kitchens to read his stories of childhood memory and the preparation of heirloom Italian recipes.

In 1990, three years before Groudhog Day (Bill Murray movie) hit the theaters and everyone had heard about Phil the Groundhog in Punxsutawney, my sister flew out from NYC to Pittsburgh. In the middle of a foggy night, we drove to Punxsutawney for the event. Mary wrote postcards and mailed them so they would have the February 2nd postmark from Punxsutawney. We had a fun day although it was freezing in the woods and all felt a bit strange. You’ve seen Nativity scenes and Santa in yards at Christmas? Well, the residents have GROUNDHOGS on their lawns. Big wooden cutout groundhogs. We experienced the occasion and I guess it could have been something on a bucket list if we had one. Visit Gobbler’s Knob at least once in your life!

So a single post for Groundhog’s Day and here is my Groundhog Folkmanis Puppet holding the original Flat Ruthie in the backyard after school and I will take some license and say he is looking for his shadow? Only problem is the time of day.

Not screaming like Fay Wray did with King Kong

February 2, 2012 | Categories: Light in the City, Pittsburgh Photos | Tags: childhood, family, Flat Ruthie, food, Groundhog Day, Groundhog News, humor, memories, postaday, Punxsutawney PA, shadow, travel, weather | 17 Comments »

Murphy the Airedale Terrier’s Tenth Birthday

You’ve seen him many times on the blog. His endearing personality and stuffed animal appearance make him a satisfying (and willing) subject to photograph. He wants to be in the pictures with the family. I know some readers are not “dog people” but Murphy is an important member of the family and I know they will enjoy telling him he is “on the blog”!

The recent Weekly Photo Challenge: Peaceful, featured Murph under a shade tree in Hardy, VA and he was on earlier today, being patient as Anna and Maura put sock monkeys on his back.

I didn’t give him proper recognition for his TENTH birthday which is TODAY! January 24th!!

My sister sent the hat and bone from NYC and I photographed him on Saturday with his birthday treat.

I said,” Whatcha doin’ Murph?” and he stopped gnawing and looked up at me, so tolerant of old Grandma and her camera lens, frequently pointed in his direction.

An early post before Midnight so it is ON the day, not belated. Happy Birthday Murphy.

January 24, 2012 | Categories: Airedale Terrier, Childhood | Tags: airedale terrier, childhood, dog, family, humor, photography | 34 Comments »

New Year’s Eve @ Columbus Zoo Lights

Available light photography at night is my challenge. I find it fun but not always easy. The one family shot I lit the family with the flashlight app from the iPhone so I could get some light on their faces. It was chilly but not bitter. We saw a rhinoceros, the tiger pacing, a sleeping polar bear but mostly it was the colored lights on every tree and branch, some reflected in a pool of water. My son Mark and his wife Erika, the four grandchildren(Anna, Michael, Jack and Maura), my DIL’s cousin Shannon who is like a sister to her and her daughter Parker were all willing to stand still in the lights as I tried to focus quickly. We had a lot of fun.

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Cardboard Me Travels to PORTLAND Oregon

January 1, 2012 | Categories: Family | Tags: available light, childhood, Columbus OH, Columbus Zoo Lights, family, New Year's Eve, night photography, photography, zoo | 25 Comments »

3 Year Old Salts Her Popcorn

You have to be vigilant. Pay attention, non-stop. We were all in the same room, together.

No one saw her with the salt shaker. Gone wild.

But I had to photograph it when I noticed it in the morning as we cleaned up after movie night. Hers was the pink bowl. The morning light through the back door caught the colors.

This just in- I had dinner in Arkansas and looks like good luck will be with me in 2012 as I am chowing down on some Black Eyed Peas. ”Cardboard me” showed up in Greg and Katherine’s kitchen. Check it out on their blog here

December 30, 2011 | Categories: Childhood, Cooking and Eating, Family | Tags: childhood, cooking, eating, family, food, grandchild, humor, popcorn, postaday2011, salt | 8 Comments »

Reader Appreciation & Anna Entertains Her Siblings With Mr. Sock Monkey

Award your top 6 bloggers who have commented the most ( my frequent commenters don’t all have blogs but are good friends around the world who check out the daily photo and write nice comments on the blog- Thanks you to all readers for following the blog!)
Be thankful. (Thank you Chicago John at fromBartolini Kitchens who nominated me for this award. Wonderful intelligent writing evoking memories of growing up and what was prepared and eaten. He also writes the best comments but I can’t send this award back to him!)
You cannot award someone who has already been awarded. And you cannot give the award back to me. (Okay, that eliminates Greg and Katherine at Rufus Food and Spirits Guide, as Chicago John awarded them too but they write great comments, too!)
Don’t forget to tell the bloggers you’ve awarded. ( I had better hurry up and do that before I post, YIKES!)
If you don’t want to pass on this award, that’s okay to. Just admire it-
and unable to copy and paste the award symbol I am posting a reasonable facsimile
My Reader Appreciation Award Shot in Joan's Garden

Six Readers Whom I Appreciate- Be sure to check out their blogs!

1.implicado see the Poinsettias in Mexico and other cool photos shot by Cedric.

2.smilekiddo Spreading happy faces found EVERYWHERE from a swing set to the pavement. Now I see them, too. There is so much more than that summation but check out Stef’s blog.

3. watchingnolanature If you want a walk in the swamp or a hike in the wood with stunning nature photography check out Carla’s blog. If you live in the north and want to feel warmer head to NOLA.

4. thirdhand art Theresa has a photography blog and is a regular reader and commenter.

5. mark goodwin photography - a photography blogger based in Wales

6. goofy runner my sweet daughter who writes hundreds of comments on the blog. You saw her wedding on my blog recently.

Had to keep up with my daily photo post effort as 2011 comes to a close. Maybe not the clearest shot but I came upon this scene in the kitchen this morning. I made the sock monkey for Anna when she was small and the arms look like they need a little plastic surgery by the seamstress. Anna asked if I could make a PINK sock monkey and would you believe I found the Rockford, red heel socks in PINK and ordered them today. If you need a pair you can order here at Supersockmonkey.

It is great when they ignore me with a camera! Jack still sporting his Superman Cape

December 29, 2011 | Categories: Childhood, Family | Tags: available light, childhood, family, humor, kitchen, postaday2011, sock monkey | 21 Comments »

Watching a Movie

It was camp-out night in the living room. Watching the Smurf Movie.

December 28, 2011 | Categories: Childhood, Family | Tags: available light, childhood, Columbus OH, grandchildren, photography, postaday2011 | 19 Comments »

Living proof about the box it came in….

It wasn't that he didn't like the Lincoln Logs but needed someone to help build with him and we were setting the table and making breakfast.

This looks set up but it is as it happened. The first shot a blur with his brother and this one the clearer image but Michael caught me with the camera catching him playing in the box the Lincoln Logs came in-

classic, cliche, you’ve heard it a hundred times but his mom alerted me to witness the occurrence. Loving playing in the BOX!

Later he and his dad built a log cabin and fence but it’s going to take quiet concentration and a day with less activity to master Lincoln Log building skills.

December 26, 2011 | Categories: Childhood, Family | Tags: childhood, Christmas, family, Lincoln Logs, photography, play, postaday2011, toy | 16 Comments »

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