Upcoming 4-H Photo Contest (Help me pick a picture)

I hope all of y'all Christmas and New Year were fabulous! Ah, it seems like I haven't posted in a year... (Okay, enough with the non-funny puns!) Now onto business. The 4-H Photo Competition is coming up. And...mom wants me to get ready for it. I need to pick 1 picture for each category in the competition. I'll just do one category at a time for the sake of uploading time. All of these can be found on my Flickr by clicking on them. Today's category is animals (And I have no idea why they have blue frames on them...) The numbers go to the picture below them. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Botanical Gardens

In the botanical gardens today. We saw: (all photos were taken today by me at the botanical gardens) ... benches... ...flowers...

... a stinkbug...

... a rose garden...

... water lily's...

...biting fish (THAT, was fun)...

... more flowers...

... a lake...

... water puddles...

... flowers (Isn't it great?!)... ...flowers (it's what the Botanical Gardens are supposed to have, right?)... ...statues... ... fruit ladden trees...

... light...

I had a wonderful time just going and taking pictures. We also went to CiCi's afterward which was a humongous plus!! Yayy! I do have some more pictures, so, check my Photography Blog for more. sourpatch

Canoing

See Rachel's Blog for an update on what happened at our canoe trip yesterday. I'm too tired to speak much now, but for Miky, Sakura, and Brooklyn, there's a site I found with a photography contest on it. The address is: http://www.quantum-leap strategies.com/photo_contest/photo_contest.html. Amatuer photographers are welcome, too. The prize is $250 dollars that is awarded to a single person monthly. You can enter pictures every week, but not more than that, or your disqualifed. sourpatch

My Photography Blog

Check my photography blog, Photography: An Empty Canvas, for new pictures! Remember to comment! I enjoy your input. sourpatch

Daily Life

So.... this morning, we had another IBLP class by Bill Gothard. I have really enjoyed taking the class, and have learned much from it. We have another 3 hours left that we plan to do the following Friday. ~ After that, we had some lunch (left over pizza from last night), and drove over to sewing an photography group. For sewing, we all made little pouches. Here is the tutorial: Twelve22.org. They were really, really fun to put together, and a great way to start the sewing group on zippers. The pouch is lined on the inside with brown swirl fabric. Here are some pictures:

(Sorry this picture is so blurry, I couldn't get my camera to focus.)

Although, much to my intense disapointment, photography was canceled because of the rain. We were going to go to a cemetary and take some pictures there. The storming was kind of scary; there was, "purple lightning" on the radar. That means solid sheets of lightning.

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Although we did top the day off by going to Jim N' Nicks BBQ for dinner. Rachel and I split a bacon cheeseburger. Plain, of course. It was scruptious!! Zach had a good time with ribs. I bet you can just imagine the nasty fingers....

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Right now, we're making a scrapbook page for the party of a graduating senior. She's moving to Ohio for college, so I don't think we're going to be seeing her anytime soon. Signin' off ~ sourpatch

My Photo Blog...

...is now open. You can go look at my pictures at: Photography: An Empty Canvas. I forgot to tell ya'll that the other day, Rachel and I went out to an orphan organization and sorted food. The food was donated by churches and other large organizations. That is my favorite service project of the year. All the food is in bins lined up on tables in the gym. We take shopping carts around and gather one "type" of food. (i.e. All the popcorn, etc.) You'd be surprised at how many weird things people donate. Like sardines, or chowchow. sourpatch

My Photography Blog

I just started my new photography blog. For people like MSM and others who are interested in photography. I just recently went on a photo spree; check it out here: Photography: An Empty Canvas.

My Busy Life

So I haven't posted in a couple of days, I feel bad, it's like a link is missing in my life.... Before I start with the ramblings, "Lewsakura" told me about his website where you look at vocabuluary words and then choose the meaning. Every time you get one right, you "donate" 20 grains of rice to poor people that don't have any food. The rice is supplied by some company. It's a great, fun way to help out. Here's the site: Free Rice. So a couple of days ago, I lost 2 spacers, so we had to go get them replaced. I cried then, too; I feel like saying to myself, "Snap out of it!" I had bowling the other day; so I got to see Jessica's music playing device! It's really nice; and I love the color! It seems like at the start of the year, I was better at bowling, now things are going downhill. Jessica's bowling has improved a lot though! High scores for you! Then on Thursday, we had a packed day with the Physical science, "Newton Derby" starting the day off. I got second place on my car. The one that I took a picture of, isn't the one I ended up using after all. The one I used was a "two story", with room for 2 balloons! Therefore, going farther, because it has more force behind it. I won second place in all categories: speed, distance, & time. Michaela (a classmate), won first, Lewsakura won third, and the only boy in the class, Dylan, won 4th. We also had pizza, cake, and a little "pop" to top it off. Then after that, mom raced Zach off to archery while Rachel was quickly whisked to Honor Society, which we later learned was canceled. Zach did well in archery, hitting a "bulls eye" the first shot. They don't call them bulls eyes, they have some fancy name, but that's what they are. Then Rachel had clogging, of which she enjoys thoroughly. Although she does refuse to give me a demonstration on the art of it all. We need to go watch her sometime.... Today, we had the IBLP class this morning, which lasted a long time. We raced home and got our sewing machine stuff. On the way there, I picked up some pictures that I ordered from the Internet to Walgreen's. At sewing this afternoon, I finished my 2nd teddy bear, but it turned out too horrible to show! Major problems; non-fixable. Then, we had photography. The whole group is doing a scrapbook for the 4-H Club. We all brought pictures and each put together one or two scrapbook pages. That was fun as well. I enjoy making things like that. I myself have a scrapbook, but haven't put much new in it for the past couple of years. I should take that up again.... Afterwards, Mom, Rachel, and I went to Applebees with some lifelong friends of ours. That was very enjoyable. Something wonderful happened: I discovered the bacon cheeseburger. Delish! So my time is running out on the computer, I'll wrap it up here, but not before saying good night to all! Don't let the bed bugs bite, and if they do, get a shoe, and beat them black and blue! 'Til next time ~ sourpatch :)