Just One More

Sorry, I just can't stop..these have to be some of my favorites ever. :0)



Off to pick up the kid's.

TTYL!!

WOO-HOO For Dilapitated Buildings

Dilapidated, textured, rusted, chippy painted, all these words are like sweet music to my ears.
Crazy, I know, but when I drive down the road and see this in a huge open field with the good side {not overrun by bushes and weeds} facing the west, I gotta have me some a' that.



Cuz before I even take out the camera and take that first click I already have "the vision" and I already know how to make that vision a reality...



You know how sometimes you click the shutter and you just *know* that is the "one"?
Then you look on the view finder and your for sure it is the favorite?
Then you upload to your 24 inch HD monitor {I am so totally in love my monitor} and you darn near fall out your chair cuz if there is only one picture that comes out of the whole day, that is the one.

Well, this was my "one"....



This was shot only minutes before the sun went down. I can honestly say that I will patiently wait all day for that few minutes to get out and shoot because the warm glow that covers everything cannot be duplicated no matter how many expensive lights one buys or how much a Photoshop genius.
Natural sweet light baby, there is nothing like it.



Same picture in B&W....



And just one more {for today} from the blue and yellow building...



I love that green building so much, I may have to take our Christmas pictures there.
See..I am getting into Christmas, kind of...sort of..a little at a time. :0)

Have a great day everyone!!

PS. Sheila, what in tarnations is a "burning bush?" Hehe....

30 Minutes Till Sunset

Yesterday at around 5 o'clock Karlio transported Kolin and me down the road for a quick photo session.
Every so once in a while, I love taking just one kid out at a time and snapping a few.
Since I don't buy school pictures, I still like to keep in the memory box/noggin what they were like at say for example, Kolin at 12 years old and in the 6th grade.
It's all about the attitude, but equally important is the crazy silliness that comes with being the youngest.

OK..truth be told, I bought him that "Fedora" from Target last week and I wanted pic's done in it, badly. LOL!
I love fedora's A LOT!

The location is a closed down car fixing place that is just a mile down the road. It's right across the street from the gator pond.
It's small but bright.
Sometimes it's all about finding that tiny little spot that otherwise you might drive by 6 times a day and give it no thought.
I had my eye on that spot since the first day we moved in. :0)

Anyway, here's a few out of 79. LOL, yeah you read that right.

I love the way his hair is flying cuz of the breeze that came through at exactly the time I clicked.







On the other side of this building is the back way of a small strip mall of assorted stores that have mostly been closed.
While I was snapping away, Karlio struck up a conversation with a couple who were working on a tattoo shop that was opening in that building next week.
We were invited in to look around but since I had 15 minutes of good light left and another building to bother closer to home, we had to decline at the time.
However, we are going to go back cuz this Mama...oh, she is dyin' for another tattoo soon.
Tattoos are scrumptious and I don't care what anybody says. hehe....
I am keeping my fingers crossed maybe they might want to exchange some photographs for their new place for a small tattoo of....
Oh, well, I can't give everything away, can I?
LOL...it will be very kool with a lot of deep meaning to it when it gets done, that's for sure.

More Kolin pictures to come with a "pull back" shot of the next location.
I'll get a pull back of these too, I just forgot to yesterday.

Have a beautiful day everyone!!

Later Gator

Right down the road from us lives a little pond. In that little pond lives a little gator. He's awful cute, as far as reptiles go anyway.

Look at him just posing away.....



Oh, lookie how he likes to swim after having his picture taken, they simply don't get much more adorable then that...



Wow, he's swimming towards something....ummmm, wait hold up one minute, he's swimming towards, ahhhh....me!



It was right about now when I said to myself..."Self, now would probably be a very good time to mosey on outta here"
And so I did.
End of story. :0)

Rivets

Cuz Halloween's not over till the snow falls. Guess that would be year round for me. :0)



Stock photo by almudena-stock
Manipulated by, who else? Me!
fyi, yes that's my duo colored peeper. Unique? Yes. Odd? Definitely! hehe....

It's another gorgeous day here in Central Florida so I guess I'll head out for a bit and get a mile or two of walking time before my day gets ridiculously insane.

Have a wonderful day everyone!!

Don't Mess With The Mask

Yesterday I asked Kaysha to help me out with organizing Kolin's room a bit so her stuff can get put away instead of left out on the closet floor.
It is bad enough for some crazy reason the designer of this house decided closet doors weren't necessary, which leaves me having to look at "closet stuff" every time I walk into K&K's room's, but adding to it leaves it cluttered looking and if there is one this in this world that gets on my very last nerve...it is clutter.

So, anyway....she does what I ask her to do and when I walk in his room a little while later to put some of his laundry away, I find Kolin's beloved Michael Myers mask looking like this...



And all I could think of was "Oh she is gonna get her butt whooped for that".

And then he came home from school.
And then he walked into his room.
And then Kaysha tried to run.
But, she didn't get far cuz lil' man is fast. Very, Very, VERY fast.

Poor girl....



Still, he finds time to smile for the camera...how stinkin' cute.



The moral of this story is...

"Don't Ever, EVER Mess With The Mask".

Have a great day all!!

PS. FYI, Kaysha was not hurt or beaten in any way. It's just a sibling thing, done with love and laughs. Really, he actually thought it was funny....well, after the shock of seeing his favorite horror movie killer mask in pink hater blockers and a suma wrestler looking pony tail anyway. :0)

Autumn Pumpkin

"Autumn begins with a subtle change in the light, with skies
a deeper blue, and nights that become suddenly clear and
chilled. The season comes full with the first frost, the
disappearance of migrant birds, and the harvesting of
the season's last crops."
- Glenn Wolff and Jerry Dennis -



All the Halloween deco. got put up yesterday and because I don't have a whole lot of "Turkey Day" stuff, the house she's a lookin' kind of...boring.
Hmmmm.....gotta fix that real soon.

I am soooo not looking forward to December. Guess I have never really been the holly jolly Christmas person.
Oh I'll get through it alright for the kids but our tree goes up the weekend before and it comes down by Jan. 1st. Sooner if I can help it. Luckily for me, I married someone who 100% agrees with that rule. LOL!

I really think it is because of all the "buy me" and the "let the competition of cooler a/k/a out of the ball park expensive, kids gifts begin" hoopla that goes with the holiday. IMHO, if three gifts were good enough for Jesus, who's birthday we are celebrating anyway, then why shouldn't three gifts be good enough for everyone else?
In our home, there really are very little {OK, like just about none} "Santa Claus" type decorations. I am however, leaning towards the whole deers and trees lit up by white lights only for the front yard.
Don't get me wrong here, I mean I want to celebrate and all, I just don't want to go sickeningly ga-ga over the top with the whole rosy cheeked, chubby, big red jacket wearing guy.

With me it's either hot, tropical, bright colors of summer or the still pretty hot here, orange/black/purple colors, dark side of Halloween.
I was in Target on Tuesday, just floating around looking at all the Halloween clearance stuff and right next to it was isles and isles and cheery, happy Christmas stuff.
As much as I did enjoy checking out the ornament section, the music....dang, too much for me.
I did however, find lots of ornaments with the word "Hope" {my favorite word in the world} on them.
Maybe, just maybe there will be some Christmasy shopping in my future. If only they'd turn down that mindless, endless, continuing loops of Santa Claus is coming to town music. :0)

Well everyone, I have got to get going. Another day, lots to accomplish.

Hoping everyone has a really great day today!!